"Now, surrounded by sobbing students, Jun-sang wondered: If everybody else felt such genuine love for Kim Il-sung and he did not, how would he possibly fit in? He had been contemplating his own reaction, or lack thereof, with an intellectual detachment, but suddenly he was gripped with fear. He was alone, completely alone in his indifference. He always thought he had close friends at the university, but now he realized he didn’t know them at all. And certainly they didn’t know him. If they did, he would be in trouble. This revelation was quickly followed by another, equally momentous: his entire future depended on his ability to cry. Not just his career and his membership in the Workers’ Party, his very survival was at stake. It was a matter of life and death. Jun-sang was terrified. At first, he kept his head down so nobody could see his eyes. Then he figured out that if he kept his eyes open long enough, they would burn and tear up. It was like a staring contest. Stare. Cry. Stare. Cry.Eventually, it became mechanical. The body took over where the mind left off and suddenly he was really crying. He felt himself falling to his knees, rocking back and forth, sobbing just like everyone else. Nobody would be the wiser.” (Demick 98, 99)
PASSAGE ONE CLOSE READING
1.) This rhetorical question serves to demonstrate and explain Jun-sang's internal struggle. 2.) Negative connotation, also conveys the frightened nature of the passage as a whole. 3.) The short syntax here serves to add emphasis to the danger of Jun-sang's situation and to establish the significance of the predicament Jun-sang found himself in. 4.) The snytax here shows how frantic and desperate Jun-sang was in this situation, because he knew that if he didn't respond to the situation quickly and correctly, it could result in dire consequences. 5.) This metaphor accentuates the false nature of Jun-sang's mourning. 6.) The playful tone of this sentence contrasts with the drearier tone of the rest of the passage and highlights the mix of emotions that Jun-sang is experiencing.
DOUBLE TIQA ANALYSIS ONE
In Nothing to Envy, Barbara Demick uses negative connotation in Jun-sang's internal monologue to express how in situations where a ruler has too much power, people may be forced to conform to the rules of that leader in order to ensure their own survival. Following the death of Kim Il-sung, Jun-sang noticed that he wasn't as grief-stricken as the other citizens surrounding him. This knowledge made him realize, "his entire future depended on his ability to cry. Not just his career and his membership in the Workers’ Party, his very survival was at stake. It was a matter of life and death."(Demick 98) Kim Il-sung's power over North Korea had risen from those of an ordinary leader to a god-like status, and so when Jun-sang discovered that he wasn't crying over the death of Kim Il-sung, he realized that were he to be discovered by anybody else among the crowd, he would most likely be turned over to the authories and forced to spend the remainder of his life being treated as a traitor. Demick uses the phrase "matter of life and death" to show how serious and bad of a situation Jun-sang found himself in and how scared he was. Desperate to find a way out his perilious situation Jun-sang did the only thing that he could think of, "Stare. Cry. Eventually, it became mechanical. The body took over where the mind left off and suddenly he was really crying. He felt himself falling to his knees, rocking back and forth, sobbing just like everyone else. Nobody would be the wiser.” (Demick 99) In order to not stand out from the rest of the citizens and to keep from getting into trouble, Jun-sang forced himself to cry. Even though Jun-sang wasn't upset over the death of Kim Il-sung, he knew that the only way he was going to keep living the privileged life he had always had was to cry like everybody else. Jun-sang forcing himself to cry in order to blend in with the group shows how people can forced to consent to the rules of a powerful ruler to secure their chances of survival.
