A Gazelle and the Chinese An author holds a myriad of tools in his or her arsenal that can be used to strengthen their vision for the story. One such tool, the motif, reoccurs throughout the storyline and can either be used to fortify the key theme of the work or create a totally different theme. A common theme is shared by both works Morning Sea, written by Margarett Mazzantini, and Story of My People, authored by Edoardo Nesi. The overall meaning of Morning Sea revolves around the certain barriers that refugees have to endure whilst traveling to Italy. The overall meaning of Story of My People revolves around the degradation of the Italian style due to an influx of cheap labor from Chinese immigrants and globalization. Nesi’s motif of the
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“Now and then, they stop and look back, like children do, and this curiosity can be fatal.()” If we compare the gazelle’s predator to Gaddafi, the reader can see that the immigrants migrate for mere survival and not for financial or violent reasons, as some might think. In a similar fashion, Edoardo Nesi composes Story of My People, so that the reader can sympathize with the Chinese immigrants. In the chapter, “Immediately”, Nesi transports the reader into a sweatshop factory where Chinese immigrants are working for cheap wages. As Nesi further examines the sweatshop, we gain an emotional understanding of the lives that the Chinese immigrants are really living. Of all the terrible health practices taking place in the sweatshop, Nesi directs our attention to a fragile and small Chinese woman whose body suffers from “a great deal of inflammations (108)”. Our worry and empathy for this Chinese female worker continues to grow as we learn that she can only treat her problem by consuming strips of animal horn. In the next chapter, Nesi depicts the Chinese as an …show more content…
Nesi writes, “You wonder if they know where Italy is, where Florence is, where Prato is (113)”. He likens their presence to slave mentioning that some only the luckiest Chinese workers earn “8 dollars a month (109)”. In bringing us into the filthy lives that the Chinese people are involuntarily living in, Nesi gets the message across that they are not the enemy, but rather an oppressed population birthed by the same globalization that ruined Italy’s workforce. Although both authors arrive at the same conclusion that the immigrants in Italy should be accepted by Italians, they do so using different means. Mazantini implements the gazelle motif in a stylistic manner in an effort to convince the reader to have a positive opinion of the refugee crisis. She implements beautiful imagery when the gazelle is mentioned in order for the reader to create an emotional connection with the gazelle. This is done by employing words such as “lustrous”, “calm”, and ‘young”. The function of using vivid imagery serves to make the gazelle appear fragile and allows any reader to easily sympathize with a nonviolent creature.
“Now and then, they stop and look back, like children do, and this curiosity can be fatal.()” If we compare the gazelle’s predator to Gaddafi, the reader can see that the immigrants migrate for mere survival and not for financial or violent reasons, as some might think. In a similar fashion, Edoardo Nesi composes Story of My People, so that the reader can sympathize with the Chinese immigrants. In the chapter, “Immediately”, Nesi transports the reader into a sweatshop factory where Chinese immigrants are working for cheap wages. As Nesi further examines the sweatshop, we gain an emotional understanding of the lives that the Chinese immigrants are really living. Of all the terrible health practices taking place in the sweatshop, Nesi directs our attention to a fragile and small Chinese woman whose body suffers from “a great deal of inflammations (108)”. Our worry and empathy for this Chinese female worker continues to grow as we learn that she can only treat her problem by consuming strips of animal horn. In the next chapter, Nesi depicts the Chinese as an …show more content…
Nesi writes, “You wonder if they know where Italy is, where Florence is, where Prato is (113)”. He likens their presence to slave mentioning that some only the luckiest Chinese workers earn “8 dollars a month (109)”. In bringing us into the filthy lives that the Chinese people are involuntarily living in, Nesi gets the message across that they are not the enemy, but rather an oppressed population birthed by the same globalization that ruined Italy’s workforce. Although both authors arrive at the same conclusion that the immigrants in Italy should be accepted by Italians, they do so using different means. Mazantini implements the gazelle motif in a stylistic manner in an effort to convince the reader to have a positive opinion of the refugee crisis. She implements beautiful imagery when the gazelle is mentioned in order for the reader to create an emotional connection with the gazelle. This is done by employing words such as “lustrous”, “calm”, and ‘young”. The function of using vivid imagery serves to make the gazelle appear fragile and allows any reader to easily sympathize with a nonviolent creature.