Compare And Contrast Confetti Girl And Tortilla Sun

When parents start to neglect their own children’s interests, it shows in the children. Two novels illustrate this concept vividly: Confetti Girl and Tortilla Sun. Although these two have very spontaneous titles, this does not make them one of the same. In fact, Confetti Girl and Tortilla Sun have a world of differences, but also some similarities as well. To start, there is Confetti Girl. To summarize the passage, a father, and her daughter are eating dinner and the daughter is talking about school. The father asks her about the education aspect, and not so much about the social part. This angers the daughter, because of the fact that he cares more about education than his own daughter. “Nothing’s more important than his books and vocabulary words. He might say I

First, both are the parents are single. Something must have happened to them because they are not present in the passages as there in the present, but rather as memories. Also, with this, the narrators would reminisce about all of the enjoyable experiences with their lost parent. The existing parents seem to care more about education rather than their own child. In Confetti Girl, the dad is oblivious to the fact that there his daughter does not want to talk about her English class. The daughter is not happy with her dad being so oblivious to the fact that she did not want to talk about her English class, and would rather talk about her social life. In Tortilla Sun, the mom is just being selfish, and really not taking her own daughter’s feelings into consideration. “ ‘Opportunity? For me? Or for you?’ ”(Cervantes 11). She kept preaching about the new opportunities for Izzy, but Izzy knew it was just to convince her to travel to New Mexico.
In fact, Confetti Girl and Tortilla Sun have a world of differences, but also some similarities as well. Both parents are interested only in their children’s education and say they care, but really do