From Confetti Girl Analysis

Have you ever been in a situation where rivalry comes to a point where everyone is seriously butting heads and you can not seem to find hope? To begin, many others have been there and experienced the same issues. If one person thinks wrongly about an issue, another may feel the same way. There are many others that experience things the same way; there are many people in the world that butt heads and can not find hope in the midst of darkness. In the passages of Tortilla Sun by Jennifer Cervantes and Confetti Girl by Diana Lopez shares the common theme of differences in points create tension between one another.

Tension (Noun): Tension is a mental or emotional strain caused by something or someone that typically induces anxiety, stress, or pressure. Oftentimes, throughout one’s life, one finds that when one is in a specific situation, tension occurs internally, and sometimes even externally between two people. Similarly, in Diana Lopez’s novel, Confetti Girl and Jennifer Cervantes’ novel, Tortilla Sun, the narrators have different points of view than that of their parents, causing tension. For example, in Diana Lopez’s Confetti Girl, the narrator does not like English at all, but because her Father does, she finds that at home, her Father is always asking her about her English class and how she is doing in the class; since her Father is so involved in the subject that he seems to disregard the narrator’s view on it, an internal tension forms within the narrator between her and her Father.

To conclude the stories “ Confetti Girl” and “Tortilla Sun” had a lot of tension through the narrators and their parents. The parents in both stories were being strict and had to have the last say. The narrator's were both over reacting in my opinion but to them there feelings were hurt. All in all tension rises through

As M.D. Helen Farrell analyzes, the relationship between Jack and his mother after their escape is a complicated one―: Jack 's belief system and knowledge of the world are turned upside down, while his mother strives to reclaim her own identity. Jack is forced to grapple with the concept of being a separate entity from his mother. Ma 's own conflicts in their new world prohibit her from providing Jack with much needed reassurance.

The obscure narrator in “Confetti Girl” feels like she is being neglected and abandoned by her oblivious father. The child envisions that her dad only cares about books and is leaving her high and dry her due to searching for a book when she narrates the following. “He might say I matter, but when he goes on a scavenger hunt for a book, I realize that I really don’t” (Lopez 26). This citation expresses that the child is feeling left out and not cared for. I can infer that this young girl feels like she is a nobody and that she doesn't even exist around her dad.

The Glass Castle is when Rose Mary pretended to be sick and it was up to the children to get their siblings ready for school. She blatantly refuses to cater to her own children’s basic needs. Lastly, Rex, the Walls’ father, brings a woman that is not his wife into the room and it is implied that he engages with intercourse with this woman. The issue with this is that his son, Brian, is right outside the room reading comics. He is witnessing, first hand, his father’s infidelity.

For Confetti Girl the little girl's differences with her father create conflict. One example is when

In Alice Munro’s story ̎ Boys and Girls ̎ the relationship between the narrator and her father and mother is not the same. The author describes the communication between the narrator and her mom: ̎ In this he was quite different from my mother, who, if she was feeling cheerful, would tell me all sorts of things […] ̎ (Munro 155). This quote shows a motherly and sweet relationship between the narrator and her mother. On the other hand, the communication with the dad is less friendly: ̎ My father did not talk to me unless it was about the job we were doing ̎ (Munro 155). The narrator experiences the various roles with her parents.

Family Relationships in “Boys and Girls” by Alice Munro and “Responsibility” by Russell Smith Families both modern and past share the commonality of complex and complicated relationships between their members. These relationships may be founded on love and support while others may have disappointment and a lack of understanding. While there exist some differences in the parent-child dynamic in “Boys and Girls” by Alice Munro and Russell Smith’s “Responsibilities”, they are similar in the child’s wariness of their parent’s choices, their personal struggles to accept their own paths in life, and the adult’s understanding of those choices and their subsequent disappointment in them. Many children find themselves wary of following too closely in their parent’s footsteps, and the children in these short stories are no exception.

What was it? Popular Mechanics written by the same author as “The Bath”, Raymond Carver, had the same issue illustrated in the book. The lack of communication is also a theme in Popular Mechanics”, but this time is between the parents who are separating and both fight to have the child. Again the author shows what kind of negative impact the lack of communication can have, in this case particularly with the child, which is caught in the middle of his parents

Valentine is the only reason Ender is hesitant to go with Colonel Graff to Battle School. They both love each other so much, so it is such a difficult decision for Ender. She seemed like the only person who cared and payed attention to Ender. Peter was a bully to Ender, and his parents resented him because of the past they were trying to evade. Another imperative quote from chapter 3 is in the beginning when the two anonymous voices were talking.

Because this job is dirty, he or she is thought to be stupid or poor. Paradoxically, people prevent relatives from going to the labor like Hercules while calling it "the salt of the sea" (n.p). At the request of parents, the youth goes on the same direction: colleges or universities, which are believed to provide a safe environment laying the foundation of useful knowledge and shaping characteristics. Silent debates between chasing dreams or living up to family’s expectation inside each individual result in risky decisions. However, in my point of view, some kids choose to go to work as an excuse for being too lazy to study.

The following groups feel that marriage should be dealt with in different manners. The functionalist believe that the incest taboo keeps the family members, from being confused about their role in the family, and it is a way to socialize the children. By feeling and believing this way, it leads them to look outside of the family for a wife or husband. They also believe that the new technology and all of the extra curriculum things for the family to do puts restrictions on the families. There is not any family time now as it was.

Characters in both stories, “Confetti Girl,” and “Tortilla Sun” are living with one parent who takes care of them. This makes room very tight for the parents, causing conflict and tension within the parents and kids. This also causes different mindsets/perspectives on what’s happening to seep into the kid’s minds possibly causing an alteration in the relationships with each other. “Confetti Girl,” by Diana López mentions a girl and her dad. They are eating dinner together as English

I’ll take it out of you.” (Ch. 5) He continued to go to school because it made pap mad, although he didn’t like it because he preferred to not be civilized. He ran away when pap kidnapped him, partly because he was sick of getting beat and dealing with his dad’s alcoholism, and also for the reason that he just wanted to be free.