The decision of the choice made, affects how everything else will turn out. In more than one example, we are able to see multiple examples of this. By way of example, in Abuela Invents the Zero, the author asserts, “... I[Constancia] would like for her to disappear. I just know that on Monday my friends, and my enemies, in the barrio will have a lot of senile-grandmother jokes to tell in front of me. I am frozen to my seat. So the same woman who wants me dead on the spot does it for me. She makes a big deal out of getting up and hurrying to get Abuela. “.(Ortiz-Cofer 14)This shows that Constancia’ s more afraid of what her peers will think instead of how her grandmother will feel and how it will affect their relationship.Constancia paid attention only to how she would feel and not what the outcome would be, or how her grandmother would feel. …show more content…
Not only does Constancia think of her own feelings in this scene, she also doesn’t want to go to church with Abuela in the first place. As seen in Abuela invents the Zero, “I plan to stay very busy the whole time she’s with us so that I won’t be asked to take her anywhere, but my plan is ruined when my mother comes down with the flu and Abuela absolutely has to attend Sunday mass...My father decides that he should stay home with my mother and that I should escort la abuela to church. He tells me this on Saturday night as I’m getting ready to go out to the mall with my friends. ‘No way,’ I say.
Doña Guadalupe is a woman of great strength and power, power and strength which she draws from her devout faith and her deep and loving compassion for her family, and power and strength which is passed down to her children. “‘Well, then, come in,’ she said, deciding that she could be handle this innocent-girl-stealing coyote inside. On going into the long tent, Salvador felt like he’d entered the web of a spider, the old woman was eyeing him so deliberately” (360). Doña Guadalupe is a very protective woman, which is extremely speculative when it comes to her children, this is especially true when it comes to boys, because she has not gone this far only for all of her hard work to be ruined by a no good boy. This shows how protective she is, she loves her family, and especially her kids so much that they themselves must pass her test before being able to pass on to her children. “The newborns were moving, squirming, reaching out for life. It was truly a sign from God” (58). Doña Guadalupe is also a very devout and faithful person. She sees God in everything and in everyone and by that fact, what she sees and who she sees is true, and she tries to be a model of clairvoyance for the family. “Doña Guadalupe put the baby’s little feet in a bowel of warm water, and the child clinging to his mother. He never cried, listening to her heartbeat, the same music that he’d heard from inside the womb” (57). Finally, Doña Guadalupe is very passionate which allows for a great model upon which her children follow. This further shows how she is clearly th...
Admittedly, the first time I listened to Sonia Sanchez read her “Poem for Some Women” the words stung a bit. As her voice oscillates between a soothing and demanding tone, the topic shifts from a drug addicted mother to a child’s traumatic experience of rape and assault. Briefly put, in a desperate attempt to quell her addiction, the poem’s narrator trades her seven year old daughter in exchange for drugs. In the end, the child runs away from home. Despite its graphic imagery and poignant portrayal of both sexual assault and addiction, the poem is not criticizing the actions of the women it depicts.
At one point in the story, Constancia confesses that she is adamant about staying as far away as she possibly can from her grandma, in order to seem as if she didn’t know her. Explaining that Connie is ashamed of her grandma, the author states, “I try to walk far behind them in public so that no one will think we’re together”(Ortiz-Cofer para. #4). Connie is almost afraid of how society will react to her hanging out with her “ridiculous” grandma. She is feeling uneasy and anxious about being with her in fear that someone that she knows will be right around the corner and will see that Connie is doing something that isn’t socially common, or something that she can be mocked or taunted for doing. Based off of Constancia’s actions, it isn’t “cool” to be hanging out with your old grandma because it can ruin your “reputation”. So, when Abuela says that she absolutely has to attend church, Connie is unwillingly forced to escort her grandma there after her mother falls ill with the flu. After they arrive and walk up the stairs, Abuela picks a seat, but soon gets lost. According to the passage, “She can’t find her way back to the pew. I am so embarrassed that even though the woman next to me is shooting daggers at me with her
In “Confetti Girl”, the narrator disagrees with her father and questions how much he cares about her and in “Tortilla Girl”, the narrator questions if her mother was taking her into account of her new plans. Tension is shown to be caused in the stories “Confetti Girl” and “Tortilla Sun” due to the parent and narrator not having the same point of view. In this story, a young girl named Izzy lives alone with her mother. One day, the mother surprises her by explaining that she is going to Costa Rica to do some research, and that Izzy is going to her grandmother’s house while she is away.
The overall theme of “Abuela Invents the Zero” is treat your family with respect. In Abuela Invents the Zero is a girl doesn't respect her grandmother. In paragraph 14 it says “ I Realized to my horror that my grandmother is lost…. I am so embarrassed that even the woman sitting next to me is shooting daggers my way… i would rather like her to disappear. I just know on monday that my friends and my enemies will have a lot of senile grandmother jokes to tell in front of me…. The lady sitting next to me makes a big deal about getting up and getting abuela (ortizes , 14). This shows that no matter what people say or think that you shouldn't be embarrassed of your family. And that everyone has their own opinion and it shouldn't affect your relationship
Well there is always the fate aspect in everything that occurs in our lives but majority of the outcomes created from the individuals own decisions. It is up to the individual to determine what can occur, if they do one thing then something will be the outcome. A side from that, there is always the possibility of being at the wrong place at the wrong time which can have an affect of on the outcomes of life.
