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AAST 335 - Hitaansh Gaur - Coggle Diagram

- - - - This girl is the reason he came, so the girl is shown as caring and wants to settle things. (35:54)
    - - Tells the kid the mother is the white woman, and she was just a Chinese nurse. She is giving everything up to make everyone else happy (49:51)
      - It is implied she pays her debt back to the sea, and drowns herself. (53:31). The white man was a debt? No, he was a curse like the old man said at the start (5:10)
- - - - The idea off Yellowing comes in the racial thinking in the 19th century, when they became the yellow race (top of page 16).
    - - Toll of the Sea doesn't have this, and it leads to absence of more white values (page 18)
    - - Lack of difference in the skin tone in The Toll of the Sea is a problem (top of page 10)
      - Part of technicolors main research (page 11)
    - - HER NAME BEING LOTUS FLOWER HEAVILY IMPLIES THIS (PAGE 13)
      - She acts as a symbol of the Orient. Something like a "body ornament". Wong was used to add "authentic" oriental flavorful (page 15)
      - Racial differences can not just be surpassed with assimilation (page 19)
      - Her performance was seen as natural and fitting (I THOUGHT THE OPPOSITE) (page 20)
- - - - The sacrifice of Ah Kee is what is right. His purpose was to serve the white man, and that is more than enough (1:19:19)
- - - - Sellers performance is celebrated as good, but it is just racist brown face (pg 13)
  - - - Indian Jones and the Temple of Doom (pg 14)
- - - - She tells him she will be with him until he says to go away (2:05:10)
      - Robert kicks her out after she offers to give him money she saved for the baby. She trusts him with that money - but then Robert kicks her out. It hurts his "eGo". He is very rude and angry. (1:45:00 - 1:46:20)
      - He tells her to go with Ben, and she leaves for Ben, but he is clearly angry/pissed off. She also has no power in this as Ben says he trusts Robert (1:15:00 - 1:20:00)
      - Suzie is attached to him, and often begs to be his "permanent girlfriend". Scenes that encapsulate this are (1:12:00 -1:13:30), (50:30-59:35), (46:45-48:10), (51:30-51:50),
  - - - However, this depth is fake. When her child dies, she doesn't really care and is all happy again when Robert asks to marry her. She is always at Roberts whim - she is not shown to have any personal will. We believe that she does in two scenes: when she says she wants to keep her baby (1:39:46-1:40:39), and when she leaves to be an "American Girl" (1:25:30-1:29:45). However, all of that is thrown away - she doesn't care about the baby dying and she comes back anyways and doesn't be like an "American" girl.
  - - - They try to make him seem caring the scene where he gets mad at Ben (1:23:00 - 1:25:00) and he is like "oh so she is just Chinese so her feelings don't matter. But he still does what Ben asks. "Us chaps have to stick together".
- - - - Its almost like doing these things gives them power.
        
        Steve wants to give his parents a "wake up call" (1:9:40-1:11:20)
        
        After the fight, Virgil says "and I'll go to juvie" in a scared but excited manner (39:00-40:15). He is dealing with the consequences of his actions a lot differently than the rest.
    - - Derrick is still stuck in the mentality of the model minority - he smiles for his class picture (1:31:15-1:31:30)
  - - - Only after the fight do they feel some sort of respect in the school. Before they were just ignored, now they have a reputation of psudeo gangsters (43:00-44:00)
- - - - Tajiri's film creation and re-enactment is an act of self-recovery. By restoring the unspoken hisotry, she releases them both in the video (pg 103)
- - - - ACJ organization (pg 43-44)
- - - - Seems like there is like no remorse from Robert, what a dickhead (28:30-29:00)
      - Give a lot of context on Roberts life (it does not help his case at all at least for me) (16:30-17:30)
        
        Robert has very selective memory from the night (1:07-1:07:40)
- - - - He himself is very reflective and philosophical I would say. He seems like a super smart kid who just needs some guidance, and isn't able to get it.
  - - - His friend group is all Asian (46:125-46:45)
  - - - It's really sad that it took his brother going to reformatory school for the family to come together and for him to feel less lonely. ((51:00-54:00)
- - - - If you have a low paying job - then yes in America (pg 110)
  - - - refugee displacement is permanant, and there are not enough resources to help everyone (pg 113) -> lots of people have been refugees for a long long long long time (Pg 114)
    - - connecting the term refugee and exile, gives a lot more sympathy to the reguees from an outside view (Pg 118)
- - - - Justification is because of the importance of the culture and responsibility and hard work in Vietnamese culture (21:30-22:35)
    - - I think walking into the water has some symbolic meaning. About how she is always half drowned/submerged in familial responsibilities. Like she can't let go of that, but she isn't drowning it either. Almost like an artificial cap on her life.
- - - - When her mom gets pregnant, her grandpa perfectly exemplies this (17:30-19:55)
  - - - Even when she confesses to her mom, her mom refuses to accept it (1:13:00-1:14:00)
- - - - "We weren't close" (34:00-34:10). So quick to forget your brown heritage?
      - The feeling of betrayal comes back (43:00-45:00). The familial duty, the duty to your culture, to your friends all comes back (1:00:00-1:10:00)
    - - Reallly speaks to the power of a name. The Demon calls her by her FULL name 46:30-47:00). It is almost like the demon is calling her back to her roots and she is trying to escape.
    - - In one of her dreams, her mom takes the form of he ghost. Her mom's pressures are haunting her too (55:00-57:00)
  - - - Its a scary thing to live, if you don't want to be Indian. You enjoy different things (raw meat in the last scene) from everyone else. You get judged for it (1:20:00-1:30:00)
- - - - Also almost gets hit too (39:25-39:40)
- - - - The Indians just use them and are fake friends with them. (42:00-45:00)
      - "You don't let them Ugandans marry your daughters" (1:13:00-1:15:00)
      - Is eventually broken (1:18:30-1:19:30)
    - - Racism is based on, you decide what to eat and what to leave on the plate quote (1:09:00-1:10:00)
      - "One I thought I was like you, change the world, world not quick to change" quote. However both are very similar shades Denzel mentions (1:27:00-1:29:00)
- - - - Web 2.0 allows for DIY/DIWO citizenship (pg 14)
      - Media activists are seeking greater participation, don't want to rehaul everything (Pg 23)