Tortilla Sun Character Analysis

By examining the story and listening to sisters viewpoint, the reader can speculate that emotions played a tremendous role in the story. This classic case of jealousy is not fueled by pure facts but rather high emotions and immense anger. The combination of these two elements makes the narrator's version of the story seem inaccurate. However, the narrator was still mistreated to a certain degree, but not the level of injustice to which she is describing throughout the story.

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Have you ever been frustrated with your parents or parent? In the stories, Confetti Girl and Tortilla Sun, the both narrators have a hard time making peace with their parent. In both stories, the problems are creating tension between their family, and it’s because of the difference in points of views. Such as the daughter in Confetti Girl, she is frustrated on how the dad is not paying attention to her wants and needs. Also, how she prefers on talking about something meaningful to her than about books. To continue on that thought, in Tortilla Sun, the girl is furious since her mother doesn’t understand why she doesn’t want to leave. Therefore, differences in points of view create tension because, the parents were alone in raising their children, and both narrators wanted to regain closeness to their

In Central America, some parents leave their children, and set out a journey to the United States in hopes of making a better life for them. Throughout the years, the children who are left behind eventually go on a journey to be reunited with their family. On the journey, the children acquire many character traits and skills that ultimately make them grow as a person. In the book by Sonia Nazario titled Enrique’s Journey, author Nazario writes about Enrique, a young Honduran boy, who goes on a long and strenuous trip to find his mother. In the article “Desperate Voyagers,” by Ioan Grillo, it talks on the subject of children fleeing their country due to gang violence. The majority of the children who have crossed into the U.S are usually reunited

Copper Sun written by Sharon Draper, is an emotional book about a girl named Amari.

Enrique’s Journey is a real life story based on a son and his mother having to be seperated from one another due to the migration of the mother to the United State. Enrique’s mother Lourdes left Enrique in their hometown of Honduras at the age of 5, Enrique was devastated he could not handle the pain of being without his mother. After being separated from each other for 11 years Enrique was confident and gained all the strength inorder for him to reunite with his mother whether he has to make the dangerous odyssey of crossing through the border. Family abandonment leads to unimaginable repercussions.

For instance, in Confetti Girl and Tortilla Sun, both lose a parent. Which gives them a sense of hopelessness. In Confetti Girl the dad and the daughters have trouble connecting. In the beginning of the passage, it states “Mom always had after-school projects waiting for me.’Can you help decorate cookies?’she'd say. Or, "Go outside and pick some flowers.’ Or, ‘Fix my nails, please.’” She loved to paint them, but since she wasn't coordinated with her left hand, her right-hand nails looked like a preschooler's coloring page.”(1) This quote shows how she and her mom had strong connections, and after she probably was gone, the connection was lost, and it’s harder with only one parent. That's what creates tension since one bond between a parent was lost, it was harder to have such a great connection when there’s one

In the excerpt,“Why can't I go with you?’ I said. ‘Izzy…” ‘New Mexico is worlds away from California, And what am I going to do for two whole months with someone I haven't seen since I was six? That was half my life ago. She's a stranger!’ I felt a sudden urge to bolt for the front door and run.” it is clear that Izzy really wants to go with her mother but her mother is not allowing her and instead, sending her to her Nana’s house. And that last sentence shows the amount of tension added to the conflict as Izzy wants to “bolt for the door and run.” And. also, in the quote,”Honey, you can make friends at your new school in the fall, Besides, this is a wonderful opportunity for you.’ ‘Opportunity? For me? Or for you?’I stormed off to my room and threw myself onto my bed. I ached inside. Like the feeling you get watching a lost balloon float far into the sky until it becomes an invisible nothing.”, Izzy now thinks that her mother is being selfish by not letting her go, but her mother sees it as an opportunity. And now, compared to the first quote, the tension has increased, as now Izzy has actually run into her room. So, the tension is added when Izzy and her mother have different viewpoints about weather Izzy should come with her (Izzy’s mother) or not turn into

In Tobias Wolff’s short story “The Liar,” the protagonist, James, lies to help him construct a new identity outside of his family. James tells morbid lies about his mother in order to distance himself from her. Since, the loss of his father, James no longer associates with people who are like him. The lies started after his father’s death and his mother starts noticing how much differently he was acting. Since his mother is treating him like she is disappointed in him, James begins to devolve into a state of repressed bitterness. These lies are his way of expressing himself in a new reality to match his wishes. One example of this is when James says, “Felt like a failure. My lying had that effect on her. She took it personally… She thought

To start out in the first sentence of the story the grandmother was brought up. “The grandmother did not want to go to Florida” (O’Connor 1). It says she wanted to go to east Tennessee. She tried to get her son Bailey not to go to Florida, and she also looked down on the mother for wanting to take them to somewhere they had been before, when she had been to Tennessee before. She broke her own moral code.

Rejection can make one feel alone, helpless, and out of place, and it’s a feeling that can make someone feel like they are no good, or that they aren’t worthy of a good life. All throughout the story, we are given examples of how the young girl is shamed and rejected. She was never accepted for who she was and this made her do things, sometimes extreme to help out her family. She knew she would never fit in, and her actions proved just that.

When becoming a mother, the first instinct is to protect and raise a healthy child at whatever cost. Habits are drop as well as large life changes. The last bite is given as well as altering one’s life style to insure the child has no needs. This could mean getting rid of negative, toxic people who could pose as a threat or even a sleeping pattern may need to be altered. However, the child comes first and the mothers wants are secondary.

While in the background of the officer reading the juvenile file, seated behind Lani was her mother. Puffy red eyes since refusal of sleep, salty tears dripping down her face, with heavy sobs that echoed through the courtroom. The courtroom began to look at the blur with color. The misery this mother felt locked in her throat, also feeling as if nothing matters now. As the third offense was being read, Lani finally glimpses to see her mother, and in clear view she saw a heartbroken mother. The sudden shock of pain and goose bumps went through her body. Instantly a stream flow of salty tears came down her face.

In the play Raisin in the Sun written by Lorraine Hansberry takes place on the southside of Chicago where Walter and his family are racially profiled and show us how the survive throughout their struggles. The central struggles for the younger family in their search for the American dream is mostly poverty and being racially profiled against for their actions.

The American sense of loss is very much present in Marsha Norman’s “ ‘night, Mother”. The very first few lines of the play indicate that Jessie, the protagonist of the play is planning on committing suicide. The loss of free will –the major existential trauma- renders Jessie to suffer psychologically throughout her previous life. Therefore Jessie, meticulously orchestrates her own suicide as a final act of total control--something she had never possessed in her life. There is no desperation in her actions, only a controlled, deliberate, execution of a well thought-out plan to free herself from a meaningless existence.