"Manolo and Minerva have explained everything. A national underground is forming. Everyone and everything has a code name. Manolo is Enriquillo, after the great Taino chieftain, and Minerva, of course, is Mariposa. If I were to say tennis shoes, you'd know we were talking about ammunition. The pineapples for the picnic are the grenades. The goat must die for us to eat at the picnic. (Get it? It's like a trick language.) There are groups all over the island. It turns out Palomino (the man last night) is really an engineer working on projects throughout the country, so he's the natural to do the traveling and deliveries between groups. I told Minerva and Manolo right out, I wanted to join. I could feel my breath coming short with the excitement of it all. But I masked it in front of Minerva. I was afraid she'd get all protective and say that I could be just as useful sewing bandages to put in the suppply boxes to be buried in the mountains. I don't want to be babied anymore. I want to be worthy of Palomino. Suddenly, all the boys I've known with soft hands and easy lives seem like the pretty dolls I've outgrown and passed on to Minou. I've lost all interest in my studies. I just go to classes in order to keep my cover as a second-year architecture student. My true identity now is Mariposa (#2), waiting daily, hourly, for communications from up north." (Alvarez 142, 143)
PASSAGE TWO CLOSE READING
1.) In Spanish, the word "mariposa" means "butterfly". Butterflies are creatures that tend to fly around freely and go wherever they choose. Minerva has always been a person who wanted nothing more than to be free and joining the revolution against Trujillo gave her a chance to do that someday. The name could've also been chosen for her, because she would be a person who led those that followed her to freedom. 2.) "The goat" is a code name for the dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo. The word "die", on its own, already has a negative connotation and the addition of the word "must" intensifies the negativity of the word "die". The phrase altogether shows how strongly the people involved in the revolution feel against the Trujillo's rule. 3.) This is a metaphor with "picnic" referring to a free country and the whole phrase referring to how the Dominicans can live freely in their country without a dictator once Trujillo is gone. 4.) This sentence is shorter than most of the surrounding sentences and this short syntax adds a sort of seriousness to the tone of the following sentences. 5.) This similie serves to how hard Palomino is working for the revolution and for himself in order not to get caught by Trujillo or his officers. The "soft hands" on the other boys is an indication that they probably never had to make any extremely difficult decisions in their lives but Palomino most likely had and continues to do so.
DOUBLE TIQA ANALYSIS TWO
In In the Time of the Butterflies, the word choice chosen by Julia Alvarez shows just how far some people will go in response to a leader with too much power. While living with Minerva and her husband, Maria Teresa (Mate) answers the door to a stranger with a box and upon opening the box finds what she refers to as "enough guns to start a revolution." (Alvarez 142) In the morning, Mate confronts Minerva about the box, "Manolo and Minerva have explained everything. A national underground is forming." (Alvarez 142) In response to the way Rafael Trujillo was leading his country, many people were secretly gathering underground to overthrow him. Trujillo was abusing his power in the Dominican Republic because of the high authority he had many of the people didn't like the way he was ruling them. Although some people were too afraid of Trujillo to do anything but follow his orders, many others were secretly gathering and plotting a way to put an end to Trujillo's reign. The words that Alvarez used in this sentence, and the format of the sentence itself, give it a sort of nonchalance tone as if the formation of a rebellion isn't anything serious, and therefore drawing more attention to the sentence. Not many are brave enough to join a rebellion, even it is secret, and the fact that Minerva is a part of it shows her determination to put a stop to Trujillo's abuse of power. Alvarez's choice of words is especially effective in showing the importance of the rebellion when Mate is being taught the code words used by the members of the rebellion. As Minerva and Manolo are explaining everything to Maria Teresa, she learns the meaning of the code words that rebellion members use, "The goat must die for us to eat at the picnic." (Alvarez 142) The goat in this case refers to Trujillo and the members of the rebellion are planning to kill him, meaning people don't just want to overthrow him, they want him dead so that there's no possible way for him to retaliate. Trujillo had abused the amount of power he had over the citizens in the Dominican Republic so much that the people who are willing to stand up believe the only way for their country to achieve freedom for all its citizens is to assassinate the person who is chaining the country down in the first place. Julia Alvarez's use of the word "must" signifies and intensifies the necessity the members of the rebellion must feel to end Trujillo's life.
