Reaction Paperâ€Nonfiction Essay

When run downing I came across some interesting non-fiction leg force out and letter written by well known pens. They were tout ensemble dangerous but there was two that I had the most reaction to. When I came across these two letters I mat like I had a connection with the author. The letter redemption by Langston Huge, when I read could relate to it ca use of goods and services I to come from a christen background, and in the figment by Lam about his m an separate(prenominal) I felt like keeping family tradition should always remain I a person livelihood. So I thought it would be heartfelt to apologize my reaction in detail by stating the strategies, themes and what makes these non-fiction stories. In the story Who forget Light the Incense When Mothers Gone by Andrew Lam, the author Lam give the ref a personal account of his life. go at a birthday party for his mother who was turning seventy, he overheard his mother ask his aunt, Who testament light the cense we Im g one? This was a traditional thing that see did, the light of the incense was done to acknowledged the dead, and to talk to them and ask for financial aid from them.He indeed struggles with himself wondering why he doesnt feel the need to take to continue this life longsighted tradition. When looking through this story I found out that Lam used biographic system to help the read fully witness his point of view. With this strategy lam was equal to give the reader an indebt description of what it was like for him growing up, as a young Americanized Vietnamese man. He make mention that his mom often ask him to speak their native tongue, when he was a teen. His response was what good is it to speak it? It non like Im going to use it when I move out. At end of the story the read is left(p) with mixed emotion, will he ein truth commit to his families tradition and immortalizetime to light the incense or will he continue to pull through his life the same he always has. When r endering the story Salvation by Langston Hughes I thing that he withal used the strategy biographic criticism, which he uses to explain to the reader how he feels about his childhood conversion.As he goes through his story he used this strategy as a base in which to convey to the reader the task he had growing up. In the story he was twelve and was fighting(a) in his aunts church revival. It was the last day of the revival, which meant that the callowness of the church was to be relieve. During the days leading up to this event, his aunt tells him that to be saved he will see a light and delivery boy appear and then he will be saved. He and the other youth was brought to the front of the church, Langston never saw Jesus and was pleasured to be saved. He explains to the reader that he was not sure what he was feeling. At the end of this story he explains that this event that he went through was a solitary(a) one. He is then seen crying and his aunt again blames it on him be ing saved but Hughes says it was because he lied to God and to his aunt. This form of pen is seen throughout the whole story.The fact that is a form of biography show the reader a part of himself that otherwise would not been seen. While reading Who Will light The Incense When Mother Gone by Andrew Lam, I had several different type of felling. The way lam tell the story about mother and his family traditions, made guess and try to relate to twain him and his mother. In some way I could relate to Lam, I the youngest of phoebe bird and in some sense my family had some tradition. Although ar way wasnt as intense as Lam and his family. It was too driven by religion. I grow up in a christen family with my fuck off being a preacher. So I would begin to attend church almost three times a day. During the summer I would go to church base camps. It was like a routine every year. As I grown older I started to form my own stem about life, and with this new found freedom I was able to peck what church I wanted to attend on Sunday, I also didnt have to go at all.So as I stop going my d Dad would pressure even to a greater extent to live the life he wanted. Even now I go to church, but I often thing it is because I was told to. On the other hand I can understand where is mother is coming from. I think that Lams mother only want to go along what little bit of her legacy, and when she is gone she knows that there is no hope of that. all(prenominal) sense she moved from Vietnamese her kid had become Americanized and is slowly losing all touch of their heritage. She just wants to know that not all things from her pass will we erased. As for the theme of from Salvation by Langston Hughes, the reaction I had was very personal. I have never been in that type of situation, I have been in places where people was in a sense forced to life changing decision.Like Langston I too attended week long revival, like Langston I was told what to look for and what feeling to expect w hile attendance church. I was a little upset to see the way he was treated in this essay. As a preacher son I to know a lot about religion, and what I read was not the correct approach. To force you believes on any one like that is to me virtuously incorrect. He was told what to feel and see and he failed to see that, so he didnt want to get up, like the other kids. I think that he should have just told his aunt how he felt and it would had saved him a lot of grieve. In these stories one most consider that they are non-fiction, simply for the reason that they are realistic account of the authors lives. Both stories are narrated by the authors themselves, the authors write about certain events conflicts that they two went through at a young age.They then used their originative writing skill to get the reader interested with the subject they were writing on. Although based on a fact or actual experience, some(prenominal) writers have to use their imagination to rewrite their exper iences, to make the feelings or ideas that were take to convey to the readers. The authors have used their skills and styles to capture the audience imagination as the stories go on. Since the reader had not experienced what the author was going through, the authors were challenged to commence the reader into their lives when they were just young men. This was done to help the reader to understand the ages and, mental state of the two authors. On the other hand the reader must also use some sense of imagination to wager the scenes in the stories.