Journal #12

My favorite one sentence from Hawai'i's Story by Hawai'i's Queen is from Chapter One: A Sketch of my Childhood. The sentence reads: "Rent, eviction of tenants, as understood in other lands, were unknown; but each retainer of any chief contributed in the productions of his holding to the support of the chief's table". This quote is my favorite because it really stuck out to me and grabbed my attention and made me think of what it would be like to live a life like that. In the United States most people know what rent and eviction is by a very early age. The fact that these did not exist is pretty exciting. The fact that these Hawaiians worked together, for each other and trusted each other enough to not have to install these duties is quite sensational. The value of life in Hawaii was, and still is, something alien and estranged to our society today.