his is a story of a teenage girl who seek a brighter future for their small village. It describes the book Into The Beautiful North by Luis Alberto Urrea. Urrea would describe our main character Nayeli a nineteen years old as passive with a high perseverance who live in Tres Camarones in Mexico. Nayeli at very young age, figured it out what does their village’s problems and needs that need to be addressed right a way.
After watching the movie The Magnificent Seven. Nayeli have been inspired of how those people step up on the problems that they're facing . Nayeli and her friends are doing a quest to find men who will protect and repopulate their small village. But the main reason of Nayeli’s mission, is to find love and searched for her long lost father who went to United States to find a job.
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After reading the book “Into the beautiful North” I arrived at a conclusion that the story in this book does not actually revolve on the main character itself.
Urrea showed us multiple journey of Nayeli’s friends these people are the reason why our main character is moving forward. Nayeli’s friends are the one who helped her during the time that she was in need of help. In my opinion everyone can be a hero of this book its because they provided helped to our main character. But the question is how do we identify the hero ? Some of these characters in the book are lacking some aspect to be called a hero,they may have provided some help but we can’t really put them as a hero.
Urrea does not pay more details on Nayeli, it does not hinder me to see that Nayeli is the protagonist in this book. Even though Urrea mention everyone journey still no doubt in my self that she had the characteristic already and she proved her worth many times to be called Hero, She lead the quest to find men she also have the trust of everybody and the most important is when the time that her friends need her in their lowest point she is there to provide comfort and
answer. As Urrea mentioned everyone's journey the best example that i can give you would be Tacho, he wanted to go in a journey along with Nayeli its not because he just want to it's because he wanted to escape from the ignorant misconception about gay people. I would say that there is a “wall” that i notice over here and what i mean about that is those people living in Tres Camarones who judge someone based on their gender and appearance . I Can't really blame those people of how they judge Tacho based on their limited knowledge of understanding about gay people at that era.
The novel El Sonador is about a boy that finds beauty and wonder everywhere he goes. Neftali is the type of boy who is really shy and likes to spend most of his time alone reading, writing, and daydreaming. When he grows up, Neftali wants to help others that do not have the power of expressing themselves. His father mocks his dreams because he has already planned his son's future.
While there are many themes that can be found in this novella, Benitez skillfully uses the Mexican culture and the beliefs to improve her story, giving it understanding beyond the traditional American thoughts that many foreign writers are unable to achieve.
In the face of hardships, one must never lose courage or led to be discouraged. Amari, a fifteen year old African girl, ripped from her homeland, and forced to work on a rice plantation, finds her inner strength by not giving up on hope. Copper Sun by Sharon Draper follows how Amari endures life on a rice plantation, and all the pain she goes undergoes.
Throughout the time I spent between the covers of The Prince of Los Cocuyos, I was astounded by Richard Blanco’s dynamic relationship with the novel’s sole “antagonist”: his abuela. It seemed that no matter how many times he was chagrined at her attempts to negotiate the English language, or was forced to repress his very personhood to meet her traditional standards of manhood, she never ceased to be a pillar of support for a young Richard Blanco. But beyond his grandmother, Mr. Blanco made it quite clear that he was surrounded by a pueblo of family and friends throughout his childhood and adolescence, a village that would confound his “becoming” but foster his growth, make him question his identity and yet be intricately connected to it. It
Many heroes appear in the book The Outsiders. The characters that I think are heroes are Ponyboy, Johnny, and Dally. The definition of a hero for me is a person who is brave enough to do things to help someone even if it is a dangerous thing to do.A hero also cares for others and people can rely on them. Ponyboy was a hero because he saved peoples’ lives. Johnny died as a hero because he also saved the kids from the burning church and he was also relied on by his gang members. Dally was hero mainly because he cared for his gang and people relied on him. These three characters were heroes in this book according to my definition of a hero.
Webster’s dictionary defines a hero as any man admired for his courage, qualities or exploits, especially in war. Some people attribute the term hero mostly to war. My personal definition of a hero is someone who takes a stand against evil or an unjust cause. The term hero can be applied to anyone, it isn’t necessary to save the world from explosion to be a hero. The act of standing up for a friend can also be called a heroic act.
