A Princess Found Analysis
Courage and Discovery: Analysis of A Princess Found “YOU ARE A PRINCESS!!” screamed her uncle. “You can be a Paramount Chief one day! Your grandfather was one and your uncle is one!”.For a twenty eight year old American biracial woman who just wanted to find her birth father, that is a lot to swallow! The two tales across 7548 kilometers that eventually become one, is the memoir of Sarah Culberson’s, A Princess Found, is about the longing for an identity beyond skin color that is well explained with her internationally noted quest for her father. Published by St. Martin’s Press, it as a book of the questioning of biological background and a biracial woman’s emotional burden of negotiating the world of racial identity. Quite the
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Though she is royalty, the book kind of plays it off and does not expand on it. Her travel and anxious thoughts of finding her birth parents are the large majority of the last half of the book. Other than that, Sarah's story is an informative journey through her history, as well as an enlightening glimpse into the lives of her families as they build a future together. This living history lesson shows the reader how events and decisions that seem far removed from real people can affect everyday life. This is a lesson most of us never internalize. The colorful descriptions and cross-cultural interpretations by both of the authors enhance this account and make it accessible to readers of all backgrounds. My only wish is that the authors had included a bit more information about the correct pronunciation of the Mende, words. …show more content…
Irony is a common factor, but the most ironic is the fact that in 1994, when Sarah was being crowned homecoming queen, her father was running for his life from the murderous rebels. An example of pathos is when the story of Joseph starts and the first paragraph states that “....for simple scout missions, their adult commanders did not waste precious drugs on the children, hallucinogens which revved them into fearless and brutal machines. Only later in the afternoon, when the rebels ordered the child soldiers to kill did they carve slits into the boy’s young temples, pierce holes into their tender veins and rub cocaine and “brown-brown” heroin into their raw wound. Scotch tape slapped across the incisions pressed the drugs deeper into their bloodstreams”... This applies to the aspect of children younger than the teens of today getting literally brainwashed.This makes you think about any child getting there head split open for drugs. Nowadays, here in America, this is called child abuse. A logos example is as follows, “... a flat tire among the unpaved roads poxed with potholes- some so vast a truck could fall in and tip over- was not unusual.But during the civil war a flat tire was a death sentence…” This is also an example of logical reasoning of if you want to survive unharmed in the civil war, avoid flat tires. Flats equal death. An example of
Though she is royalty, the book kind of plays it off and does not expand on it. Her travel and anxious thoughts of finding her birth parents are the large majority of the last half of the book. Other than that, Sarah's story is an informative journey through her history, as well as an enlightening glimpse into the lives of her families as they build a future together. This living history lesson shows the reader how events and decisions that seem far removed from real people can affect everyday life. This is a lesson most of us never internalize. The colorful descriptions and cross-cultural interpretations by both of the authors enhance this account and make it accessible to readers of all backgrounds. My only wish is that the authors had included a bit more information about the correct pronunciation of the Mende, words. …show more content…
Irony is a common factor, but the most ironic is the fact that in 1994, when Sarah was being crowned homecoming queen, her father was running for his life from the murderous rebels. An example of pathos is when the story of Joseph starts and the first paragraph states that “....for simple scout missions, their adult commanders did not waste precious drugs on the children, hallucinogens which revved them into fearless and brutal machines. Only later in the afternoon, when the rebels ordered the child soldiers to kill did they carve slits into the boy’s young temples, pierce holes into their tender veins and rub cocaine and “brown-brown” heroin into their raw wound. Scotch tape slapped across the incisions pressed the drugs deeper into their bloodstreams”... This applies to the aspect of children younger than the teens of today getting literally brainwashed.This makes you think about any child getting there head split open for drugs. Nowadays, here in America, this is called child abuse. A logos example is as follows, “... a flat tire among the unpaved roads poxed with potholes- some so vast a truck could fall in and tip over- was not unusual.But during the civil war a flat tire was a death sentence…” This is also an example of logical reasoning of if you want to survive unharmed in the civil war, avoid flat tires. Flats equal death. An example of