Unfamiliar Fishes 10-16-14 pages 1-29

     So due to the fact that I am reading a book about the author discovering the history of Hawaii, I don't actually have any characters. So instead of doing character development, I'm going to write about how the subject of the story is developed.

     So I know that I've described the way Sarah Vowell writes already, but I'm going to do it again anyway. When she writes about the history of a place, she always does it while she's there and brings in past experiences and research on people and occurrences that have to do with that history. 

For example on page 27 in the second paragraph she takes note of how Hawaiian people take a different approach to gathering information. On a forum she was looking at to find out the meaning of the Hawaiian word kupuna one person commented with regard to other people's opinions and how he hoped not to offend anyone in anyway. Unlike the various French men who published articles covering various topics in the book titled Encyclopédie, which had been brought up the paragraph before. One of of the name Denis Diderot had a mission statement (a formal summary of the aims and values of a company, organization, or individual.) that stated "All things must be examined, debated, investigated without exception and without regard for anyone's feelings." 
Using her past she connects how the cultures and mannerisms of the people are different.

     In the beginning she describes how America sort of took over a lot of islands in WW2 in order to fight Japan, with little to no regard of the people who lived there. This, of course, included Hawaii, which already had a bit of history with them.
This is how the author says she got into the history of Hawaii in  the first place. 

     She then moves on, out of curiosity, to the only Palace in America. She then writes about how Queen Liliuokalani was overthrown by "the sons of churchy New-Englanders". After explaining what happened in about half a page, she then remarks that she was in Hawaii at the time in 2003. The same time an Iraqi dictator of the name Saddam was overthrown by the same government. Connecting the two incidences she says "Still, there's an identifiable link between the two overthrows, an American tendency to indulge in what trendy government lingo was calling at the time a "regime change"."

     The way she develops the subject really is through her style, which is to talk about one thing on subject, then connect it to something else she is familiar with enough to do so. To me it makes it more interesting. Not only are you learning about the history of Hawaii in this case, but you also learn about other little snippets of history that have sort of been ignored in our education so far. To be honest I can really tell why a lot of countries don't like ours. We take over everything with no regard to the people already there. Not much has changed I guess.