The short story, "Tepeyac" by Sandra Cisneros, is about a woman remembering what it was like when her grandfather was alive. The author reminisces about the details of her childhood street. She thinks of the street side vendors, the old women, and all the people who lived near her. The author uses syntax and diction to make this story unique. Sandra Cisneros uses syntax by creating lengthy sentences that would normally be broken into paragraphs to illustrate her childish thoughts; she uses diction by incorporating Spanish words to give the reader a sense of what her culture was like. By using different writing techniques in this story set it apart from other stories. She is very descriptive when explaining her childhood street. Cisneros
The beauty of the story is about authentically conveying the author’s emotion experience, depicting the true feeling of the characters, and delivering the thought process by putting readers into their shoes, in order to create resonance with the readers, like her emotion for the love of nature, for her struggle towards money, and for the crush she had towards the hunter. Sylvia’s love of nature showed from “As for Sylvia herself, it seemed as if she had never been alive at all before she came to live at the farm. (5)”. She found her real self here, embracing the nature, knowing every life that lived here, and fully enjoying the freedom in the woods, just like a jungle fairy.
the plot in the story, the minimalistic style, and theme, the author better develops and conveys
by Julio Cortazar so unique? Is it the characters who do the same thing repeatedly over and over again daily? Or is it the house that was considerably enormous? Maybe the creeks in the house that add scares to the story?
The girl’s inner characterization resembles a coming of age character. She develops because of the action and her traits as a child are presented in contrast with her traits as a teenager. This contrast is emphasized using the third-person narrator at the beginning of
Mr. Tim Hernandez tells us the story of the importance of these men and women in these informative stories and is effective in doing so. He is effective because of his excellent use of pathos. He uses pathos throughout the entire novel. An example of his use of pathos comes from Tim Z Hernandez himself in the novel “It was clear she’d been waiting her whole life to speak of him, though at times it must have seemed easier to live out her days without ever thinking back at all.”(28). When Hernandez used this quote he really tugged at the reader's emotions.
In my opinion, the author, Ruta Sepetys, moves the novel in an interesting fashion. I liked how there are many characters and how there is a lot of things happening. The author kept the reader interested at all times throughout the novel. The author, Ruta Sepetys, who writes historical non fiction books just as this novel, was born the daughter of a Lithuanian Refugee which may have influenced her to write this very novel. It is geared in a positive way due to Joana, a main character in the novel, helping to portray this with her nursing skills. Seeing the book in the Character of Joana’s eyes affects the overall novel in many different ways. Some may be on Joana’s good side and others may be on her bad side.
I loved that you had added flashbacks to this story during the chapters and that you differentiated it from the other writings by changing the fonts of the flashback paragraphs. It revealed the loving relationship between Lina and her father and mother and how close they were such as the scene where Lina and her mom get ice cream. These flashbacks also gave a contrasting part of her life from their tough current life. She used to go and swim
She is extremely effective in supporting her main idea by supplying the reader with descriptive detail on how she grew up and how certain things took place in rural North Carolina during the 1960’s. These details grasp the reader’s attention immediately by implementing such detail that while reading the words on each page, a visual picture can be envisioned by the reader.
Her life was not easy, her husband got shot and was left alone yet she came back to care for him. That didn’t stop him from verbally abusing him. But when push came to shove, she just left because she kept expressing how she felt. She could have killed her husband if she let her anger pile on inside but she let it out and it made a lot of space in her heart to forgive her husband. Writing and other forms of self-expression have helped many others alike so this says a lot about the usefulness of the literary arts.
She wants the audience to know right away that even though she is about to tell you the story of a difficult childhood, she did reach her goal in the end. After making this statement, Tan dives into her past and how she came to be where she is today. Her mother is the next most important point of discussion. Her mother influenced her writing style as well as her beliefs about her culture and heritage. ?Just last week, I was walking down the street with my mother, and I again found myself conscious of the English I was using, the English I do use with her? (Tan, 2002, p. 36). The broken up English her mother uses is the next issue Tan focuses on. ??everything is limited, including people?s perceptions of the limited English speaker? (Tan, 2002, p. 36). Lastly, she talks about her education and the role it had on her deciding what she wanted to do with her life. ?Fortunately, I happen to be rebellious in nature and enjoy the challenge of disproving assumptions made about me? (Tan, 2002, p. 39). By structuring the essay in order of importance, Tan reinforces her message that you can be anything you desire even with a different culture than the norm.
wrote the story as the result of a challenge that was set to her, her
The author creates a mood of being irritating by her “…awful grandmother…” and brothers “…Alfredito and Enrique…” who are occupied playing outside as “… a B-Fifty-two bomber…” [paragraph 5] and her grandmother with a “… long, long list of relatives … names of the dead and the living into one long prayer…” [paragraph 10]. Including, the imagery provided in the short story described the character’s actions by watching her grandmother pray while she counts her grandmother’s mustache hairs. Later, an unknown lady and man start talking to her brother asking if she could take a picture, than judging by their looks, they assume they do not speak English but only
The strengths of this piece are that the story is harrowing as to what has happened to the character and the suffering she had went through
Write how she looks like she’s 12 and is barely 5'5, even though she’s 18. Juliana is most likely the clumsiest person you have ever met. Every time you see her she has a cast, band aid, or crutches holding herself up. And when she doesn’t, she is always sick - either from the flu, cough, sore throat, or some random disease. Write how she is so timid, that it affects and even becomes a barrier in most of the relationships in her life. The lack of voice in this girl were as if she was saving all her voice for a rainy day. Now don’t let the shyness fool you, after she has broken down her Wall of China she shows her true colors. Write how she merely shows people what they want to see, for she is still unware of her entire capacity.
In Tepeyac Sandra Cisneros uses a specific style of writing. She uses syntax and diction to create emphasis and to make the story more interesting.