It seems that every sibling doesn’t always have a great relationship with their older or younger siblings. In the movie “Real Women Have Curves”, we have two sisters, Anna and Estella,who seem not to get along in the beginning because of their differences, but at the end they become the best of friends because they have similar dreams and learn to support each other. The advantage of Anna and Estella’s relationship is that they benefit from each other. The whole story is that you don’t always realize how much you have in common with your siblings until you realize that you have similar dreams and can be there for each other. Anna is not afraid to speak her mind. For instance, when her mom is she is so called “sick.” Anna asks her mom if her hearing is okay, she says “Yes”. Therefore, Anna tells her that there is nothing wrong with her and leaves her Mom’s room. She is outspoken when she stood up to her Mom at the factory; Anna was tired of her mom telling her that she is overweight. Anna stood up to her mom and said “ You’re overweight as well, so why are you judging me if we both have the same weight.” Anna is outspoken when on her last day of school, she goes to her job and quits, …show more content…
tells the boss that she has always hated the job. We can tell that she is not afraid to speak her mind. Other than Anna being outspoken, she is also a very confident person.
An example of her being confident is when Estella was going to the company that wanted the dresses, Estella wanted more time to make the dresses, but when Estella told the lady, she backed off, but that didn’t keep Anna from asking the lady for more time or pay for the dresses when Estella wasn’t brave enough to ask her once more. Anna was confident was when she was with Jimmy, and Anna showed who she really was and didn’t care what other people said about her body. This goes to show that that she loves her body and herself.Another example of her being confident is when she goes to her Dad at work and he lends her money to pay rent for Estella’s factory. This just goes to show that she is a confident and
strong. Anna and Estella are sisters, doesn’t mean that they are same. Estella is the complete opposite of Anna. For example, Estella is more mature than Anna. Estella doesn’t talk back to her Mom or have and attitude towards her mom. One thing I noticed about Estella is that she carries her Mother’s burden. She has a sense of responsibility for her because if anything happens to her, then she feels like it’s her fault that something happened to her mom.One last thing I noticed about Estella is that she is a very uncertain person. Remember that time where Estella was writing the e-mail to the manufacturer, but Anna insists that she goes to the company to give them more on the dress but Estella didn’t want too. Estella the complete opposite of Anna. As it turns out Anna and Estella may have learned something from each other; or possibly have something in common. Both sisters are very goal-oriented. Anna wants to go to college and Estella wants to start her own company. Both sisters are very hard-working. While in the hot heat Anna works part time in the factory with no pay and Estella has to work long hours with little to no pay. They both have more things in common than they do different. The sister that I would identify with is Estella. I’m more like her because I like to keep things to myself and not in my business. Since Estella doesn’t have that much confidence, I don’t really have that much confidence. Only when I have to be confident , I have too. I wish I had the personality of Anna because she is really outspoken and I wish I was outspoken all the time. When I try to speak my mind, I end up getting in trouble because my words end up being harsh. The one that is outspoken and that gets away with it, is my little sister, Oshi. She is more like Anna, smart and outspoken. You see that siblings have more in common than you think. But when you siblings want to be LIKE you, that is when your differences start to emerge. If you and your siblings were the same wouldn’t it be boring? But if you were different wouldn’t you like to learn more about each other? Even though Anna and Estella’s relationship isn’t perfect, not every siblings relationship is perfect. Eventually you learn so much from them and use what you learned in apply it in everyday scenarios.
The scene was acquired from the play Real Women Have Curves by Josefina Lopez. The characters are five Latina, overweight women by the names of Ana, Estela, Carmen, Pancha, and Rosali. Carmen is the mother of Ana and Estela, so the sewing factory these women work could be a family business, since the owner of the factory is Estela. Therefore, being a factory on stage for this scene probably in the past because from the scene, you can tell there is no air conditioning and they are sewing the material themselves. They also mention “La Migra” and how most of them had papers and some didn’t. In addition, the scene begins with Ana, undressing herself due to the unbearable heat. The women start picking on her because of her fat however Ana doesn’t seem to care because she loves her body and doesn’t need to be treated as a sexual object. The other women join the conversation and conclude undressing themselves comparing body parts to examine who has the worst overweight condition (which seems to be the conflict yet sets the mood to a comedic one). They end feeling
This struggle is something that concerns her throughout the article. Estroff states that “The moment of truth for adult sibling relationship is the aging of parents and decisions about end-of-life parental care.” Both authors feel that the hardest times siblings will have to deal with life issues, is when their parents come to the place they cannot care for themselves. During that time is the moment of truth for siblings, if they can handle the pressure together and work together through the hard choices, or if this could cause them to fall apart. These situations force siblings to either deal with their differences for the sake of the parent, or their differences are so monumental that the burden of the parent falls on one of them or the parent is left to fend for herself, which could end the parent up in a nursing
The play “Real Women Have Curves” is written by Josefina Lopez, and the story is based on her own experiences when working in her sister’s sewing factory without legal documentation. The main plot in “Real Women Have Curves” is the daily life of works revolve around the production deadlines. The play is also adapted into a film in 2002. In the play there are only five female characters dominate the whole story while the movie give a more complete view of protagonist’s life outside of factory rather than just telling the story within the sewing factory, such as including the father and grandpa’s reactions and actions. Both the play and movie are set in a sewing factory in Easy Los Angeles. In the play, the story is focusing on the sewing factory’s owner, Estela, and she is an undocumented worker and afraid of being catch by the INS. However, in the movie, the story is told from the point of view of Ana, Estela’s sister, who just graduated from high school.