A warped and twisted childhood: Tayo, the half-breed neither the people of his unknown father or the Laguna people of his mother wanted him—he represented the evil destruction brought upon the people of the desert by the greed of the white man; who took without any regard of the ‘mother’ raping and pillaging the earth destroying her off-spring to feed the armies of Mexican and white laborers taking from the land trees, minerals, and killing her animals. Tayo’s first years were horrible living in cardboard and tin shacks—when his mother was not selling her body and soul for a bottle of booze. “They found their own places to sleep because the men stayed until dawn. Before they knew how to walk, the children learned how to avoid fists and feet” (Silko, 100). ...
A hero is defined as "someone admired for his bravery, great deeds or noble qualities". There are three categories to which all heroes can be classified into, one of which is the anti-hero genre.
Who is a hero? In contemporary times, usage of the term has become somewhat of a cliché. Over the years, the term “hero” has become representative of a wide variety of individuals, each possessing differing traits. Some of the answers put forth by my colleagues (during our in-class discussion on heroism) as to whom they consider heroes pointed to celebrities, athletes, teachers and family members. Although the occupations differed, each of their heroes bore qualities that my classmates perceived as extraordinary, whether morally or physically. Nonetheless, Webster’s defines “hero” as “a person who is admired for great or brave acts or fine qualities.” Thus, it is worth considering that individuals become heroes relative to the situation with which they’re faced.
Heroes can be anyone who set there mind to it. One woman can be a heroine to all the
Heroes. Everyone wants to be a hero, but sometimes, people lose sight of what a true hero really is. It does not have to be someone who flies around and saves innocent people from perilous monsters. A hero is simply someone that inspires others. In Alexie’s The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Junior was a hero because he rose above the expectations the world placed on him through his courage, passionate determination, and sympathetic perception.
What is a hero? Many people think instantly about, police officers, fire fighters, or perhaps a person that saves the day such as “Batman” or “superman”, but in reality a hero are not just people that save the day or other from harm. A hero can also be your parent, or parents that are there for you through your good and bad or even right and wrong days; or your brother or sister that perhaps worry about you and is determine to teach you well, this way you do not commit the same mistake they once did or saw growing up. The novel “In the time of the butterflies” the three sisters are known to be hero’s for standing up and sticking to their beliefs. But a hero is not only those that die for their country or others, it takes a
Julia Alvarez was an example of how a Latina writer identified herself in a new culture outside of her comfort zone. She, as a Dominican Diaspora, had to reinvent herself as she migrated into a new scenario. Her assimilation into the United States culture allowed her to understand and relate to the reader’s needs and points of interests. After all the effort, Alvarez kept in mind that she could not comfort to all the reality that she lived in, so she re-reinvented herself all over again to process her thoughts and beliefs into her life. She put her perspective on her writing so that the new wave of readers, even if they did not understand, could relate in some way and appreciate the differences. The sole purpose of her writings was for everyone to change their perspective from “walk to the other side of the street in order to avoid sharing the same sidewalk” to “I do not know them, but I do not avoid them because I do not know them”. She instilled in her reader’s mind how ordinary events were viewed differently through other cultures’ eyes. Her story Snow was a great example of how she portrayed her technique.
What's a hero? A hero isn't just a person with a super cool suit and fun powers, or a human who beats up villains and saves the world. A hero can be anybody and from the book “The Outsiders” by the author S.E. Hinton. Ponyboy, Johnny, and Dally are often described as heroes because of some things that they did in the book. Ponyboy is a hero because he saved children from the inside of a burning church, Johnny is a hero because of his want to help other people. Finally, Dally is a hero by his kind actions towards Johnny. These three Greasers are both brave and courageous.
Trinidad and Tobago has long been home to talent, particularly so when it comes to the arts. With a Nobel Prize win from 2001 under his belt for his gifts bestowed upon the world of West Indian literature, V.S Naipaul boasts impressive thirty or so novels published. Despite the number of books written, I have only had the pleasure of reading one, Miguel Street, which explores his time spent on the assumed Nepal Street of St. James, Trinidad, during his adolescent years. The novel itself is quite different than the traditional as it consists of interconnecting chapters each focusing on a different character as the narrator, the young boy, grows up on the street. Like many other East Indians in Trinidad who lived in rural areas, Naipaul and his