What drives people to do things? It would be foolish to call this a simple question, but a possibility would be that the most important factor in why people choose to do something is to feel accomplished about themselves and their actions because as humans, people only do things that they believe will accomplish something good. Some might say that people can do things for no reason. However, everyone has a reason to do something, it might just be hard to find, like going on an unknown path out of curiosity, or randomly dancing for fun. Judith Ortiz Cofer's Abuela Invents
By educating herself she was able to form her own opinion and no longer be ignorant to the problem of how women are judge by their appearance in Western cultures. By posing the rhetorical question “what is more liberating” (Ridley 448), she is able to get her readers to see what she has discovered. Cisneros also learned that despite the fact that she did not take the path that her father desired, he was still proud of all of her accomplishments. After reading her work for the first time her father asked “where can I get more copies” (Cisneros 369), showing her that he wanted to show others and brag about his only daughters accomplishments. Tan shifts tones throughout the paper but ends with a straightforward tone saying “there are still plenty of other books on the shelf. Choose what you like” (Tan 4), she explains that as a reader an individual has the right to form their own opinion of her writing but if they do not like it they do not have to read it because she writes for her own pleasure and no one else’s. All of the women took separate approaches to dealing with their issues but all of these resolutions allowed them to see the positive side of the
...gainst societal norms that require them to be at home. This violation of the cultural norm may be part of the reason why their bodies are later abducted, raped, mutilated and later left in the desert. This phenomenon of murder is a clear message to the women of Juárez that they are overstepping their bounds and that the murders will continue—either until views change or the women step back into their prescribed roles.
...her than what they are capable of. In Of Mice and Men, the main protagonist George makes a choice to stay with his friend Lennie, even though he says he would be better of without him. Through, his choices, he is described to be a compassionate, understanding, and mature person which makes him supremely different from the other ranch hands in the novel. Likewise, in the Odyssey by Homer, Odysseus calculates several decisions that reveal his wit, resourcefulness, pity, and courage, all of which define him as an epic hero. More over, each author in their own way, preferable focuses on the options the characters choose for themselves and how they are or became the basic building blocks of their humanity. Ultimately, your abilities can be fashioned and built up over the course of many years but, no life altering decision is ever made twice, and neither is each person.
We make important choices everyday that can affect our futures. Whether it is deciding what to eat for lunch or deciding what college to go to, these decisions can affect our lives in many ways. Choice is the act of selecting or making a decision when faced with two or more possibilities. By making a smart choice, your health and welfare can be much better but if you make a bad choice, you future can be different than what you intended it to be. Whether it is a mild choice or a major one, choices can affect the way your life unfolds in the future. In the book, The Red Kayak by Priscilla Cummings, the main character Brady Parks is faced with a major dilemma. He has to make a decision to either turn in is friends for murder or to live
Personal experiences affect everybody. Just like in the stories “Abuela Invents The Zero” by Ortiz Cofer and “Home” by Anton Chekhov. Constancia and Yevgeny, from the stories, both have small problems that lead to dramatic changes in their values. Constancia values what her peers think of her and Yevgeny values work more than his son. The authors of “Abuela Invents The Zero” and “Home” have both shown how small moments can change a person’s values forever.
If one were to break down each day of his life into a series of steps, he could label said steps as choices; some the kind he makes for himself, some out of his control, some made by other people that affect him, and some he makes that affect his peers. Some choices that he makes may seem elementary to some, and to others, may appear as burdensome and impossible. Depending on how one views himself and where one's priorities lie, a choice is something that can be viewed by all different types of people as right, wrong, or so trivial that it shouldn’t even be considered a choice, but merely a habitual action. In the short stories, “The Possibility of Evil,” written by Shirley Jackson, “A Pair of Silk Stockings,” by Kate Chopin and “Popular Mechanics” by Raymond Carver, each of the story’s central characters faces difficult choices that force each character to become oblivious to the fixed fine line between right and wrong, or better yet, move the line to where they make the choice they believe is the right one.
...es one forgot she existed.” The daughters she raises are “perfect… any man will be happy with them because they’ve been raised to suffer.” As for marriage, they must do as their family says, not out of love. This means they can’t pick anyone they want to marry, the family does. Most Latin American families want their lady to marry a wealthy man. They know that wealthy man is aggressive, so Angela or her sisters would be perfect since they are raised to deal with harsh situations. So when Angela Vicario is told by her parents that she must marry Bayardo San Román, a wealthy and somewhat mysterious stranger who knows from the instant he sees Angela, that she is the woman he must have. She has no choice but to consent, particularly since her family is of modest means.
We make choices every hour, every minute, and every second of our lives; whether big or small our choices are slowly putting us in the direction we choose or end up. Many of us do not realize what contributes to the choices we make and why it affects others the same way if affects us and because of this many authors and writers have written stories and articles about coming to terms with making a choice and how to better ourselves when it comes to decision-making for the future.