Over the past week I have been watching "Lo que la vida me robó ". This is a traditional telenovela developed in Mexico by Angelli Nesma Medina. Honestly, when I first was reading about the different telenovelas that I could pick from, I never imagined that this would be the one I would choose. I didn't see myself really getting into it. Boy was I wrong! This story has so many twists and turns you just have to keep watching. I am obsessed and so excited to keep watching.
I'm gonna give you guys a brief overview of what "Lo que la vida me robó " is really about. There is a family, the Mendozas', who used to be rich but now, mainly due to the fact that their son, Dimitrio, has bad gamboling problems, are poor. While the father, Lauro, wants
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She's naive and really doesn't seem like theres a thought going through her head that isn't about love and who she will marry. While I know this is typical of a telenovela protagonist, she really isn't a person I care for so much. She basically does whatever her mother tells her and then cries about it. I don't like how she is portrayed. There was one point when they had her say something intelligent and kind but that was very short lived.
José Luis Álvarez is by far my favorite character. While he has been arrested, shot at, and verbally abused all because of Monserrat's family, he still loves her and would do anything to return to her. This, while not exactly smart considering the danger he has gone through, is romantic and respectable.
Finally, Alejandro Almonte. I'm not sure exactly how I feel about him. He too has been roped into Graciela's game and is paying the price but he did try to buy Monserrat. I truly believe that I will eventually love Alejandro, I'm currently on team José Luis.
Despite my critics on the characters, I do really enjoy this show. I think it is well done although the family life seems a little out of date considering it was made in 2012. I can't wait to continue watching and see what curveballs "Lo que la vida me robó " throws at me
To start off, Alvarez picks Sinita, a girl whose whole family has
He is a star baseball player and the most important character. Uncle Ramon and Gabriel are mentors who try to help him. Uncle Ramon is like a father figure and he is the baseball coach. Gabriel is also the initiate. He isn’t completely accepted by Julio and is having to earn his trust.
Lourdes,Enrique's mother decided to move to the United States from Honduras in order to support her two children financially. She hoped to get enough income to take her children to good schools and be able to provide for their basic needs.she also hoped they could live a better lifestyle than she did. Enrique was too young to understand that Lourdes left and that she was not planning to come back soon,Although the family knew about it,they were not able to explain to Enrique. He was cared for by different relatives and he finally ends up with his paternal grandmother,He starts to sell food to meet the family expenses. Due to frustrations and anger towards his mother,he turns to drugs and he ends up being kicked out because his grandmother could not stand his behavior.
She seems to be a stay at home wife who doesn’t seem to do a lot. She spends her days at home in her bed or she’s in the parlor with her ‘parlor family’. Like most people in society, she is wrapped up in the parlor family and believes them to be real. She is totally encapsulated by the ideas that society has implanted in her. She doesn’t seem to pay much attention to Montag and doesn’t really seem interested in what he has to say.
Tone/Mood: “ ... I would use her notebooks to reclaim the past and overcome terrors of my own…” (Page 1) The first page really sets a dreadful tone for the entire book. Isabel Allende uses words like “terrors”, “defenseless”, “mourning”, “powerless”, “indecent”, and “disgust”. I feel as though the ending of the book will as somber as the beginning of it.
Alvarez unfolds how Trujillo impacted her mother in a chronological order in a revealing way. Alvarez explains at first that her mother adores Trujillo. It was the way of life for the Dominican Republic people. She was raised to be this way in a life of her eyes revolving around this dictator who showed to be really good, but was not good at all. An example of a false representation of the dictator is Stalin or Hitler.
As the story progresses, Maribel develops a relationship with the neighbor boy Mayor and eventually kiss on the beach. Meanwhile, Arturo is killed in a confrontation with the boy who assaulted Maribel and his father. Maribel and Alma decide to travel back to their home in Mexico, but Alma does realize that Maribel’s condition is improving. Maribel and Alma’s relationship develops and changes throughout the story, starting a distant and not loving relationship, and ending the story with the relationship they had before the accident. This important relationship throughout the story also contributes to the main theme of the novel, which is the pursuit of the American Dream.
Gabe, even though dead, was a very good character. He had a attitude and personality. I felt bad for Dan the whole time, because he is trying to help his bipolar depressive wife, but he is having a hard time with it. She has been like this for over sixteen years. He has loved her through it all, but in the end she leaves him, but we all know that it was for the best.
The song “Que Falta Me Hace Mi Padre” by Vicente Fernandez is a spanish song. The song was released on September 26, 1996. The genre of his music is Rancheras which are really popular in Mexico where it original comes from. Vicente fernandez wrote this song in honor of his dad.
The person she gets along with the best is Celia because they reminisce about where they came, speaking in Spanish and pointing out the differences between their country and America. Her inability to make connections is due to her criticalness and her wariness. She doesn't hold herself too well during difficult situations. For example, she worked up a lot of courage
In the end, Juan was a slave who eventually became a free man who loved to paint. He has had struggles and successes and even luck that had lead to him being a free man, which most slaves did not ever experience one moment of freedom. The book also shows many of the aspects of a renaissance life for a slave and how important painting was to these
Esperanza wins because Tio Luiz stopped bothering them. Esperanza and her mother said it was better to flea. Abuelita was not in California and start a new life in America. Esperanza thought it was going to be like it was going to be like mexico but it turned out they held to live in tiny houses they had to work for money.
In the poem “You bring out the Mexican in me” by Sandra Cisneros, she begins to create a close relation with the reader by addressing the nameless lover as “you”. As Cisneros begins to utilize amplification by repeating “you” in every stanza; she makes an emphasis of the importance that the nameless lover has over her. To begin, by reading the title “You bring out the Mexican in me,” it can be interpreted that the deep emotions of passion that are perhaps hidden, are inevitably brought out to the light by the nameless lover. In the first stanza the word in italics “lagrimas” written in Spanish, translation in English for “tears,” makes the emphasis on the emotional aspect of crying for love.
Que Vivan Los Tamales analyses the history of Mexico's evolving national identity via food. Mexican cuisine has changed dramatically from the the era of the aztecs, to the period of Spanish colonialism through to the Porfiriato dictatorship. Through these periods we we see food being used in a manner to unify the nation and create a national united identity. Below I will argue how the country attempted to unify its people though cuisine. When the Spanish conquered Mexico, they tried to impose old world techniques and spices onto the Mexicans.
She is kind to all the people she comes across, and rarely goes against other people’s expectations