Journal responses for Thursday 9/18 and Friday 9/19

For "Mother Tongue," consider the following question in your journal response: The stockbroker story is comical and the CAT scan anecdote is disturbing, but they both illustrate the same point. What is that point, and why does Tan include both memories in this essay?

For "Lying in the Tall Grasses," consider the following question in your journal response: Writing is often perceived as an intellectual exercise, but Opal Palmer Adisa wants the reader to think of it as something deeper, more visceral. (Click here for a definition of "visceral.") How does she manage to convey that feeling in the opening of her essay?

As you have written for the previous journal responses, your response to each essay should be at least 75 to 80 words for a total of at 150 words.