Two simple strangers can share a couple of differences but many similarities. The unexpected can occur at the most inconvenient time when two people meet. In “Geraldo No Last Name”, Sandra Cisneros uses short but precise diction and syntax to compare and contrast Geraldo and Marin in order to reveal the two strangers’ similarities, such as their insignificance, and differences, such as their social class. Two individuals, who barely know each other, can have many personal traits in common. For example, Marin and Geraldo are both “young” people who enjoy going to “dances” even though they know “nothing” about each other. Geraldo is basically a nobody to everybody, and Marin is a nobody to Geraldo. Marin was just someone who went to dances, and Geraldo was just some “wetback”, so that means that they were both insignificant on their own levels. Geraldo “wasn't [Marin's] boyfriend or anything like that”. Geraldo and Marin both shared a casual, short relationship. Neither of them saw it necessary to build a strong, long-lasting, serious …show more content…
relationship because they just went to dances together and they were not dating. Both of these incomplete strangers had the same mindset when it came to things regarding their relationship and how much they truly cared about each other. Although two simple strangers share similarities, they can also have a couple differences.
For example, an “ashamed brazer” and an “uptown” girl cross paths, only to have their short relationship abruptly destroyed after Geraldo’s unexpected death. Marin was probably in a higher social class than Geraldo and she must have had money, because she could afford to go to all those dances. Their relationship was abruptly terminated, because they were never really destined to be together; Marin was sympathetic, worried, and got stressed, but Geraldo was just someone who just did not care. Cisneros uses diction such as “what did it matter” to show Geraldo’s insignificance to the people around him. Geraldo was unimportant and nothing because he didn't “matter”. On the other hand, Marin was more well-known, because she attended the dances Fontana, Logan, and Embassy. Two simple strangers may lack a connection because of their
differences. Geraldo and Marin, who are strangers to each other, share both similarities and differences. Throughout their relationship and up to the end, the two dancers experience everything ranging from guilt, to death, to bad timing, and the importance of life as a result of a short conversation and dance.
Two people with two completely different characteristics have something alike. Both Dally and Johnny are mentally tough because of their parents. Johnny and Dally’s parents both do not care for them and could care less about them. For example, during Dally’s childhood he went to jail, been in a gang, and has been in many fights and his dad still would not care for him even if he won the lottery. Dally also talks about his dad's disgrace towards him in the car with Johnny and Ponyboy, “‘ Shoot, my dad don’t give a hang whether I’m in jail or dead in a car wreck or drunk in a gutter...’”(88). Dally could easily live without his dad and he does for the most part. Dally just hangs around with his friends and stays at their place. Similarly, Johnny's parents use him like a rag doll to blow off steam, “his father always beating him up”(14). The gang knows what happenes in Johnny’s house. Once Ponyboy was witnessing, “Johnny take a whipping with a two-by-four from his old man”(33). Ponyboy talks about how loud and mean Johnny's mom is and,“you can...
Bonding with someone, whether it's friendship or a serious relationship takes time no matter what and they have the same characteristics to build up that relationship; whether it's trust or respect most relationships need them to work together, no matter what time period it is. We build up such a fantasy when were younger of our future lives and what they are. Imagining that you'll have no tensions between another person or you'll be living at peace with yourself, but as we grow were thrown a curveball that disrupts all your facade of happy life we made . It's a disrupting force yet people can overcome the hardest obstacles in order to pursue what or who they want to be acquaintances with. Putting in the effort pays off in the end and people can get where they want sooner if they just try a bit harder earlier on. People learn to trust, love and respect differently, but it's all existent in people's lives in some way, and it’ll be varied throughout everyone else’s
In the novel Balzac and the little Chinese seamstress by Dai Sijie, I can relate my relationship with Diego, and Lou and the little seamstress's relationship because we have numerous things in common. We both try and keep our sexual relationship a secret. Both of our relationships are open because Diego and I express our feeling's with people we associate with, we are also open by letting other people see our body language. There relationship is intense whereas my relationship if not. There is an equal dynamic in my relationship, what I mean by saying that is we have similarities and differences.
