La Vida Dura
Manuel Castellote celebró su cumpleaños el 4 de enero. Tenía un payaso, globos de todos los colores, hamburguesas, música, toda su familia, y casi treinta amigos y amigas. Manuel ahora tiene diez años y todos estaban celebrando por varias razones. El es un chico muy amable que tiene muchos amigos. Pero, no fue una gran fiesta porque él es tan buen chico, fue una gran fiesta porque los médicos dicen que este va a ser su último cumpleaños…tiene la SIDA. Manuel Castellote es un niño especial y excepcional en la escuela, en su comportamiento con sus amigos, y en su vida diaria con el SIDA.
Manuel es inteligente, guapo, chistoso, y atlético. Juega tenis y basquetbol y es el presidente de su clase. Estudia mucho y le gusta leer. Cuando alguien le pregunta por su cosa favorita, él siempre contesta con una sonrisa grande y dice, “por supuesto, la escuela”. En la escuela saca A’s en todo y trabaja mucho para ayudar a sus compañeros. Es el presidente de su clase entones trabaja mucho con su maestra y con otros estudiantes. Siempre está ocupado estudiando o ayudando a los demás.
Manuel tiene muchos amigos. Hace tres años no tenía amigos porque todos tenian miedo de su enfermedad. Ahora él es tan bueno que todos lo aman. Cuando alguien habla con Manuel, se olvidan de su enfermedad y se enamoran de su personalidad. Cuando alguien se burla de él, no llora y no se enoja. Solamente lo pasa por alto porque piensa que la vida es muy corta para pasarlo enojado y triste.
Viviendo con el síndrome de inmunidad deficiente adquirida es muy difícil. Manuel tiene que tomar muchas pastillas y tiene que ir al médico varias veces al mes. No se puede enfermar porque cualquier virus puede significar su muerte. Se cuida mucho con su salud y trata de vivir lo más normal posible. Es una vida dura, pero Manuel dice que no le molesta su enfermedad porque le ayuda a apreciar la vida y la belleza de la naturaleza.
Nagami also had to deal with the limits of medicine in dealing with her cases. The chapter dealing with AIDS, chicken pox, subacute sclerosing panencephalitis displayed the limits of medicine. In each of these cases the patients involved died even though Dr. Nagami and her colleagues tried to prevent their deaths. In the case of AIDS and the encephalitis advances have been made in treatment of the disease since Dr. Nagami first encountered them. At the time of the cases however there was very little that could be done to save the patients. Some cases like the chickenpox simply overran the body and any treatment that was
Miguel Castaneda is the narrator and main character of the story “We Were Here”. Miguel is a young teenager from Stockton, California. He is dark complected because of his Mexican background but he does not have the personality to do the work like that of his Mexican relatives. I know this because in the story it says, “Told us we might be dark on the outside, but inside we were like a couple blonde boys from Hollywood.” He is very different from the rest of his family in terms of being able to handle situations that are put in front of him and completing the task at hand.
middle of paper ... ... My drive on a hike with my friend Alexan helped me understand a lot of similarities and differences between my friend and I, as I mentioned and described. It also helped me understand some similarities between Oliveira and I, and La Maga and Alexan. Thankfully, after three hours of waiting on the top of the mountain with Alexan, the fog had disappeared, I received a bar of reception on my cell phone and found our way back to Alexan’s vacation home.
As a young child, Rodriguez finds comfort and safety in his noisy home full of Spanish sounds. Spanish, is his family's' intimate language that comforts Rodriguez by surrounding him in a web built by the family love and security which is conveyed using the Spanish language. "I recognize you as someone close, like no one outside. You belong with us, in the family, Ricardo.? When the nuns came to the Rodriquez?s house one Saturday morning, the nuns informed the parents that it would be best if they spoke English. Torn with a new since of confusion, his home is turned upside down. His sacred family language, now banished from the home, transforms his web into isolation from his parents. "There was a new silence in the home.? Rodriguez is resentful that it is quiet at the dinner table, or that he can't communicate with his parents about his day as clearly as before. He is heartbroken when he overhears his mother and father speaking Spanish together but suddenly stop when they see Rodriguez. Thi...
Mason, in the article, emphasize on the embodiment and fluctuations of what the central character Jose a Santeria also known as Regla de Ocha, was expose too when trying to balance the perception of how people viewed him in society by negotiating his religious practices. When looking more into Olmos and Paravisini-Gebert’s view, they elaborate more on the embodiment of the enslaved West Africans migrating to Cuba during the slave trade; taking them from their mainland of existence to a new place where they need to adjust to a new lifestyle and religion. Also, they have to negotiate their identity and religious practice to be then able to intertwine their original religious practice Santeria
Cultural misunderstanding and failure to communicate between Dr. Brown and Arturo’s mother led to his overdose and almost led to his death. Arturo’s medical issues was clouded by cultural misunderstanding and miscommunication by Dr. Brown, by writing the medical prescription which means one thing in English and totally a thing in Spanish, which led to Arturo’s mother to make him take more pills than necessary, in order to make up for the days he missed taking the pills.
As his intimate family life at home ended, so did his childhood. The sounds of his family speaking Spanish were sounds of his childhood. When his family stopped using Spanish as their home language it shattered an intimate bond. Only when he established trust though friends in English and distinguish intimate voices, he was able to hear himself addressed as an intimate at home again. Spanish for him was associated with closeness. He does not "credit to language what he should credit to his family members" (35), which he feels is a convenient mistake many often make.
