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Fairest, by Meredith Talusan, analysis #4

After reading from pages 109-149, Meredith began to have a new life at Harvard away from her parents, mainly her mother whom she told to stay away from her and that if she wanted to feel better and start acting like a real mother that they began to send her money because she didn’t need anything else from her. On the other hand, she tried to focus on her studies, and at the same time, while also looking to experience love with different men. In her first year in college, her life was a bit lonely because she had no friends and one of the only men by her side was Matt. She met Matt in Professor Miller’s class, a class that was based on gay people and their sexuality, through the day’s Matt pretended to feel something for her, but Meredith didn’t feel the same but wanted to experience the sexual act with him and be friends if things don’t work out between them, he used her because he just wanted to sleep with her and Meredith was already tired of being used when she told her to stop, while he responds, ” Well this is over,” he said, then began to put on his shirt and jeans. “You know what we call you? Fresh meat.” I can say about that quote that Meredith was not sad about what he said to her, she was relieved to be rid of him, because he was neither the first nor the last man she slept with her freshman year of college. Finally, in her sophomore year of college, she meets her new friend Lucy, and she begins to think that her gender transition promotes great freedom of expression and abilities to be able to determine femininity.

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Fairest, by Meredith Talusan analysis #3

After reading “Fairest” on pages 68-106, I can understand how Meredith felt empty inside when she saw that her mother was only using her for her benefit. When she received the news that the show she was in was canceled, she felt a great sadness that she would no longer be on television, and she didn’t know how she would ever focus on school again. When Talusan’s mother also received the news, she did everything she could to get her daughter on another show, but Meredith had had enough and told her mother that she wanted to live with her grandmother because she was not a real mother, and confronted her for the first time. She was free and went back to her grandmother, started studying in one of the best schools, made new friends, and could feel the feeling of love towards her friend Samuel. After long years, Nanay Coro dies (Meredith’s grandmother), no one could identify that child from before because now she had become a woman. At the funeral, one of her old friends tells her, “It’s amazing you’ve become a woman. We didn’t even know you were gay.” Meanwhile, inside she thought, “I felt disappointed over how I hid so well that even my most intimate friends didn’t know me. I was still sure Samuel did though, regardless of what he said”. Sometimes we must hide who we are, just as Meredith did, if she had not hidden it, she would surely think she was going to lose the only friends she had, but still, Samuel did have an inkling of Talusan’s true self but he never told her anything and pretended not to know anything and continued their best friends friendship. The great feeling she felt was so great that she didn’t want to leave for America without kissing him or holding his hand, but she had to show control because if she lost her sanity for a moment, it was as if she knew, that she would also lose a good friend in the blink of an eye. It was an impossible love, she let it go even though she hurt, but for me, she felt happy when she could smell one of her T-shirts for the first time. Finally, when Talusan first came to America, her thoughts on what America was like betrayed her as she saw the sad reality of a country she considered wonderful. Everything was different from Filipina.

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Fairest, analysis number 2

When I read fairest from pages 30- 67, I was able to analyze and understand that Meredith could not feel alone completely as she always had her grandmother Nanay Coro by her side, but she noticed that the love of her parents was missing, she even became jealous of her new brother and noticed that her parents loved her brother more, but through the days when she auditioned in a show and she got the lead role, her mother was extremely happy because her son would be on TV and that would benefit her a lot and she could get for her the money that Talusan earned for being part of Redford’s show. Meredith noticed that her mother faked everything and that she simply wanted fame and to receive compliments from others about the wonderful son she had. In one of the scenes, Talusan was feeling tired because it was 1:00 AM and they were still filming, so Redford told her to take a break and then they would go back to filming. This upset her mother a lot, she even told him why he embarrassed her like that, also, when they got home her mother hit her, and this was one of the quotes Meredith said, ” I accepted the pain because parents beat their kids where I was from, but I couldn’t accept the injustice of Mama hurting me whenever I wasn’t perfect, while she allowed herself to make every mistake. I didn’t grow to hate Mama because she beat me; I hated her because she was unfair”. In my point of view, no matter where you come from, we must simply realize that children are just children and that parents must learn not to use them for their good. Talusan’s mother beat him just because he was tired, but he never realized that his son neglected even his studies and that he became the least intelligent in the class just to see her smile, as he felt that his mother was ashamed of him even when his mother’s friends were at her house, she told him, don’t go down those stairs, I don’t want them to see you, but when she saw that her son was getting more and more famous, she stopped being ashamed of him.

ON THE OTHER HAND, CHILDREN ARE NOT BEATEN FOR EVERYTHING, SOMETIMES THEY ARE CORRECTED FOR THEIR MISTAKES, BECAUSE WHILE YOU BEAT YOUR CHILDREN SIMPLY BECAUSE YOU THINK IT IS A WAY TO EDUCATE THEM, YOU ONLY GET THEM TO BE MORE AND MORE REBELLIOUS OR AFRAID TO HAVE YOU AS A MOTHER.

