The House On Mango Street And Romeo And Jatsby Analysis

In the story it says, “ ‘I know, I know. You’ve said that a hundred times,’ she snapped. ‘What did you say?’ He asked, pushing his newspaper aside.” Maria’s conflict connects to the theme of the story because she is being ungrateful towards her father and wants to grow up too fast. In the text it also says, “Maybe he would do something crazy, like crash the car on purpose, to get back at her, or fall asleep and run the car into an irrigation ditch. And it would be her fault.” This connects to theme because, Maria needs to be thankful for her family and, she is not acting very thankful according to this quote.

At first, Candence hides her guilt like any normal Sinclair. Then, with Gat’s help, she realizes that her family is selfish by not helping the starving children. Now, she wants to change her family and herself. Next year, Cadence starts a project where she gives away her belongings to the family. Usually, the Sinclairs like to own expensive and beautiful possessions, but she feels that is not her anymore.

When Sally got married she thought that she will escape from her abusive father and finally get her freedom that she had dreamed about before. Little did she know, her husband would be as protective as her father was over her, so eventually she had given up every aspect of her freedom. Looking out of the window was one of her last hopes and pleasures that she had but Sally’s husband didn’t allow her to do that either. Sally says that “She is afraid to go outside without his permission”(Cisneros, page 102). In this vignette, you could tell that Sally’s husband was the one that prevented Sally from having any freedom, which caused Sally to feel like she was trapped in some kind of a

Poverty also led the Lacks 's family to injustice for them and their mother 's cells because they simply couldn 't afford a lawyer. The book says, "So in attempt to get Hopkins to give them what they saw as their cut of the HeLa profits they made handouts about Henrietta Lack 's family being owed their due, and gave them to customers at Lawrence 's store". This illustrates that although Lawrence and Sonny couldn 't afford a lawyer, the next best thing was to spread the word, and also shows how they just had to make do with what they had. Rebecca Skloot shows how poverty was a major problem for the Lacks 's family in, "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks". Ranging from medical problems to being an easy target to having injustice.

This caused her to alienate herself since her mother asked her to keep a part of herself hidden from the world by binding her and making sure no one found out she menstruated ealy (Anzaldúa 1983, 221). This will later isolate her further but ultimately lead her to reflect on the racism that surrounds her. In addition, Anzaldúa’s identity also suffer because she denied her heritage and the traditions that with it. She mentions that she felt ashamed of her mother and her loud tendencies, it is an archetype that most Hispanic mothers are loud by nature, and the fact that her lunches, or “lonches”, consisted

1. Esperanza doesn’t go with her family on their Sunday outings because she is ashamed. She doesn’t want to be starting out of a window like hungry people. 2. The metaphor that is used to represent the separation between the rich and the poor is that the rich will have their own big houses.

However, she also kept in mind the mother’s reaction when the father approved the divorce and her threats of setting fire to herself with kerosene. As a result, the situation validates that the parents’ divorce impacted the narrator’s life and resulted to change her perception on how to approach her mother. Furthermore, the narrator fears upon meeting her mother since the divorce was also the result of her traumatic realization; Which is the stealing of “Persian Carpet” alluded the mother’s extra-marital affair influence the thought that their family relationships could not be mended. The narrator’s emotions were overflowing when she met her mother that

My mother says and sighs,” (90). This quote is showing Esperanza’s mom expressing her grief when talking about how she could have been somebody in life, since she had many talents. This quote is important because Esperanza doesn’t want to be like her mom; she can be considered a bad role model to Esperanza since she is trying to avoid becoming like her, however, she wants to become what her mom dreamed to be, which was just being something good in life. This is how Esperanza’s mom affects her

Writing using her own syntax technique puts an emphasis on what Dillard wants the reader to pay specific attention to throughout her essays. The expectations a reader might have concerning Dillard’s writing, putting a “hat” on her, is pushed away by Dillard because she knows the importance of writing how she wants, thereby exceeding the expectations of her readers. Dillard understands what it is like to sit under the shadow

“He snacthed up and empty bottle, busted off the end, and gave it to me, then reached in his back pocket and flipped out his switchblade”(45) This shows that the Socs were mad and ready to beat them up. At least they had protection, the girl Cherry saved them a beating by deciding to go home with the Socs so they wouldn’t fight. It was for the best but I am so sure that they could have taken them. The Socs are just ready to fight no matter where they are or who they are with they just hate the sight of