Each of us human is alone in our hearts. It is the only place that we are afraid of letting anybody in. We rarely break through the ultimate solitude, but only to reach out to the miracles beyond our world of living, to find out that the strength of love and hope have not abandoned us. Writing about the spectacularity event of life, Marquez could not help stepping in between the magical world and the reality to tell us a tale about “The handsomest drowned man in the world”- the tale of a coastal village interrupted by a man washed up to the shore.
Victor Martinez’s “Parrot in the Oven” is a novel that reflects the protagonist’s school days, his athletic activities, and family life. Victor Martinez experiences as a Mexican-American are the influences that induce him to produce such a literary work with figurative language that he receives naturally from his family. In his life, Martinez’s high school days and his teachers take important role as they motivate his to find opportunities that he can get as a son of a migrant worker. He presents his feeling and emotion for finding his identity and belongingness in his novel. As “Parrot in the Oven” is a coming-of-age story of a boy, the high school days and family life of the protagonist is explicitly presented. Everyone has unforgettable school days that made a great impact on the mind of the person. I can never forget about my school days and the sports activities I have participated, got victory, and met failures. I have learnt not only education, but also life, as does the protagonist of the novel. I would like to describe the high school days, athletic contests, and family matters of the protagonist, Manny Hernandez that is concentrated mostly on the chapters 7 and 8 of the “Parrot in the Oven.”
El Recado es un cuento de la esperanza y amor. La protagonista viene a visita Martin, pero el no esta en su casa. Entonces ella esperas en peldano, y esperanza que el aparece pronto. Esperanza es una palabra muy importante en el cuento. La palabra es usado directamente tres veces en la obra 26, 31, y 39. Tambien en el principio de el cuento todo es de un afecto sensual. Mientras ella esta en el peldano vea el jardin de Martin. Da caracteristicas humanos (personificacion) a los flores en el jardin ( 6-7), estos caracteristicas como honesto y graves probablamente tambien de su amante. Luego ella hace una comparacion directa entre el y el jardin “Todo el jardin es solido, es como tu, tiene una reciedumbre que inspira confianza.” Este oracion no solamente tiene un simil, pero tambien ayuda en mostrando la comparacion a un mujer de un hombre. El hombre es personificado con palabras de fuerza, mientras todo el cuento muestra una mujer debil.
En el relato por Benedetti "El otro yo,” encontramos un hombre que es muy, como Benedetti lo describe, "un muchacho corriente” (75). Benedetti describe lo que lleva: "los pantalones sí le formaban rodilleras” (75). Esto puede crear una imagen de alguien que conocido, o como forastero con quien te encuentras en la calle. Entonces, tenemos aquí la capacidad de mirar a través de su vida, cuando Benedetti nos decir que el hombre corriente "leía historietas, hacía ruido cuando comía, se metía los dedos en la nariz, y roncaba en la siesta..." (75). Cada una de estas acciones forman unas imágenes de un hombre muy normal, con una vida muy normal sin incidentes. Así lo afirma el escritor Mario Benedetti en "El Otro Yo", dicién...
He has brown short hair and blue-green eyes. He is very handsome, he is not that tall. he has a lot of hair on the hair on his arm’s. His favorite color is red and he always wears long socks he never wears sweatpants and always wears sneakers he loves baseball to much . his favorite place to visit is Costa Rica. he was born in La Jolla, San Diego. He loves to be running. He is very athletic. He is part of a big family with almost fifty cousins. He is always playing sports. He loves big parties. He has a ton of friends. He always wants to learn and have a good time. He loves to play with his brother and friends. He loves going to the beach and loves traveling. It is good to be Sebastian because he demonstrates kindness, humor, and bravery.
En el relato por Benedetti "El otro yo,” encontramos un hombre que es muy, como Benedetti lo describe, "un muchacho corriente” (75). Benedetti describe lo que lleva: "los pantalones sí le formaban rodilleras” (75). Esto puede crear una imagen de alguien que conocido, o como forastero con quien te encuentras en la calle. Entonces, tenemos aquí la capacidad de mirar a través de su vida, cuando Benedetti nos decir que el hombre corriente "leía historietas, hacía ruido cuando comía, se metía los dedos en la nariz, y roncaba en la siesta..." (75). Cada una de estas acciones forman unas imágenes de un hombre muy normal, con una vida muy normal sin incidentes. Así lo afirma el escritor Mario Benedetti en "El Otro Yo", diciéndonos que el hombre ...
The patient has also been suffering from frequent fevers in the past two months. He has also suffered from frequent headaches but has always taken painkillers (Bloland & Williams, 2003, p. 58). On fevers, the patient has frequently visited a local health clinic that has never done any diagnosis but has given medication, which reduces the fever.
El libro cuenta la historia de la familia Buendía en el pueblo de Macondo. El pueblo es fundado por diversas familias conducidas por José Arcadio Buendía y Úrsula Iguaran. Los dos son primos y se casaron con el temor que sus hijos pudieran tener cola de cerdo. Igualmente tuvieron tres hijos: José Arcadio, Aureliano y Amaranta. José Arcadio, el fundador, es la persona que lidera e investiga con las novedades que traen los gitanos al pueblo, y termina su vida atado al árbol hasta donde llega el fantasma de su enemigo Prudencio Aguilar con el que dialoga. Úrsula es la matriarca y jefe de la familia, quien vive durante más de cien años cuidando de la familia y del hogar.