Annie Johnson and Ernesto reached their goals by working past hardships they may have had. Some of Ernesto’s hardship where learning english and getting used to American culture. Also, One of Annie’s hardship was to survive. As you can see Annie and Ernesto are hardworking and never give up in hardships that may have came along the way. Ernesto had many difficulties along the way to be where he is today. Ernesto is a young, mexican boy who is an immigrant coming to America for a better a better life. Ernesto has many trials along the way like learning English, adjusting to American culture, and becoming a better American without forgetting where they came from, “At Lincoln, making us into Americans did not mean scrubbing away what made us originally …show more content…
foreign.” Luckily, the school he was attending had other immigrant, so it made it easier to adjust, (in the text it states) “Like Ito and several other first graders who did not know English...”Also “Matti told the class about his mother’s down quilt, which she had made in Italy with the fine feathers of a thousand geese. Encarnación acted out how boys learned to fish in the Philippines.” English became easier for Ernesto because he had tons of support from his family and teachers. On the other hand Ernesto still had some Racial hatred towards Americans. Ernesto’s teacher helped him and many other students get their racial hatred out so they could become good Americans. As you can see Ernesto is a young mexican boy trying to learn english and trying to be a good Americans. Annie Johnson was a “Negro” women who has 2 children and herself to take care of, since a recent divorce with her husband, Annie has little to no money, and a single-bedroom house.
Annie needed to figure out a way to make money for her and her "precious babes.’’ So, one night Annie decided to test something out by placing “stones in two five-gallon pails” and “carried them three miles to the cotton gin.” after she carried the stones to the cotton gin she would take a little brake take some rocks out and then carried the rocks to the “saw mill five miles farther along the dirt road.” After Annie realized it could work she decided to fill the buckets with “meat pies” to sell to the workers. After Annie’s business started to take of she started to make the customers come to her and buy her meat pies out of a little shack. This way she could work and take care of her babies. After a while that little shack turned into a little marketplace where you could buy “ cheese, meal, syrup, cookies, candy, writing tablets, pickles, canned goods, fresh fruit, soft drinks, coal oil, and leather soles for worn-out shoes.” All in all Annie was a hardworking, compassionate person who started of with just 2 buckets full with meat pies, to a great store where people came and got many of their supplies
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One, he gives us a point of reference for someone in his difficult and turbulent time period. He was a (presumably) rich Mexican that saw the injustice of how the white American settlers treated the Mexicans that lived near them. He shows us another side of the story, beside the story that the victors would’ve shared.
In the novel The Bread Givers, there was a Jewish family, the Smolinsky family, that had immigrated from Russia to America. The family consisted of four daughters, a father, and a mother. The family lived in a poverty-stricken ghetto. The youngest of the daughters was Sara Smolinsky, nicknamed ?Iron Head? for her stubbornness. She was the only daughter that was brave enough to leave home and go out on her own and pursue something she wanted without the permission of her father. The Smolinsky family was very poor, they were to the point of which they could not afford to throw away potato peelings, and to the point of which they had to dig through other people?s thrown out ash in order to gather the coal they needed. They could not afford to buy themselves new clothes or new furniture.
During the childhood of Jeannette Walls her and her siblings all had to be self reliant to get everyday necessities. Jeannette and her siblings have to do many things such as scavenging for food in any place they could think of. Jeannette would “slip back into the classroom [during recess] and find something in some other kids lunch bag that wouldn’t be missed”(68). Or if she was at a friends house she would ask to use the bathroom and if no one was in the kitchen she would “grab
...rest became a nightmare. Enrique’s time apart from his mother made them more like “strangers” than family. Filled with anger stemming from the years apart from one another, he refused to obey his mother’s wishes to live healthier. While lost in family chaos, he turned back to his addiction of drugs crashing his dream of a perfect family dynamic. Though his dream became a nightmare, he was able to achieve it through one core trait where his inner strength help drive him to not give up his dream of seeing his mother. This signifies that if a person is willing to work hard to achieve their dream through diligence, it can be met. Though the outcome may not be what one hoped for, being able to say you accomplished something is soul-pleasing. His success in making it to the U.S. regardless of many downfalls satisfies one missing piece in his broken puzzle of a life.