Obviously one example being Lennie and George, having such a close relationship but not even being related to each other. A critical thing to remember is how throughout the story “Of Mice and Men” George is always looking out for Lennie, knowing the ways of how Lennie always gets into trouble. This being undeterred by Lennie being killed by George, but for very generous reasons, one being Lennie may would have ended up dead or in jail, either way ending in a tragic circumstance. George knowing Lennie he could never survive in jail by himself, George decided to kill Lennie so he would not suffer for selfless reasons. As stated before “To a Mouse” has a theme of friendship, how both being immortal to each other but sharing the same struggles. Taking everything in mind we can see how even in two different friendships between distinct people, they can both approach the same theme in different
When looking at Golding and Marquez's techniques of plot and dialect, one can determine that these methods of writing are used to advocate civility. The authors of both works use their ability to tell stories as a platform for their own beliefs to be heard. These techniques they use, such as plot and dialect, serve as the hidden implications of themselves. The main characters Ralph and Maria transition from an individual in a new and isolated environment to a savage who is a part of this place.
In the book ”He Forgot To Say Goodbye” by Benjamin Alire Sáenz, the reader gets the chance to know the two boys, Jake Upthegrove and Ramiro Lopez. Jake and Ramiro don’t appear have much in common. Ramiro, or Ram as he is called, lives in the Mexican-American suburbs. His life is surrounded by misery, due to his brother’s drug addiction and stealing. Jake, who is a rich white boy, has problems with his mother’s shallow and materalistic world. Still, they have one thing in common: they are lost boys who have never met their fathers. This fact has left them scarred and obsessed with the men who abandoned them. Eventually, their paths cross eachothers and later they find out the problem they share. The friendship between Jake and Ramiro develops into something that was bigger and their problems and the difference between them, which would also beco...
For example, Cofer recalls walking towards her room at a classy hotel with her friend when a high-status man sang offensive songs about Latinas with his daughter’s support, making “the lyrics… about a girl named María whose exploits all rhymed with her name and gonorrhea” (Cofer 107). Although Cofer was extremely irritated and “really wanted to push the jerk into the swimming pool”, she handled the situation in calmly, warning the man’s daughter to never ask what her father did in the army (Cofer 107). In other words, readers sympathize the author’s frustration towards the man and his daughter that denotes the rage that Latinas face from these harsh stereotypes about being dirty-minded and desiring to have sex often. Nevertheless, since hundreds of men in the army were extremely dirty and raped women during wartime, Cofer’s warning for the daughter indicates how it is unfair and aggravating for Latinas to be associated with these kinds of offensive cultural stereotypes when these beliefs can also be applied to any individual regardless of race and gender. Furthermore, on the day of Cofer’s public poetry reading debut, an elder woman assumed that Cofer was a waitress in a Miami restaurant and ordered coffee from her, believing that her poems were menus. Cofer’s
In the story “‘Race’ Politics” written by Luis J. Rodriguez, it writes about how these two 6 and 9 year olds live in a racial world in which they travel across tracks to go from their community to another community to buy some groceries. Things go along nicely until the children exit the store and teens from the other community cause them painful trouble. The purpose for the prompt is to identify connotation, syntax, and imagery.
In conclusion, Marty becomes a better person after he has companionship with Claire. He has started a relationship with her due to the attraction theory, his and her’s self-concept is raised, and although he and Claire broke the rules of self-disclosure, they became better people. Marty was happier as well as Claire when they met each other. This classic love story describes how people can change once they interact with other people. Moreover, this is an example of how human beings in general need interaction to be normal functioning citizens of society. Having relationships, can make a person feel better about him and can possibly revolutionize or emerge a personality that was quiescent due to lack of interaction. This movie demonstrated many facets of interpersonal communication.
