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The Trip, by Sona Charaipotra, is about a girl named Sarika who got flagged for being from a country that is currently at war and the staff also thinks she might be a terrorist. Sarika is currently on a trip with her debate team and her team has been waiting for her since she got stopped. Her classmates are getting worried because Sarika got flagged and they don’t want to miss the flight. The author is trying to say that the theme of The Trip is for a human being to accept others.
ReplyDeleteThe first way that the author shows the theme is when they are interviewing Sarika. As a result, when Sarika is getting interviewed they ask her “What’s your name? he asks, in a super gruff” This proves that you as a human being should accept the differences that people have. Which proves that they are treating her based on where she is from. It is also showing that you as a human being should accept differences because they are treating her poorly and are asking her lots of questions that can be rude.
The second way the author shows the theme with dialogue is when she is getting interviewed again. Meanie asks Sarika “Let me put it in another way what interaction do you have with your country? This shows that you as a human being should accept people's differences. It shows that they aren’t accepting that she has differences because they are judging her for being born in a country. This part of the story shows that as human beings you should accept people's differences.
The first time an event shows the theme is when Sarika asks if she was born in India. Sarika gets asked “But you were not born here? No, I moved when I was 2. Not indian.” The passage is saying that you should as a human being accept differences because the security guard is not accepting that she has differences because she was born in another country. The author is also making it show that they are judging her by her looks.
The author puts in the story that she is getting judged by her passport to show the theme. The second way that Sona Charaipotra is showing the theme is by having Sarika show her thoughts. “They do think I’m a terrorist. Based on 1 word from my passport” says Sarika. Why are they doing this to Sarika? The author is trying to show that as a human being, you should accept differences because it shows that not everyone is willing to accept that people can have differences.
The author uses repetition to show that as a human being to accept differences. For example, “Where are you from Meanie asks, ignoring my question.” After the author mentioned it once it reappeared again and said No, Where are you really from?” This could be interpreted as creating a theme of race; however, it created a theme of a human being accepting differences because there is well-chosen figurative language that you can use. For example when they kept repeating where are you from. The author mentioned this because she wanted it to make clear that they are truly judging Sarika.
The author uses repetition to show the theme. The author uses Have you been to your country recently? Is this what people should be doing? Why don’t they just believe she is a U.S. citizen? The first time the author used it Sarika answered the question and said “I'm a US citizen.” Still, the airport staff didn’t believe Sarika and asked her the same question again. I think the author added this scene into the story to say that as a human being to accept differences because they are poorly treating her and that she is going to miss her flight.
In all, the author uses a human being to accept differences as the theme. The author is trying to show this because of the many times that they are saying things that are based because of her differences because she is from a different country and because of her looks. Like when they kept thinking she was lying when she said she was a US citizen or when they judged her as being a terrorist based on her passport.
I like how you added the author in the story its a good detail.
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