For this assessment, I have chosen the movie Real Women Have Curves. The movie follows a traditional Mexican family and their struggle to survive in America. The film focuses, on the youngest American-born daughter Ana. Ana lives in a Hispanic community in East Los Angeles the daughter of Latino working immigrants from Mexico. Her family unit consists of her parents, two brothers, older sister and her grandfather. The movie shows the conflict Ana faces between the clashes of the two cultures. The film shows that Ana goes to great lengths to attend school every day. Ana has had a successful school career, as her peers are getting ready to attend college. She’s expected to get a job to financially help her struggling family. She
From the very beginning, Anna's first impression on Caro was a positive one. Caro had been through so much in the past several months that she appreciated every little thing Anna did for her such as dusting and cleaning her room, changing her sheets and bringing her a linen cloth with her meal. Unlike Harriet and Rose, Anna went out of her way to get to know Caro on a...
There is an abundant amount of movies that are inspiring to people, and throughout the years there have been empowering messages for some women. In Real Women Have Curves produced by Effie Lavoo and George brown, there is an empowering message for women of all types. The film is about a Spanish 18-year-old girl who struggles with a life of a regular Spanish woman. While this movie applies more towards Spanish woman it can also empower women of all types. Ana the main character wants to attend college, and she is a bright girl. The problem is she cannot attend college ,because, of the nature of the Spanish community she comes from. The mother constantly puts her down for her weight and not being marriage material. Ana is also expected to help the family with earning money, which is one of the reasons she is not being allowed to go to college. As the mother says, “I have worked since I was 13 years old now it is her turn” (). Ana’s mother believes Ana need to work for the family since she has become of age, and that she needs to get married because that is what women are supposed to do.
Throughout the entire novel Annabel shows that she keeps everything in. She has a secret that she cannot get herself to tell to anyone; “The worst part was that I had things I wanted to tell my mother… She'd been through too much…I could not add to the weight… I did my best to balance it out, bit by bit, word by word, story by story, even if none of them were true” (Hannah 106). Although I don’t have a big secret that I’m keeping in, I can relate to Annabel. I have trouble opening up to people. I feel like if I tell people things that are bothering me it will just burden them, so instead I keep everything in. Similar to Annabel, I know this isn’t the right way to deal with things, but I still can’t seem to get myself to change it. In the end of the book Annabel figures out how to deal with her secret, and eventually tells her boyfriend and family. I am also connecting Annabel’s boyfriend, Owen, to one of my friends. When Annabel was popular and had all her other friends, she thought Owen was a loner. He always had headphones in, he didn’t hang out with anyone, and he had been to jail in the past. She judged him based on those things and never got to know the real him. When she lost all her friends over the summer, she started sitting at the same table as him because everyone else hated her. She eventually learned the real him and realized that she was too quick to judge. I have also had a similar
Throughout the whole played Anne made a subtle change that made a large difference. In the start of the play Anne stayed to herself she never told anyone how she felt she just kept to herself. When she kept everything to herself the only thing she had to express her feelings was to her diary. But as the play went on she started opening up to people and telling them how she felt. For example she talked to her dad more about how she felt about being in hiding. Then toward the end of the play Anne would talk and be with Peter when she could. She learned how to cope and express her feelings with other people instead of keeping everything to herself to deal with societal challenges.
The tensions between them are clear, but being a sister they remind me of myself crying out for daddies attention when the other gets more, or I feel less like the favorite. Everyone wants to be the favorite. However, in greek mythology as women they will always come after and below men. I think this is the most important thing they have in common and should stick together for that
She was able to turn the isolation around and pride herself on it, taking it in as part of her personality, but that is a very early step in the process of fully coming to accept yourself and letting others in. She speaks repeatedly of her self-love; however, she also reveals that she feels like an actress in everyday life. There is so much evidence of deep-rooted insecurities written between the lines of her essay, but it seems she is too afraid to reveal these truths to herself, despite her “heightened awareness of her own tendencies.” Lying to oneself is the easiest and most natural thing in the
Anne always stays positive and supportive, for example, she says, “Whoever is happy will make others happy too.” This shows that shes always tries to stay positive not only for herself, but to keep
She loves to talk all about herself and how great she is at everything. This is exhibited while talking to Anne about all the boyfriends she had when she was little:
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Anna plays the role of the classic submissive female married to David's classic chauvinist male. "Wanting to remain attractive to her husband, Anna attempts to conform to the eroticized and commodified images of women promulgated in the mass culture" (Bouson 44). Although the novel is set during the 1970"s, the decade of one of the great feminist movements in our history, Anna remains a woman who maintains herself for her husbands benefit. In a critical scene in the novel, the narrator sees Anna applying makeup. When she (the narrator) tells her that it is unnecessary where they are Anna says "He doesn't like to see me without it," and then quickly adds, "He doesn't know I wear it" (41).
Additionally, the alienation that she felt between romance and objectification was not the only binary that Anna struggled with. She also struggled with feeling that she did not belong in England. She frequently mentioned that she was always cold and could never become warm. She enjoyed the warmth, sunshine, and outdoors in Jamaica and living in a cold and dreary environment was a dramatic change for her. This binary was one that caused her to feel depressed and sad, something that she repeated very often. She struggled with depression in almost all areas of her life and would lay in bed for hours. The depression that Anna struggled with hindered her development and extenuated her lack of agency. It also exemplified the lack of control that