Ensayo ESL 120

Mauricio Palacio

ESL 119

October 7, 2013

*Title:

Rachel’s Kalama mortal disease

*Choose a character from the chapters in Moloka'i that we have read so far (Chap. 1 - 14). Thesis statement:  controlling idea (attitude/opinion) about chosen character.

*three Main ideas/ six paragraphs

*5 paragraphs total:  introduction, summary paragraph, 2 analysis/personal response paragraphs, conclusion

*Introduction

As the story begins, Rachel Kalama is a normal Hawaiian girl but then his mother discovers that she has the mortal disease of leprosy, a disease that can’t be cured or it doesn’t exist an effective treatment against it, that’s when Rachel is sent to Kalaupapa, in the island of Molokai’i, a quarantined place where the people living there have the leprosy disease.

*1st Paragraph

When Rachel arrives to Molokai’i she start to know the local people and their stories, at Kalaupapa she met with his uncle Pono, he introduced Rachel to Haleola, a local native healer. When Rachel saw all the sick people she was scared, but his uncle explained her about the island and the people living there, then he took Rachel to another part of the island, Kalawao, the place where he lives so Rachel could stay with him. At Kalawao, sister Ambrosia tell Pono that Rachel can’t stay with him so she’s taken to a place called Bishop Home. At Bishop Home Rachel knew people with the same disease, their life stories and stories about Molokai’i island. When his uncle Pono died, she stayed at Bishop house, where she was being looked after by Haleola and sister Catherine. Time later she meets Leilani, who has a shocking secret.

*this character has done (so far) in the novel. Provide the main events and major experiences that this character has. 

*2nd Paragraph

For what I know so far about Rachel’s story, she was a young girl with the mortal disease of leprosy. She was taken away from his family, that is the most difficult to overcome when your family is the only you count with.

Rachel has been in difficult experiences despite his young life, and are similar to experiences I have had, like being far from your family, the loss of persons with whom you had a close relationship, and to fell in love at the least unexpected moment. Rachel’s experiences and mine are not the same but were similar, Rachel was taken away from his family because of the leprosy, something that she was too young to understand. When I was 4 years old my parents got divorced and my mother won the custody so I went to live to another city, far from the city where my father was. During the problems between my parents, I loss contact with my father for about six years without knowing anything about him in that period of time.

Rachel lost his uncle and friends that were like brothers for her because of the leprosy disease. Five years ago, one of my cousins died, I had a relation with him as if we were best friends, he was 18 years old and one day, after a party he was walking and someone ran over him with a car. My family was going through a difficult situation, it took several time for everyone to overcome the loss. I was young, I didn’t knew what to think or do, I just knew that my cousin was gone and I couldn’t do anything to have him back. It was a difficult process for me. How did that happened? One day you are with him and the next day he’s gone, he was young with a life ahead. I can’t understand why is life about, I just know that life is unfair no matter what you do or not do, one day you’ll leave the life you know.

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