The essay Loving in the War Years<\/i> written by Cherr\u00ede L. Moraga had a big impact on me and especially the passage I am paying attention to which is the \u201cJournal Entry: 2 de Julio 1982\u201d that can be found on page xi.<\/p>\n
The first thing that draw my attention was the fact that these journal entries are extremely short for a person who makes a living writing. However, Cherr\u00ede makes it clear: \u201cIt takes the greatest effort even to put pen to paper\u201d (xi). Also, it is a personal journal, it is supposed to be private. Therefore, I consider the length of this entry is another way she has to let her emotions flow: with the lack of long descriptions we can appreciate this discomfort.<\/p>\n
On the other hand, it\u2019s precisely in her words from whichI can grasp the rest of her emotions: \u201ceffort\u201d, \u201cweighing\u201d, \u201cdepression\u201d, \u201cface flat\u201d (xi). From my point of view, with all these words of sadness, this journal seems to be a constant fight between two facets: her desire for expressing her identity and tell her story and the overwhelming feeling of emptiness that surrounds her when it seems that all what could be described and told about her own identity is already said but it is not enough, that the pursuit of this understanding is not over. That is why the expression \u201cbankrupt of feeling\u201d makes sense.<\/p>\n
Writing is, apart from her profession, her way of giving her life and way of being meaning, her way of exorcising her demons. When she tells her lover she is depressed, her lover reminds her this is not a feeling but a state. And still, this depression she feels is \u201ckeeping the writing back\u201d (xi). The contradiction of keeping something that gives her life meaning back because it does alter feelings inside her that are not pleasant is the key point of this search for herself.<\/p>\n
All these elements that I have noticed led me to the conclusion that this passage is about the difficulty of finding or develop one\u2019s identity, especially through telling your own story by writing, creating frustration and discomfort.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The essay Loving in the War Years written by Cherr\u00ede L. Moraga had a big impact on me and especially the passage I am paying attention to which is the \u201cJournal Entry: 2 de Julio 1982\u201d that can be found on page xi. The first thing that draw my attention was the fact that these … Continue reading The Search for Oneself in \u201cLoving in the War Years\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5004,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[344620],"tags":[110637,125033,344638,344633,1151,344637,69],"class_list":["post-803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fall-2022","tag-contradiction","tag-depression","tag-difficulties","tag-feeling","tag-identity","tag-pressure","tag-search"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5004"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}