Personal Connections

My first personal connection would be found on the first paragraph, that I too can remember only quite a few chunks of memories even though I am still young. I can barely remember the things I used to do when I was in kindergarten. Just like me, Lizabeth can only remember chunks of memories, and find her memories somewhat missing.

The second paragraph shows that Lizabeth gets different kinds of emotions when looking at an object or a living creature; I do too. When I was younger and more childish, I used to be very emotional with all the things around me. In fact, too emotional that the things around me was very important. I could say I always needed something around me. The paragraph tells us that when Lizabeth sees a marigold, a strange nostalgia comes with it and remains long. For me, when I see for example, a fan, a piece of memory comes to my mind where I caught my finger in the fan. It is painful, but...It is just the way it was.

On the fourth paragraph as well, I could find myself somewhat similar to Lizabeth in a way because I too was very unaware of the poverty around myself. Korea was in a situation of the IMF, where quite a lot of poverty was occurring around Korea when I was in kindergarten to elementary. That time, I didn't even notice whether our country was poor.

Also, in the part where Lizabeth and Joey gets tired of the same formlessness of their summer days, I too usually get tired of my summer break, even though it is a break for me to rest. I usually don't rest, but get bored or either have to study. Also, just as Lizabeth was desperate to fill up the midday hours during summer, I too would usually wander trying to figure out a way to fill up my summer times.

Just like Lizabeth and the others chose to do something not right, disturbing, bothering, and hurting other, I too had some situations where I was too bored or got with the naughty kids and did something bad. When these kids chose to bother Miss Lottie, me and my friends done something bad in the basement parking lot. We used to shoot BB guns in their, which wasn't allowed.

Here, Lizabeth tells us that she had a moment where she lost her mind and became mad that she did something she didn't realize. I had this moment as well. Once, I was too tired, that I lost my mind a bit and said something quite wrong to others. I wasn't able to control myself in saying what I needed to say and what I needed to prevent from saying. I eventually hurt that person.

Additionally, Lizabeth says that she doesn't like to be ashamed after she insulted Miss Lottie. I too hate to be ashamed, especially in front of lots of people. Being ashamed makes you feel quite bad, frustrating, embarassing, and ashaming. I used get ashamed all the time after doing quite simple mistakes and bad things.

Later on, Lizabeth finds out that her dad could cry; her strong, firm dad could cry. I had a similar situation when I was young. I saw my dad cry as well when I was in elementary. However, it wasn't shocking as Lizabeth, because I was used to seeing people cry. After all, I used to cry a lot as well.

In the end, Lizabeth does something that she couldn't be forgiven to Miss Lottie, I too had done some things I can't really remember specifically, because I was so young, but then the unforgivable things were eventually dealt by older people and sooner or later, they just forget about it because, they realize you can't do anything about it. This was when I found out that I should never do anything stupid.

Lizabeth wakes her brother Joey, during the night because she was scared; I had the exact moment when I was in elementary, where I was scared at night after a nightmare, I made all of my family wake up. I got in a quite a big trouble after that occasion.