Vocab for Shaman

Ideographs: An ideogram
Ideogram: A written symbol that represents an idea or object directly rather than a particular word or speech sound, as a Chinese character
Enumerate: To mention separately as if in counting; name one by one; specify, as in a list
Seal: An embossed emblem, figure, symbol, word, letter, etc., used as attestation or evidence of authenticity.
Emigrate: To leave one country or region to settle in another
Phonograph: Any sound-reproducing machine using records in the form of cylinders or discs
Servitude: Slavery or bondage of any kind
Ailment: A physical or mental disorder, especially a mild illness
Adamantine: Too hard to cut, break, or pierce
Midwife: A person trained to assist women in childbirth

Cinematographer

If i was to make this book into a movie, i think it would be very hard. I have seen many other movies from foreign countries especially Asian ones. The one thing that I usually notice with all of the Asian movies that I have seen is that they are all really hard to follow. They have really fast transitions to the next scene or what happens next. You also end up figuring a lot of things out by yourself because they don't just put it out there. They leave you questioning sometimes so you have to go back and read it over, or see the movie again to clear things up.
The other thing that i would say about this if it were to turn into a movie, would be that it would be much more suited for older audiences. I wouldn't expect to see a kid in this type of movie because of the graphic things that happen in it. Things like babies being born, girls going through their menstrual cycle, and destroying of people's property is just not the type of thing you really want to show your kids. Or at least i wouldn't.
The last thing that I would have to say is that it would be very hard to relate to since I don't really think our culture is the same way at all as this one. And usually people like to watch things that they can relate to because it is more interesting to them. Since the two different cultures are so different people would not understand the things like when she is supposed to be loyal to her family and work on the fields, that is only known to happen in Asian cultures. In places like America you would not generally see that so you wouldn't know how to relate to the person in the movie since the lives of the two people are so incredibly different.

The Woman Warrior... so far

So far I have read up to the part where she is just starting to go away from the old people that she was living and training with for the past fifteen years. There is nothing that is really confusing me at this point because i had all my questions the other day in class. My thoughts of whats going on so far is that some things didn't seem very real in the story, such as eating the ten pounds of sap and then you would live forever... that was kind of untrue. But then again this is just a story so what can you expect. Besides those couple of things I really dont think that there is much that i need clearing up on yet. At this point and time in the book I'm pretty clear on everything thats going on.