Bitters

This is a way my topic relate to the book Bitter in the Mouth by Monique Truong. One of the main characters is part of the Asian race, and has to go through the typical stereotypes. When Linda was in grade school, she was very smart. When she got to highschool things changed. She thought she would…

where some individuals were living in fear for themselves and their family. Historical lens is how the author describes a certain time period in a way that he or she saw the time period. Jamie Ford is the author of the novel Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet. Jamie Ford wrote the novel based on the time of the Japanese internment camps and seen in the eyes of 12 year old Henry. Ford thought he would write a book about how the Japanese struggled in America because he thought it was…

the experiences of Linda Hammerick, the protagonist of Monique Truong’s Bitter in the Mouth. Amongst her return to Boiling Springs, North Carolina, the correlated nostalgia brings forth an uprising of memories, revelations, and confessions. Her most prominent attribute is her condition of synesthesia. As the novel’s motif, it directs the thoughts that arise amongst these discoveries thus defining the nature of the story. Bitter in the Mouth offers insight on how the…

Our past can forever follow us, like a shadow you can not change or leave. Ultimately, we learn from our past and the events that happened to better ourselves and to learn and adapt. In the book, “Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet” the author, Jamie Ford, uses symbolism to reveal Henry’s father’s troubled past, and how it creates conflict in their relationship. Henry’s father’s past influences the relationship he has with Henry later in the story. Being a Chinese nationalist he strongly…

The article, ‘The Bitter Truth About Sugar’ written by Dr. Robert H. Lustig in Dear Doctor gives awareness to people that the avalanche of sugar in the food supply causes them to get fatter and sicker. Dr Robert H. Lustig received his medical degree from Cornell University Medical College in 1980. After three years, he completed his pediatric residency at St. Louis Children’s Hospital in 1983, and his clinical fellowship at the University of California, San Francisco in 1984. He spent six years…

The amount of sugar consumed impacts our health and brings the risk of diseases. Sarah Richards, the author of “The Bitter Truth about Sugar and Its Effects on Our Health”, is more effective in persuading the audience to consider the factors of health. This is more effective because it should effect the audience enough to consider changing their diet. For the abundance of sugar that we as humans consume, health issues certainly find their way to impact us. I believe that with the amount of…

to acknowledge it, hateful relationships are an important part of who we are, as are all relationships in a person’s life. The relationships one has in their life can change them and mold them into who they are. In the novel, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, by Jamie Ford, a common theme that occurs in the novel is that relationships shape a person into who they are. The first relationship that shapes…

surroundings. Sugar also is incredibly sweet. It sweetens the bitter things in life. Sugar relieves pain and improves one’s mood. Coffee, on the other hand, is a bitter drink. Coffee, having a dark and opaque color, represents the malicious minds in all of us. When sugar is sprinkled into the coffee, the taste becomes sweeter—just like how sweet people always help our society and enlighten the world. I am amazed at how sweet people almost never become bitter and how they can control their…

cabbage, while others may not handle the bitter taste associated with them. In reality, perception of bitter compounds have a particularly important role, not only in health benefits, but help humans distinguish between naturally occurring toxics found in plants that taste bitter. As an example, one compound found in a wide variety of poisonous plants is phenylthiocarbamide (PTC). Phenylthiocarbamide (PTC) is a compound that has been reported to be perceived bitter by 70% of North American and…

“My Papa’s Waltz Tone” “My Papa’s Waltz” is a poem that can be both interpreted as “bitter” and as “sweet”. Depending upon how one views it, there are both parts that represent “bitter” and also parts that represent “sweet”. The parts that are seen as “sweet” visually describe the boys affection to his father and also the bonding between the father and son. The parts that are seen as “bitter” visually describes the fathers appearance and his actions. The quote “Life is about change.…