Wendy Rose Reading

Wendy Rose has suffered a lot throughout her life because of her nationalities. By being Indian, Irish and Scottish she can't really relate to any one nationality. The Indian side of her family doesn't like her because of the white part, and the Irish and Scottish side don't own her because of she is Indian. "Neon Scars" really expresses her thoughts and feelings by talking about her past, and bringing up scenes about her past, for example when her father would abuse her or when she talks about always being lonely. In class we talked about the title of the essay and I liked how someone said that scars are things that try to be hidden but when it says their neon it means that they can't be ignored. The things that she went through have scared her for the rest of her life but no matter how hard she tries to hide them she won't be able to.

The first poem, "Juila," was very different. The expert explaining what the poem was about is extremely different and I am not really sure why someone would write about something like this. Rose writes in the view point of Julia and asks why her husband why he did the things he did. In the other poem, "Truganinny," she talks about how she is the last person and how long she lasts and how different she is from the newer people and how she wants to be buried where, "they will not find her."