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In the text “The color of my words”First the young lady was very shy and not outgoing, she did not believe in her dreams, but then as she got older i guess it grew out of her she became a strong young lady who started to follow her dreams and live them. She always had a dream about becoming a writer and she wanted to write about living in the Dominican republic but in her country, only the president was allowed to write. In the text she states “I already knew what I wanted to do in my future” following along with this she says she wants to be a writer that will have a story or words to go with everything. Ana Rosa is a very smart and brave young lady because not everybody is able to follow their dreams but no matter what she went on with life
and she wanted to follow her dream which was to become a writer. She has so much inspiration to achieve her goals she watches her brother look for his future he wants to learn how to dance as, she tries to make becoming a writer happen at a such young age. Ana rosa family i a little poor but that doesn't stop her they lives in the Dominican republic she has a wonderful power of how she uses her words she wants to put her words for a better use and use them to become a writer. Ana’s not so sure if this will happen because as stated in the text “in the Dominican Republic only the president is allowed to write” so she was unsure if her dream was going to be achieved. Whenever he wanted to write on anything so she would find like little tiny scrapes and find papers to write on them for her writing could get better.
The verbose use of imagery in this poem is really what makes everything flow in this poem. As this poem is written in open form, the imagery of this writing is what makes this poem poetic and stand out to you. Marisa de los Santos begins her poem with “Its here in a student’s journal, a blue confession in smudged, erasable ink: ‘I can’t stop hoping/ I’ll wake up, suddenly beautiful’” (1-3). Even from the first lines of this story you can already picture this young girl sitting at her desk, doodling on her college ruled paper. It automatically hooks you into the poem, delving deeper and deeper as she goes along. She entices you into reading more as she writes, daring you to imagine the most perfect woman in the world, “cobalt-eyed, hair puddling/ like cognac,” (5-6). This may not be the ideal image of every person, but from the inten...
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
The structure of “Nikki-rosa” is distinctive yet strong. The lack of punctuation helps to tell the story; blunt thoughts about her childhood, a special moment for the author viewed as a negative by another. T...
This book is a story about 4 sisters who tell their stories about living on an island in the Dominican Republic , and then moving to New York . What is different about this book is the fact that you have different narrators telling you the story , jumping back and forth from past to present . This is effective because it gives you different view point’s from each of the sisters . It may also detract from the narrative because of the fact that it’s confusing to the reader . This is a style of writing that has been recognized and analyzed by critics . Julia Alvarez is a well- known writer and in a way , mirrors events that happened in her own life , in her book . Looking into her life , it show’s that she went through an experience somewhat like the sisters . I interviewed an immigrant , not from the same ethnic back ground as the sisters , but a Japanese immigrant . This was a very
Elena Poniatowska escrita durante una epoca de cambio en Mexico. Antes de sus obras las mujeres mexicanas eran sometidos, docil, y pasivo. En la tiempo de sus obras las mujeres estaba tratando salir de los estereotipos de antes. Esta problema social tomo un afecto en Elena. Aunque ella no viene de un movimiento literatura directamente, ella escrita con el concepto de compremetido. En su narrative El Recado ella crea un mujer estereotipical que no puede controlar sus emociones. La titula es eso porque ella viene a ver su amante, pero el no esta, asi ella escribe las cosas que sentia. La perspectiva es de un personaje y ella nunca interacta con otros personajes. En facto la unica descripcion de un personaje otro de la protagonista es de su amante Martin. Habla de otros personajes, pero solamente de sus acciones. Porque ellas es la unica perspectiva que tenemos es sencillo a sentar compasion para una protagonista de quien nombre no aun sabemos. Ella da la descripcion de toda que vea, y mas importante todo que se sienta. Tambien tropos y figuras retoricas dan un tono significante al poema. Estos sentimientos de la portagonista y el tono emocional de la narrativa transporta una tema de una mujer estereotipical y debil quien quiere ser reconocido.
In Julia Alvarez’s short story “Daughter of Invention” the speaker needed to read and Write to save her life. In this character’s case, she needed to read and write to save her social life. In as an immigrant who moved from the Dominican Republic to the United States, she needs to become part of the culture of the country. Learning English and be able to speak the language well is important to being accepted into the culture. She described United States culture as hostile and “took root in the language” to help merge herself with the culture (). Without, learning the language, how to write she would be forever be shunned by the English speakers in the United States. This would make her life extremely difficult because in the United States
The novel Dreaming in Cuban, written by Cristina Garcia, is a novel following the lives of a Cuban family during La Revolución Cubana. Garcia develops her story in great detail, particularly through the struggles this family faces and how each of them attempts to find their own identity. Although the novel has many characters, Cristina Garcia primarily develops the story through the eyes of Pilar Puente. Even though she is one of the youngest characters, Pilar endures a plethora of struggles with her life and her identity. Her mother, Lourdes Puente, moved the family away to New York in order to shield Pilar from what Lourdes deemed to be an unfavorable past in Cuba. The main source of Pilar’s frustration is her internal conflict between her Cuban heritage and her American identity. This struggle stems from the relationship with her grandmother, Celia del Pino, contrasting with her life in America. Along with her struggle with her Cuban heritage, Pilar Puente has many experiences that shape her self-identity throughout the novel Dreaming in Cuban.