Friendship, Role model, Boyfriend/Girlfriend- all these are examples of a relationship. Everyone sees them constantly begin and end throughout life, but they are still always there. In this short story, Frances and Michael are having a problem with their marriage because Michael can’t keep his eyes off other women. “This is the story of a troubled relationship of which only one climatic moment is overly depicted” (Giles 5). This quote shows how Frances stayed in this relationship for many years, even though Michael looking at other women is a reoccurring problem. Frances stayed in this relationship because she was afraid to lose her romantic relationship.
Geraldo No Last Name is a story about a Mexican boy Marin met at a dance is killed in a hit-and-run accident. Because Marin is the last person he is seen with, Marin has to go to the hospital and speak with police to assist them in identifying the victim. However, since Geraldo’s pockets are empty and Marin only met him once, she can only provide only minimal information about him. The title says“Geraldo No Last Name.” Does Geraldo really not have a last name? Let’s see who is Geraldo. Geraldo is an attractive young man who works in a restaurant. Also, according to narrator, he is a brazer who doesn’t speak English, a wetback. It is such a person that died in the hospital without any good treatment. There’s no any surgeons come but only an intern works alone.
Every author has their own version of of loss and their own way of looking at it. Characters from each of these three short stories; “Night Calls”, “Typhoid Fever”, “Geraldo No Last Name” have to deal with a type of loss. Whether that person lost a family member like in “Night calls” or a complete stranger like in “Geraldo No Last Name” even a best friend like in “Typhoid fever” they all have to deal with some kind of form of death. The authors perspective’s in each story can change their own views on how they looked at each perspective of losing someone that impacted them somehow in their lives. The mood and tone of each story also have to do with the author's own perspectives showing through his or her work. Using
“Though neither of them was exactly Ronnie’s type, it was impossible not to admire their lanky, muscular physiques and the fluid way they moved through the sand.” (Sparks 27). In time Ronnie and Will had built a connection and fell in love. They had their fights, but they also had great times together. They went swimming in the aquarium that Will worked at, they had mud fights, they helped sea turtles hatch and make their way to the ocean, and they attended Will’s sister’s wedding together. Will was also there for Ronnie while her father was ill. He did anything he could to help her out. Like any relationship, Ronnie and Will laughed and cried, they had even broken up at one point. Ultimately, Ronnie and Will end up together. I met a guy who I loved, we argued a lot, but the good times made up for it, we were always together. We were there for each other through the good times and bad. Like Ronnie and Will, we broke up. It had a major impact on me and my life then we made up and we got back together. He was even there for me when I had a death in my
If Derwin and Melony were friends their behavior would have been less intimate and more report and rapport based in terms of surface based communicational styles. My point here is that because Derwin and Melony are in a relationship they are more in tuned with one another and interact with open verbal and non-verbal interactions. Derwin’s communication was encoded and decoded with the two culture theory in mind. This theory highlights the rules and norms of communication for men and women in a particular society. There were moments in Derwin and Melony’s communication when codability was established. For example Derwin refers to their favorite snack by its nickname and Melony interprets this
Throughout life, certain phrases and situations seem to reoccur with the same uniformity as if it were occurring for the very first time. Whether it is a coach’s motivating speech that you can recite after hearing it year after year or the principal’s first day of school disciplinary commands that you can regurgitate like your favorite theme song; so many situations in life have become cliché, uniform, and most of all mundane, but that is what I believe Orozco perfectly captures in his short story “Orientation”. Specifically, Orozco captures this mundane concept by the lack of dialogue and the repeated use of common-sense statements such as, “This is a microwavable oven. You are allowed to heat food in the microwave oven” (52). Additionally, the repeated use of the pronouns this, that, these, and those highlights uniformity because by constantly referring to objects as this or that, I believe Orozco is identifying an underlying action we as humans commit; how often do we view decisions and aspects of life as this and that