Andre Dubus The Fat Girl

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Although the stories are fiction, many of the stories we read in short fiction, see like stories that we hear that happen to real people. The authors of the short stories we have read use identify to create relatable characters for the reader. This story is talking about a girl who dont know English very well. She liveś in america ,and she is in high school . She is 13 years old. Another story is about a preacher and a boy. The have an argument in the church about questioning. The last story is talking about a girl who eats food everyday, every minute, every hours. Her friend are skinny. She is the only one who is fat because she eats food a lot and everyday. Her friends wants her to be skinny but she won’t listen. And she won stop eating. …show more content…

Louise, carrie, and Richard. Louise most defining characteristic seems to be her habit of eating food secretly. She deems it a ritual of deceit and pleasure, yet at the same times she realize it was a vice that was insular and destructive. Louise self-perception demonstrates that by the time she is in high school, she identifies herself by what she eats and how much she weighs at times tries to forge on identity for herself that is not based on her weight. She acknowledge she likes other parts of her body. It's hard to lose weight. But her friend loves her who she is. And her dad loveś her who she is, expects her mother. Her mother wants her to be skinny, but she won't listen to her mother. She won't listen to her husband because he made her feel bad about her weight. ¨” every day Richard Quarreled, and because his raga went to father her weight and shape, she felt excluded. From it,and she remained calm within layers of flesh and spirit and watching his frustration, his impotence. He truly believe they were arguing about her weight. “ he didn't say! Honey love who you are even through if you are fat he didn't say in nice …show more content…

And l don't understand what the teachers was saying. So l didn't do anything. And l was 13 years old, and i also know english because i had to work hard to learn english because english is not my first language, so like i say it was hard to learn english. The best story is when i was Puerto Rican by Esmeralda Santiago. The story is the best because i relate this story, Esmeralda is most like me, like immigrant, and she had to learn English like me. She remembers me when i come to america and how i come to high school. She remembers me when i didn't know much English when i could speak english at all. I got nervous when i have to speak it front of people. I like Esmeralda because we both rated. We both immigrant. We are both to learn English and how to pronounce it. “ Esmeralda Santiago moved to brooklyn from puerto Rican with her mother and several of her brother and sisters when she was 13 leaving behind her father and live in the country. After being assigned to a class for kids with learning disabilities because she cannot speak english well” Esmeralda movies a lot, and when her family movies and she changes school, she is given the chance to write her own ticker. I like Esmeralda because we are both come to america. And we are both were 13 years old when l and Esmeralda come to U.S “ she was 13 leaving

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