Passage One:
"Now, surrounded by sobbing students, Jun-sang wondered: If everybody else felt such genuine love for Kim Il-sung and he did not, how would he possibly fit in? He had been contemplating his own reaction, or lack thereof, with an intellectual detachment, but suddenly he was gripped with fear. He was alone, completely alone in his indifference. He always thought he had close friends at the university, but now he realized he didn’t know them at all. And certainly they didn’t know him. If they did, he would be in trouble. This revelation was quickly followed by another, equally momentous: his entire future depended on his ability to cry. Not just his career and his membership in the Workers’ Party, his very survival was at stake. It was a matter of life and death. Jun-sang was terrified. At first, he kept his head down so nobody could see his eyes. Then he figured out that if he kept his eyes open long enough, they would burn and tear up. It was like a staring contest. Stare. Cry. Stare. Cry. Eventually, it became mechanical. The body took over where the mind left off and suddenly he was really crying. He felt himself falling to his knees, rocking back and forth, sobbing just like everyone else. Nobody would be the wiser.” (Demick 98, 99)
PASSAGE ONE CLOSE READING
1.) This rhetorical question serves to demonstrate and explain Jun-sang's internal struggle.
2.) Negative connotation, also conveys the frightened nature of the passage as a whole.
3.) The short syntax here serves to add emphasis to the danger of Jun-sang's situation and to establish the significance of the predicament Jun-sang found himself in.
4.) The snytax here shows how frantic and desperate Jun-sang was in this situation, because he knew that if he didn't respond to the situation quickly and correctly, it could result in dire consequences.
5.) This metaphor accentuates the false nature of Jun-sang's mourning.
6.) The playful tone of this sentence contrasts with the drearier tone of the rest of the passage and highlights the mix of emotions that Jun-sang is experiencing.
DOUBLE TIQA ANALYSIS ONE
In Nothing to Envy, Barbara Demick uses negative connotation in Jun-sang's internal monologue to express how in situations where a ruler has too much power, people may be forced to conform to the rules of that leader in order to ensure their own survival. Following the death of Kim Il-sung, Jun-sang noticed that he wasn't as grief-stricken as the other citizens surrounding him. This knowledge made him realize, "his entire future depended on his ability to cry. Not just his career and his membership in the Workers’ Party, his very survival was at stake. It was a matter of life and death."(Demick 98) Kim Il-sung's power over North Korea had risen from those of an ordinary leader to a god-like status, and so when Jun-sang discovered that he wasn't crying over the death of Kim Il-sung, he realized that were he to be discovered by anybody else among the crowd, he would most likely be turned over to the authories and forced to spend the remainder of his life being treated as a traitor. Demick uses the phrase "matter of life and death" to show how serious and bad of a situation Jun-sang found himself in and how scared he was. Desperate to find a way out his perilious situation Jun-sang did the only thing that he could think of, "Stare. Cry. Eventually, it became mechanical. The body took over where the mind left off and suddenly he was really crying. He felt himself falling to his knees, rocking back and forth, sobbing just like everyone else. Nobody would be the wiser.” (Demick 99) In order to not stand out from the rest of the citizens and to keep from getting into trouble, Jun-sang forced himself to cry. Even though Jun-sang wasn't upset over the death of Kim Il-sung, he knew that the only way he was going to keep living the privileged life he had always had was to cry like everybody else. Jun-sang forcing himself to cry in order to blend in with the group shows how people can forced to consent to the rules of a powerful ruler to secure their chances of survival.
