My Beloved World Analysis

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"I've learned that fear limits you and your vision. It serves as blinders to what may be just a few steps down the road for you. The journey is valuable, but believing in your talents, your abilities, and your self-worth can empower you to walk down an even brighter path. Transforming fear into freedom – how great is that?" (Soledad O'Brien). Education is one of the most essential resources that man has been provided with. It serves as a bridge for man in order for him to achieve success. It is one of the most valuable weapons used to defeat any act of corruption, ignorance, and/or injustice. Most importantly, education is a privilege and a right given to man, which no person is allow to take it away from him. Therefore, gender, ethnicity, …show more content…

However, throughout time, women have been standing up for themselves, trying to prove that their gender is not an obstacle to become successful, admiring role models. According to Vox Magazine, "Today, women dominate higher education, making up 57 percent of college students and earning 57 percent of college degrees in 2013." We see how women are succeeding among a patriarchal society. In My Beloved World, Celina (Sonia Sotomayor's mother) is a character that represents how a woman is able to achieve success despite her obstacles. Celina joined "the first Puerto Rican units of the Women's Army Corps" (73) ; she also became a well known nurse among her community. "My father never resented my mother's ambitions...he encouraged her. She managed to finish high school, do a secretarial course, and study to qualify as a practical nurse" (78; Ch. 7). Sotomayor also mentions another character that represents women success, Dr. Elsa Paulsen. Sotomayor describes her as being the first women at the hospital with a "position of real-world authority" (97; Ch. 9). She also emphasizes how "When she walked into the pediatric diabetes clinic at Jacobi Medical Center, everybody – interns, residents, nurses – came to attention. You could tell that they wanted to please her, that she was the boss, though she was also warm and friendly" (97). Sotomayor herself is also a …show more content…

My Beloved World by Sonia Sotomayor provides us with a character that did not give up just because of his ethnicity. Jose Cabranes is a Puerto Rican role model not only for Sotomayor, but for his community as well. "Jose Cabranes had served as special counsel to the governor of Puerto Rico and head of the commonwealth's Washington Office, and was now Yale's general counsel, the first named to that position" (225; Ch. 19). He reached a high point that at that time almost no one who was consider a "minority" could reach. Sonia Sotomayor is also an example that proves that ethnicity is not a barrier when it comes to gaining an education, she says: ''Yes, I'd experienced prejudice aimed straight at me... I knew the painful consequences of bigotry...This stuff simply didn’t define me in any meaningful way: if somebody called me a spic, it told me a lot about them, but nothing about myself" (154; Ch. 14). Despite the discrimination she faced while she was in school, she still became an important character not only in U.S history, but in the Hispanic history as

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