MY QUESTION IS, IS SHE A REAL MOTHER OR IS THE ROLE OF A MOTHER NOT AT HER LEVEL?

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Fairest by Meredith Talusan

According to what I have read from the book “Fairest” by Meredith Talusan, I could understand that Meredith Talusan was an albino born in the Philippines who came from a peasant family, but eventually moved to the United States to live better and where she needed to learn the language perfectly so that she would not sound like a person with her native accent and everyone would stop considering her as an American because of her whiteness. She felt self-conscious about her body for looking like a man, and so she decided to transform herself to become like a woman since inside she considered herself a woman. Her courage to show that she wanted to act and dress like a woman was extremely low because to others she always looked the same, a person who never changed. So, she was afraid of being judged by how she would look in women’s clothes, until she saw with her own eyes, that when she wore her friend Lucy’s clothes to the Drag Night party everyone called her, “you look like a real woman”. I can tell she was flattered and beautiful by how she looked and how others looked at her, everything about her was perfect until she stood in front of the mirror to look at who she was in the real life.

Three of the most talked-about themes is when Meredith tries to say she wants to be accepted. Second, that she shows weakness when no one wants to be her friend because they think she is a weird person. And third, love, she is loved by certain people and one of those people is her grandmother. Also, she is admired for being white and blonde-haired. After witnessing gender and sexuality in a trans person, I can confirm that they feel the fear of being mistreated if their true selves come out, and instead of looking at them for who they are, they look at them as disgusting people.

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Without a doubt these three authors had their clear point of how they wanted to create their books and show us a little bit about their childhood, and how they lived life. Every excerpt that these actors read, I loved, because they are strong quotes that show their feelings and pain when they were writing it. Two of the quotes that stood out to me the most were from author Kiese Laymon, and author Meredith Talusan. The quote from author Kiese is, ” I didn’t want to teach white people not to steal. I didn’t want to teach white people to treat us with respect. He wanted to fight white people fair and square and he wanted to knock them out.” This quote shows us that he wanted to treat white people the same way they treated black people. He wanted to pay them back in the same coin because he was getting tired of paying for white people’s feelings with a smile of kindness when they don’t give a fuck. He wanted to fight back, and get everything that was stolen from them, everything that was taken from him as if they didn’t deserve it.


The second excerpt that caught my attention was Meredith’s, which said, “My grandmother assured me that I was destined for a better future than her, and our ancestors, farmers who had tilled the land in the fields surrounding our village for generations. This is because you are beautiful, and not dark and ugly like me.” This quote from the book Fairest, the book I am going to read, I really liked it because the grandmother tries to tell her that she will have a good future because she is beautiful and was born as an albino girl, who will be identified as white, who will be very successful in the United States, because she is not a dark woman like her grandmother, who is discriminated against by all racists just because her skin color is dark.

In conclusion, these 3 authors read us a fragment of the most striking quotes from their books, they read it to motivate us to read it, and to give us a clear idea of what it is about, and how they were treated by life and the people around them. These books, as well as the 3 readings called, “La Otra,” “The Cover of my Face,” and “Quick Feet.”, have very serious themes and based on real facts, they show refreshing ideas about how the actors writes his personal problems and with society. In reading “The Cover of my Face,” Meredith describes how she was treated as a trans woman, how cruel life was, and how many people made her unable to loving herself or identifying with who she really was. I hope to gain new insights as I read this book, and hope that Meredith has learned to be herself, and that she has learned to avoid the bad comments that affect her.

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MY EXPECTATIONS ABOUT THIS CLASS

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TOGETHER

We may all have different expectations for this class, but I’m sure all those expectations are good if we really want to learn. We give everything we have to show that if we are attentive and we are interested in learning something new, and I think I would show all my interest in this class to be able to show that I have the curiosity to learn something different from I what learned in my other classes English in high school. I will be very responsible with the tasks that the teacher assigns me, I will not disrespect anyone in this class and I hope to receive the same respect that I offer, create strong ties of connection so that we can all trust each other and everything is less complicated , help each other, not criticize others if we make a mistake in something, much less discriminate. Also, I hope the teacher will be patient with me and everyone if we can’t understand something perfectly. Finally, I hope to finish the semester with good grades and get my credits, and most importantly, come out with new knowledge.

Another of my biggest expectations is to get a good GPA. In high school I graduated with a GPA of 87.60 and in these 4 years I hope to obtain a higher GPA, a GPA of 3.8 – 4

MY WISH IS TO SUCCESSFULLY PASS THIS CLASS, I ALSO WISH THE SAME FOR EACH ONE OF YOU. TOGETHER WE STARTED THIS CLASS AND TOGETHER YOU MUST FINISH IT TO GO TO THE NEXT LEVEL.