To start off, the author demonstrates the theme of identity through the stranger. Consuelo is a humble, elderly woman raising her granddaughter, Wendy in the extremities of poverty in the Dominican Republic. Her daughter Ruth, the mother of Wendy, is busy working three jobs in New York trying to support herself and her abusive husband. Almost every week, Consuelo receives a letter from Ruth, summarizing the details of her life those past few days. However, there has been one week in which Consuelo did not receive a letter from her daughter. She takes this a sign of alertness and writes to write to her as soon as possible. There is a problem, ...
Despite the current scrutiny that her race faces she asserts to the reader that her race and color define her as a person and does not determine her identity. Despite the mindset that most of her peers keep about the inequality of race, she maintains an open mind and declares to the reader that she finds everyone equal. Thus proving herself as a person ahead of her own time.
“Here” by Sandra Maria Esteves. A poem that talked about her identities and what she is feeling with her identities. Esteves mentioned that she has two different identities “I am two parts/ a person Boricua/ spic” (Esteves 362), she state that she is Boricua and Spic which means that she is from Puerto Rico and Hispanic too. Also she talked about her “past and present” (Esteves 362) which can be interpret like she identifies herself in the same way in her past andher present. The final two lines in the first stanza can summarized her cultural problem “Given a cultural beauty... And robbed of a cultural identity” (Esteves 362), when she says she was “given a cultural beauty” she can be talking about her Hispanic blood, the way she look, but she also mentioned that was “robbed of a cultural identity” which she means that they take her identity away.
When they first arrived to the United States their only hopes were that they would have a better life and that there were better special education programs for Maribel to attend at Evers. Alma imagined that the buildings would look a lot nicer than they really were. The family was surprised that they could take things from the street that someone threw out of their house, but were in working condition. When they arrived they didn’t think that you would actually have to learn English to be able to communicate, but after going to stores and interacting with people they learned that they need to learn English if they want to live in America. They hoped that you could be able to afford anything in America by working, but based off of the money Arturo was making they learned that you can’t buy everyth...
I tried out for color guard in March of 2016. My experience with joining color guard has been one of the best decisions that I have made so far in my life. Not only has it changed me as a person, it has changed the way I look at situations. It sounds weird that an activity could change so much in my life, but it truly has. And it has made me a better person because of it.
Sandra Cisneros is a very famous writer, she is well known for her work. Cisneros is a Latin American writer who was born to Hispanic parents. Her novel Straw into Gold revolves around the struggles she as a Latin American had to go through. She talks about the stereotypes, and poverty she and her family went through “I think mama and papa did the best they could to keep us warm and never hungry” (Cisneros, 387). The story creates an atmosphere of understanding and inspiration. Which can make young people feel inspired and motivated by Cisneros acts, she was brave enough to break culture boundaries which can inspire and motivate others to do the same.
...contrastes. A pesar de que presentan una diferencia de casi sesenta años respecto de sus fechas de publicación, los temas centrales que abordan son prácticamente los mismos: la representación de la pobreza y marginación de los sectores urbanos capitalinos, las luchas por la preservación de las comunidades del Caño, la división de clases y espacios, el anhelo por tener una mejor calidad de vida, la resistencia al sistema capitalista, entre otros. El poema de Julia de Burgos muestra un espacio olvidado por la Historia y la literatura, con el propósito de indagar sobre el mundo social y realizar una crítica a los sistemas que lo oprimen. Más aún, se adentra a una problemática que hoy todavía existe, por tanto, su poema mantiene la misma vigencia y pertinencia que tenía cuando fue escrito. Y aquí radica la importancia, no solo de dicho poema, sino de su obra en general.
Do authors such as Alice Walker connect to their real life experiences into his/her writings? Well, Alice Walker is one of those authors. Alice Walker is a black African-American author and activist. She writes novels, short-stories, poems, and essays. In fact, one of her most famous novel was “The Color Purple”. Walker was also awarded the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award in 1983. This essay will reveal how an author named Alice Walker connects her real life experiences into her writings.