Esperanza, a Chicano with three sisters and one brother, has had a dream of having her own things since she was ten years old. She lived in a one story flat that Esperanza thought was finally a "real house". Esperanza’s family was poor. Her father barely made enough money to make ends meet. Her mother, a homemaker, had no formal education because she had lacked the courage to rise above the shame of her poverty, and her escape was to quit school. Esperanza felt that she had the desire and courage to invent what she would become.
As the years went by, his life got more complicated. When he returned from the Navy Chavez kept working in the fields. It was until 1952, when he got tired of the w...
Many are confined in a marriage in which they are unhappy with, and are reductant to make a change. Some are committed to make a change for themselves. Esperanza ponders each one of these women's lives. Through each role model Esperanza gains crucial life lessons on how to overcome different life hardships. Through some women like her great-grandmother and Ruthie, Esperanza learns she must take control her fate, to avoid marrying young, and not let a male figure dictate her future. Other women like Alicia, Esperanza learns to keep pursuing goals in life and to take control of her destiny no matter what obstruction may lay ahead. From Esperanza’s role models, the moral lesson that can be taken away is to be proactive about your life and to shape your own future. Everyone is a role model to somebody in their life. Strive to leave a positive message behind for the ones shadowing in your
His effective descriptions of his struggles in life contribute to the emotional tone of compassion, “I grew up here. This is my home. Yet even though I think of myself as an American and consider America my country, my country doesn’t think of me as one of its own” (Vargas) and excite in the reader his kind nature and convince the reader to accept and understand him well, as he says, “I convinced myself that if I worked enough, if I achieved enough, I would be rewarded with citizenship. I felt I could earn it” (Vargas). All of his words are very strong that can win the reader’s,
The film reflects the class difference from beginning through the end, especially between Annie and Helen. Annie is a single woman in her late 30s without saving or boyfriend. She had a terrible failure in her bakery shop, which leads her to work as a sale clerk in a jewelry store. When Annie arrived Lillian’s engagement party,
Together they shared the same determination of achieving a level of success that was not possible in the societies they lived in and dreamed of lives away from
The story is told through the eyes of seven year old Luke Chandler. Luke lives with his parents and grandparents on their rented farmland in the lowlands of Arkansas. It takes place during the harvest season for cotton in 1952. Like other cotton growers, these were hard times for the Chandlers. Their simple lives reached their zenith each year with the task of picking cotton. It’s more than any family can complete by themselves. In order to harvest the crops and get paid, the Chandlers must find cotton pickers to help get the crops to the cotton gin. In order to persevere, they must depend on others. They find two sets of migrant farm workers to assist them with their efforts: the Mexicans, and the Spruills - a family from the Arkansas hills that pick cotton for others each year. In reading the book, the reader learns quickly that l...
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...
In John Updike’s story, “A&P”, a young man named Sammy is working the checkout line at the grocery store A&P. Three girls in bathing suits walk throughout the store and he notices key differences in every single one of them. The one girl that sticks out to him the most though, he gives the name “Queenie” based on the way she carries herself and her level of attractiveness. When Sammy’s manager, Lengel, begins embarrassing the girls on the way that they are dressed, Queenie fights back that she had to pick up herring snacks for her mother. Sammy begins to make assumptions about the girl’s life and how her family is probably in a higher social class than his, based on what they drink. A spark ignites in Sammy and he wants to stand up for the girls so he quits his job. In hopes that the girls would hear what he did and become the hero of the situation, he finds that they are gone and also finds a new aspiration for the life that he lives.
In the Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, many characters must adjust to the face of adversity to better their
Therefore, he chooses to take the only opportunity that he saw best for a better future for the child he had to migrate to the United States. I can say that politically was not the issues socially I can say was just not giving his child the same life he had when he was young. My father situation I can say was similar to what happen in some of the reading in class how the economic circumstances makes a person to seek a future away from his home land on the other hand some of the reading did not compare to my father situation because some of the people that were portray in the readings migrated to the U.S.A base on political and social struggling, people who try to escape their country that was been dominated by a government that violet their right. In Harvest of Empire by Juan Gonzalez clearly presents these problems. In chapter 3 Cuba...