Barrio Boy's 'New Direction'

Through meticulous studies and firsthand accounts, she crafts a compelling narrative that follows the perilous adventure of Enrique, a Honduran boy seeking to reunite with his mom in the United States. Nazarios use of dialogue, sensory details, and vivid imagery immerses readers in Enrique's experiences, eliciting empathy and understanding for his situation. In her editorial pieces, Nazario adopts a more concise and persuasive writing style. She distills complex issues into succinct arguments, using rhetorical gadgets including appeals

When you are looked down upon, it is harder to learn things. “The whites and Mexicans saw the tide coming up National Avenue from the east and barricaded themselves, both emotionally and physically. We were fresh from Tijuana, part of the first tide that caused white families to hide, then flee” (91). Urrea may have been teased about his inability to speak Spanish because he wasn’t welcomed into communities as much as others would be. The blacks were the ones who didn’t accept Mexicans in the neighborhood.

The world often debates whether you make your character, or does the world shape you to be the individual you become. The book “Enrique’s Journey” written by Sonia Nazario is a story about a son reuniting with his mother. Enrique, from a young age, always lived a rough life that was full of hardships. Since his mother went to America, it hasn’t gotten any better, so Enrique sets out on a quest to cross the border and find his mother. On this adventure, he experiences how cruel the world can be.

The stories “Contents of the Dead Man’s Pocket”, “The Leap”, and “The Trip” all explore aspects that are drastic for the characters and are thrilling to the audience to read. Common elements can be found in each story. Even though each story is similar, each story has a unique way of hooking the reader that stays true to the theme and plot.

A typical novel, flooded with the complexities of the author’s creative mind, conveys the plot amidst vivid descriptions of the setting and

The classic tale of the hero's journey can be recognized in almost every situation. It is not only apparent through daily life and historical events, but in this circumstance, a fictional novel, as well. As an epic voyage, it can be recognized in the vast majority of books throughout the course of history. One specific example where it is carefully and intricately exhibited is in Sue Monk Kidd's novel, The Secret Life of Bees, in which a young woman's search for acceptance and the truth becomes a heart-warming chronicle. Through the obstacles and people she meets, Lily is able to experience the trials and self-fulfilling incidents that are required in the hero's journey she partakes in.

“Juan was 7 years old and is new to the country from Mexico. Juan and his parents do not speak any English. Juan has moved to an area that has a very low immigrant/ELL population and are not familiar with proper ELL student teaching techniques. While brainstorming, one staff member suggests just simply putting Juan into a mainstream 2nd grade classroom he will quickly pick up on English because it will be all around him. The staff member claims that they heard this was the best method because if you allow Juan to have any Spanish materials or speak to him in Spanish, which no one really knows at the school, he will be babied and not want to speak English anyways. Without any other knowledge to go off the staff decides to follow through with this plan. After being placed into the mainstream classroom and hearing nothing but English Juan quickly becomes scared and stand-off-ish. Juan becomes resistant to anyone trying to communicate and begins to seclude himself from the rest of his peers. Juan does not attempt to

Kate Chopin and T. Coraghessan Boyle made excellent use of the elements point of view, character, and setting in their short stories “The Storm” and “Greasy Lake”. Kate Chopin’s characters and events follow the setting—the storm. This greatly enhances her work. Boyle’s characters mirror his setting as well—a greasy lake. It is amazing how much greater depth and deeper the insight is for a story when the potentials of elements of writing are fulfilled and utilized.

The “hero’s journey”, coined by Joseph Campbell, is a pattern in the plot structure of literature, myths, and oral tradition in which the hero is consistently faced with similar obstacles and achieves many of the same goals. The first part of the hero’s journey is “The Call.” The hero is usually living a very comfortable and easy life, unaware of the journey ahead. The hero is then faced with a situation or dilemma which eventually causes them to seek change. The hero, at this point, tends to refuse the call to adventure in fear of the unknown. Once the hero has been given the strength to push past the unknown, they have entered the threshold. The hero will experience many challenges and temptations where the hero is tested, eventually reaching “The Abyss,” the most difficult challenge. The hero is then transformed by these trials and returns home to every-day life and begins to contribute to their society. The novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston, the protagonist, Janie, experiences the hero’s journey first-hand through overcoming obstacles and transforming herself. In Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston, the heroine Janie overcomes many obstacles and is therefore transformed into a self reliant woman.

The novel, ‘Enrique’s Journey’ follows the difficult quest of a Honduras boy in search for his mother after she is forced to leave her starving family in order to find work in the United States. Lourdes, Enrique’s mother, knows she will not be able to afford to send them to school, and they would be forced to grow up in poverty as she did when she was a child. Finding work in the United States was Lourdes only way of being able to send money in order to support her family. As a boy, Enrique and his sister Belky are were also split apart from one another, leaving Enrique completely alone. Over the years, Enrique often shuffled from one home to another, eventually spending most of his young life with is grandmother, while his sister sets out to get her education and is well cared for by their aunt. After the depression sinks in for Enrique, he turns to drugs for comfort and begins to rebel against his grandmother. She eventually kicks him out and he is faced with the sobering reality of being completely alone. Frustrated with his mother, and the circumstances he faces in life, Enrique embarks on a

Characters bring a variety of purpose and perspectives to a story. Some characters stand out more than others; some have more depth, while in contrast some have less. In most cases, we become primarily familiar with the main characters in a narrative. Dominican-American writer, Junot Daz, employs a main character who brings a youthful perspective in his short story The Money. This narrative entails a twelve-year-old boy, Yunoir, and his experience of his impecunious immigrant family’s apartment in New Jersey being robbed while on vacation.

Joyce Carol Oates has captivated the imagination of the reader within her short story The Abduction. There are many components to making a story great as well, and in his Ted Talk “The Clues to a Great Story”, Andrew Stanton goes into detail about the dos and don’ts of story. Joyce Carol Oates uses several of the positive references from Stanton’s Ted Talk throughout her short story to grab the reader’s attention and envelope them into the story of a girl gone missing.

In Richard Rodriguez's essay , “ Aria: A Memoir of a Bilingual Childhood ” he writes about how he struggled as a child who only spoke Spanish language but lives in a society where the “public” language is English . He believes that speaking proper English will somehow help him fit into society and find his “true” identity. Throughout the essay he contrast the Spanish language identity and English language identity. As a young boy, Rodriguez finds consolation and safety in his home where they only speak Spanish. He feels that he only has a true identity when he is at home surrounded by those who speak the same language as him . On the contrary , he becomes trapped and disoriented when not being able to speak / understand the English language . He feels as if he is not part of “their world” and has no identity in society. By comparing and contrasting Spanish language identity and English language identity . Rodriguez's essay is an example that speaking different languages should not make anyone choose an identity . In fact being able to speak and understand multiple languages in his case Spanish and English makes the language a part of his identity, but with two different sides .

Authors of great stories often use good technical writing skills. The purpose of this essay is to compare and contrast two short stories: Where Are you going, Where Have You Been by Joyce Carol Oates and Hills Like White Elephants by Earnest Hemingway. The comparison and contrast will be done based on their use of plot, point of view and character development.

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