Author Statements

Kala Clark

In my vignette about my disconnection with my culture, I used multiple metaphors and analogies to describe certain things that needed to be described in a more descriptive way. In my vignette about the origin of my name is used. One analogy to describe people with names that are extremely long. In the vignette about the disconnection with my culture I described large men being able to paddle big boats as- “strong as a giant and as big as a statue”(Clark)(Untitled Disconnection) The next analogy I use was in my vignette about the origin of my name, I describe long hawaiian names as sentences and people trying to pronounce hawaiian names“Some people have names as long as sentences”, “when people from the mainland try to pronounce my name it sounds like they are trying to pronounce an element on the periodic table”( Clark)(Untitled Origin) These analogies and metaphors are used to describe certain things to make it more exciting.

I made one drawing for the author-Charlie Parsons. And another one for the author Will Ruotela. For the author-Charlie, I made a drawing of the filipino flag. I did this because in Charlie's Vignette, he wrote about being in the philippines and not having much connection to his family their or his language or heritage. For Will’s vignette, I drew a soccer player kicking a goal with a score board. I drew this because in his vignette he wrote about a specific soccer game.