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Passage Two:
"Manolo and Minerva have explained everything. A national underground is forming. Everyone and everything has a code name. Manolo is Enriquillo, after the great Taino chieftain, and Minerva, of course, is Mariposa. If I were to say tennis shoes, you'd know we were talking about ammunition. The pineapples for the picnic are the grenades. The goat must die for us to eat at the picnic. (Get it? It's like a trick language.) There are groups all over the island. It turns out Palomino (the man last night) is really an engineer working on projects throughout the country, so he's the natural to do the traveling and deliveries between groups. I told Minerva and Manolo right out, I wanted to join. I could feel my breath coming short with the excitement of it all. But I masked it in front of Minerva. I was afraid she'd get all protective and say that I could be just as useful sewing bandages to put in the suppply boxes to be buried in the mountains. I don't want to be babied anymore. I want to be worthy of Palomino. Suddenly, all the boys I've known with soft hands and easy lives seem like the pretty dolls I've outgrown and passed on to Minou. I've lost all interest in my studies. I just go to classes in order to keep my cover as a second-year architecture student. My true identity now is Mariposa (#2), waiting daily, hourly, for communications from up north." (Alvarez 142, 143)
PASSAGE TWO CLOSE READING
1.) In Spanish, the word "mariposa" means "butterfly". Butterflies are creatures that tend to fly around freely and go wherever they choose. Minerva has always been a person who wanted nothing more than to be free and joining the revolution against Trujillo gave her a chance to do that someday. The name could've also been chosen for her, because she would be a person who led those that followed her to freedom.
2.) "The goat" is a code name for the dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo. The word "die", on its own, already has a negative connotation and the addition of the word "must" intensifies the negativity of the word "die". The phrase altogether shows how strongly the people involved in the revolution feel against the Trujillo's rule.
3.) This is a metaphor with "picnic" referring to a free country and the whole phrase referring to how the Dominicans can live freely in their country without a dictator once Trujillo is gone.
4.) This sentence is shorter than most of the surrounding sentences and this short syntax adds a sort of seriousness to the tone of the following sentences.
5.) This similie serves to how hard Palomino is working for the revolution and for himself in order not to get caught by Trujillo or his officers. The "soft hands" on the other boys is an indication that they probably never had to make any extremely difficult decisions in their lives but Palomino most likely had and continues to do so.
DOUBLE TIQA ANALYSIS TWO
In In the Time of the Butterflies, the word choice chosen by Julia Alvarez shows just how far some people will go in response to a leader with too much power. While living with Minerva and her husband, Maria Teresa (Mate) answers the door to a stranger with a box and upon opening the box finds what she refers to as "enough guns to start a revolution." (Alvarez 142) In the morning, Mate confronts Minerva about the box, "Manolo and Minerva have explained everything. A national underground is forming." (Alvarez 142) In response to the way Rafael Trujillo was leading his country, many people were secretly gathering underground to overthrow him. Trujillo was abusing his power in the Dominican Republic because of the high authority he had many of the people didn't like the way he was ruling them. Although some people were too afraid of Trujillo to do anything but follow his orders, many others were secretly gathering and plotting a way to put an end to Trujillo's reign. The words that Alvarez used in this sentence, and the format of the sentence itself, give it a sort of nonchalance tone as if the formation of a rebellion isn't anything serious, and therefore drawing more attention to the sentence. Not many are brave enough to join a rebellion, even it is secret, and the fact that Minerva is a part of it shows her determination to put a stop to Trujillo's abuse of power. Alvarez's choice of words is especially effective in showing the importance of the rebellion when Mate is being taught the code words used by the members of the rebellion. As Minerva and Manolo are explaining everything to Maria Teresa, she learns the meaning of the code words that rebellion members use, "The goat must die for us to eat at the picnic." (Alvarez 142) The goat in this case refers to Trujillo and the members of the rebellion are planning to kill him, meaning people don't just want to overthrow him, they want him dead so that there's no possible way for him to retaliate. Trujillo had abused the amount of power he had over the citizens in the Dominican Republic so much that the people who are willing to stand up believe the only way for their country to achieve freedom for all its citizens is to assassinate the person who is chaining the country down in the first place. Julia Alvarez's use of the word "must" signifies and intensifies the necessity the members of the rebellion must feel to end Trujillo's life.