Confetti Girl And Tortilla Sun

The point of view Brush uses keeps the reader distanced and reserved from the events in the story. The couple’s thoughts are unreachable. The narrator is merely an observer to the situation; a customer in the restaurant. This point of view gives the reader a frustration at the distance between the abused woman and the narrator, as if it were impossible to be other than a removed observer.

The point of view is mainly third person. Whenever Ruby and Jonathan are sharing their thoughts, it is third person, but when the author speaks about the both of them together, it is third person plural. The narrator is omniscient. The point of view creates sympathy for the main characters because it shows their time together and how they came to form a bond so strong, that they fell in love with each other. Even though both characters are already married, the reader sees how they start to develop a relationship in a bad situation. Most times, when people experience something bad together, they bond for life. When the narrator talks about the tension that comes between the couple, the reader can see the thing that dissolves their tension is

Point of view is important in any novel. It allows readers to see and understand the events and characters in a novel. Depending on who is speaking, point of view can drive the plot and convey the thoughts of the characters in a story. In the novel, The Brief Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz, point of view plays a crucial role in narrating the life of the lonesome outsider, Oscar. The novel is narrated in first person, but Diaz chooses to disclose who the speaker is until later in the book. As the story progresses, there are clues that hint to the reader who the outside source narrating Oscars life is. Diaz uses Yunior to narrate a majority of the novel. This point of view lets the readers understand the Dominican culture through Yunior’s commentary and perspective. It also gives an outside perspective on Oscar which helps build Oscar as a character. Instead of using an omniscient third person or generic first person point of view, Diaz uses multiple characters to narrate the story. This ingenious idea gave the story a more personal and up close look at not only the life of Oscar, but also the lives of his sister, Lola, and his mother, Beli.

Based off of the point of views of the children, the reader can tell what the struggles are. In Tortilla Sun, the daughter has issues comprehending that he mother was going away for a whole summer to finish her university. The girl takes this as that her mom is putting herself first because in both stories, one parent is gone. This leaves Izzy, the daughter, hurt and non-content with her mom’s choice. In Confetti Girl, the young girl’s day starts off well until her father brings up conversations about his job. Things having to do with English. The daughter does not enjoy English and believes it should spoken only about at school. The father ignores that and continues on ditching his not well cooked dinner to find books, and dedicates his questions to reading and vocabulary. The daughter feels suffocated in the dad’s job and not her own hobbies. The two stories are different by in Confetti Girl, the parent’s selfish ways is mild compared to the one in Tortilla Sun. The dad in one does not leave the daughter which has it not too horrid to deal with. In the other story, the mother is leaving for a whole summer just to pursue her study. Tortilla Sun has a worse situation than in Confetti Girl. Children learn from their parents and if you show them to ignore what they think they might do that to their own children. Since in both stories, their is one missing

When writing a story, authors have to worry about ways to add tension to the conflict. To add to this aspect of a story, authors can make a twist in the plot, use more sensory detail, or introduce new characters. In Diana Lopez’s realistic fiction, “Confetti Girl,” and Jennifer Cervantes’s, “Tortilla Sun,” both the narrators have different perspectives from their parents. In the stories,”Confetti Girl,” and ,”Tortilla Sun,” the fact that the narrators have different perspectives from their parents adds tension to the conflicts by having characters disagree on a certain topic.

In the short story “The School,” written by Donald Barthelme, many different literary devices are being utilize like order of events, phraseology, point of view etc. The literary device that stands out the most in the short story “The School” is point of view. Barthelme uses point of view by making the teacher the story teller which gives the story a different mood than it would if it was told from a distinct perspective. Point of view is a position or perspective from which something is considered or evaluated (Merriam-Webster, n.d.)Barthelme’s use of point of view leads to the interpretation of the story in a totally unusual way which makes the story much less creepy than it should be.

In both stories Confetti Girl by Diana López and Tortilla Sun by Jennifer Cervantes, the main character's, both disagree with their parents’ points of view, which in the end causes tension in the family. Confetti Girl is a story about a girl who feels like her father gives more importance to his teaching career rather than her. This causes tension between them since the main character feels as she is second as to her father's career which is first. Quite similar to Confetti Girl, Tortilla Sun is a story about a girl who feels like her mother gives more importance to her research than her. This causes tension between them since Izzy felt like she was worthless compared to her mother's job.

In both Confetti Girl and Tortilla Sun, the narrators both disagree with their parents’ points of view, ultimately causing tension in the family.

Tension is a major aspect of literature that can be a great tactic to intrigue readers and enhance one's writing. Authors have a variety of different ways to build up tension, one of which is comparing points of view such as when there is an argument. When characters disagree on something and their points of view are compared, the intensity of the story or piece rises. This occurs in the two pieces, “Confetti Girl” and “Tortilla Sun” where the narrator and parent of the narrator disagree and their contrasting points of views can easily be shown to build tension and intensity. Differences in point of view in a writing piece can build tension throughout the piece such as in the two stories, “Confetti Girl” and “Tortilla Sun”.

According to Barbara Johnson, “To be in your children’s memories tomorrow, you have to be in their lives today”; this relates to the story since the two protagonists in the passages feel as though their single parents are not caring and loving them. The stories, Confetti Girl by Diana López and Tortilla Sun by Jennifer Cervantes, are about two daughters that are convinced that their single parents are being selfish and neglecting them; as a result, they become negative. In the two narratives, the narrators have points of view which is different from that of their parents; this creates tension in both pieces of writing due to the fact that the two protagonists faced tragedies in the past with their other parent and because the two girls feel as though their parents aren’t taking enough of an interest in them.

In the exerpt from Confetti Girl and Tortilla Sun, both narrators have a different points of view than their parents, causing their relationships to lose their sense of closeness. This independence created multiple cases of tension in both of the two stories. Tortilla Sun's narrator, Izzy, believes that her mother is being selfish and only thinking of herself because she wants to finish her college degree. This is explained in paragraph 34, when it says, "Opportunity? For me?

Confetti Girl by Diana lopez and Tortilla Sun by Jennifer Cervantes show the differences in points of view from the narrator's perspective and how those devising tension created from struggles that are built up by stress, anger, and loss.

In both “Confetti Girl and “Tortilla sun” , The Narrators both disagree with their parents points of view what cause tension

In conclusion, Point of View is an essential part of every story. It’s used, not only to build character's background and perspectives, and give an idea of the kind of world they’re living in, but to also build up conflict (whether it be between two characters, or a character and their society), which is also important to all

Tension, meaning mental or emotional strain, is felt by humans everywhere as a result of various scenarios. In “Confetti Girl” by Diana Lopez and “Tortilla Sun” by Jennifer Cervantes, both narrators find themselves disagreeing with the judgement of their parental figures, regardless of if their parents realize it or not. In both cases, the parent is presented with scenarios that they cannot alter to more benefit their children, and instead push them to adapt to the newfound conflict they are facing.