Diana Lopez's Confetti Girl

As kids grow older, they tend to have different views about things than their parents do. And they become more rebellious. In the stories Confetti Girl Diana Lopez and Tortilla Sun by Jennifer cervantes, the daughters don't see eye to eye with their parent. Izzy, the girl in Tortilla Sun doesn't want her mother to leave for Costa Rica and her to be alone with her Nana. And the girl in Confetti Girl doesn't enjoy literature as much as her father does and feels like her father cares about books more than her.

Of Mice and Men: Lennie’s Mental Illness The novel, Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, is a story about two men and their companionship. The story takes place in California during the Great Depression. The two men have a dream to one day own a farm of their own. This dream never comes true and they are forced to work for someone else on a ranch for the rest of their lives.

The Secret Life of Bees is the first novel by Sue Monk Kidd as well as one of my favorite books. As an adolescent myself when I first read my book, I believe that the writer clearly portrays the psychological development of Lily which is influenced by her social environment. Through this paper, I will describe bio/psycho/social factors that have played different roles in a young girl, Lily Owens’ life who is also the main character of the novel, in searching her identity at her adolescence period as she transitions from childhood to adulthood. Sue Monk Kidd’s

The upper hand in arguments Dad yells at his son George stating who used all the toothpaste. Dad does not want to go down to the freezing basement because, he has only a towel around his waist. On the other hand, his son george has the appropriate clothes to go down the basement. His son uses the strategies that his dad taught him using the future tense. In this book, the author helps you understand all the strategies and tools not only to win arguments, but teach you about tricks you can use in everyday life to win arguments and discussions.

In “Wordsmith” by Young and “The Gold Mountain coat” by Fong Bates both passages show relationships between fathers and their children. The relationship between father and daughter in “Wordsmith” contrasts greatly with the type of relationship that Sam Sing has with his children. Although the relationships are very different, both passages show the importance of communication between family members. In “Wordsmith” the father is trying to fix the relationship between him and his daughter like how he is trying to fix the maintenance of the house, “he begins the... process of filling in the gaps...

“Philosophers say man forms himself in dialogue.” -Anne Carson. Everyone talks. Everyone has conversations on a daily basis. A person’s personality can be determined through how they speak.

Have you ever wondered how it feels to be misunderstood or to not understand? In the short stories “Confetti Girl” and “Tortilla Sun” they have the same thoughts and i’m here to explain them. Both of the stories have feelings of being misunderstood and to not understand. To begin, in the Confetti Girl in paragraphs 1-2 it talks about her mom in the past. She remembers what she used to do with her mom after school and now that she's gone everything has changed with her dad now.

The poems Childhood, by Margaret Walker, Father, by Edgar Albert Guest, and History Lesson,by Natasha Trethewey, all contain a similar aspect, which is that the narrators are looking back on parts of their childhood and remembering how their lives were never perfect. Childhood’s narrator looks back on a past where everyone around them was poor and generally had to mine to survive. We know this because of the first 6 lines, talking about the red miners. We also know that it was a rural area, given the 7th and 8th lines. Such a past seems pretty bleak for everyone who lived there.

In the Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison, the unnamed narrator moves to New York to escape from the hatred and discrimination of the 1930s southern men and women and to have more of a say in his community by making an impact in their society. Because the narrator was often timid on what comes out of his mouth, he would often either go against what is actually right in his eyes or not speak at all. One slip up on what a black man says and who the man says it to, the narrator could be in deep trouble with the white men. Additionally, the narrator also is being forced to agree with every word out of a white man’s mouth and do exactly what is being asked of him.

Joan Bauer wrote several fascinating novels. Two of her novels are Rules of the Road and Close to Famous. Bauer made several personal connections to her writings. Joan Bauer also incorporated a variety of literary elements such as figurative language, conflict, and theme to enhance her novels.