Julio Cortazar's Summer

While going through a hard time of her husband being gone and he grandmother passing away, Lilia wanted so bad to cross into America to have her family together. An old friend of Lilia’s from school offered to help get her and her child across to America. Seeing that she trusted the man she decided to allow him to help her. Lilia and her baby had to go with different coyotes. She went to the house of the man that was to be her coyote; he took Lilia to a woman coyote that would bring the child across. After leaving her baby with the woman, Lilia and her coyotes started their journey in a truck. She was to ride on the back that was covered with the man that was not driving; along the journey, the coyote raped her. They arrived at a river, which she had to swim across. Once across the water, she had to wait in a junk yard in the back of a car for someone to show up and call for her. She was taken to a house, where she would get her new identification, a new life. This is where she awaited for her child and her husband. While she was waiting she had to cut and dye her hair, she also watched a man being murdered. Day’s passes and her child never arrived, but Hector did. Hector was grateful to see his wife, but very upset that his child had not arrived. Hector, Lilia, and Miguel tried to figure out how to find the child, but had no luck. Hector asked his boss and his wife to help but they also had no

Another example of a story that would have been unknown to the reader is when Beli fell in love with the Gangster, and it eventually led to her having to leave Santo Domingo to go to America where she would be safe. If she had not fell for the gangster then she most likely wouldn’t have left and wouldn’t have met Oscar’s father in New York. If she hadn’t left then Oscar would have grown up in Santo Domingo rather than New Jersey, and Oscar’s worldview would have changed drastically. Diaz introduced the story of Beli growing up in Santo Domingo to show the difference between growing up there versus Paterson. The people that came before Oscar changed many aspects of his life and where he grew

How and when three of the four Mirabal sisters died is established before the book is even opened as it was a true event and it is identified in any summary of the novel. Yet the story is partially told by these three sisters anyway, creating an unbearable sense of tension throughout the book as readers wonder when they will read of their deaths. They also continually interact with Trujillo, each scene making the family’s

Throughout life, people go through changes, positive and negative. Some people can control how those changes affect them, and others choose not to. In Sonia Nazario’s reading, Enrique’s Journey illustrates the rural experiences one typically goes through in Mexico. Enrique starts out as a loyal, sympathetic young boy alongside his younger sister, Belke, in an utterly underprivileged town, Honduras. Enrique's mother soon decides to flee to the United States in an attempt to a better life for her family.

In “Summer Life”, Gary Soto takes the reader through a guilt-filled day from his childhood. He describes himself at 6 years old stealing a pie. Utilizing Biblical allusions, Vivid Imagery, and an immaculate diction

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

“Why did Fidel Castro do this to people? I can’t believe that the children had to go through this!” I thought to myself looking at the revolution from Lucia’s point of view. #2 The Red Umbrella, the book by Christina Diaz Gonzalez, takes place during a crisis for Cuban people. This book has two main characters, Lucia and Frankie, that lived in a house, close to the beach, in a town named Puerto Mijares in the 1960s. Lucia and Frankie had their whole life set for them, but they needed to be urgently sent to America and know what to do for themselves. They watch their entire world change like a caterpillar to a butterfly as the revolution continued. From the fragile kids who listened to their parents about mostly everything, to young adults who had to make most of their own decisions by themselves. Follow Lucia and Frankie

The reader could suggest a variety of possible meanings from the character’s actions and conversations in turn affecting what the reader may think because of unclear text. By examining the structure of the dialogue in the story, “House on Mango Street” the conversations that are presented between the characters represent ambiguity in several ways. For example when the nun asked the girl where she

The narrator’s horse gets spooked and takes off with him still attached, and Holly must ride hard, and with the help of a mounted police officer, they are able to stop the narrator’s horse. Later that evening, while Holly is tending to the wounds of the narrator in his bathroom, two detectives come and arrest her for being part of a drug operation. It seems that the “weather reports” were delivery schedules for shipments of drugs. After being arrested, José calls off the marriage because he can’t be associated with a criminal, so he writes her a letter and returns to Brazil. Holly has lost the baby due to the horseback riding incident.

The short story begins with a festival celebrating the beginning of summer in Omelas, which is an annual event that has games and music playing in the streets. At first Omelas seems like a perfect city that you would hear about in fairy tales. However, underneath this perfect like city is a dark secret that no one talks about, yet everyone knows about it. There is a single locked room that holds a child in the dark and has to stay there so that Omelas will have prosperity, beauty, and delight. “This is usually explained to children when they are between eight and twelve,” (Guin 3) or when they are able to comprehend why the child is in the locked room. Once they learn about the child they must face the question, will they stay in Omelas where all is perfect or will “They leave Omelas, they walk ahead into the darkness, and they do not come back.” (Guin 4)?

In The Caballero’s way by O. Henry describes a Mexican beautiful woman who lives in a Jacal with her father.

In this day and age it seems like hate groups are becoming more popular, which makes it well a talked about subject. But, it never got in to details about the reason hate groups were even created and why. In addition to getting more in depth with psychological part of an individual. In addition to why we are waiting until now to deal with the issue of hate groups and hate crimes in a more vigorous manner. With Recommendations that are provided for government officials to protect freedom while improving governmental awareness. Therefore, ensuring that the principles are supported over prejudice. Langston Hughes, “Song for a Dark Girl,” is a piece of literature is about an African American girl who finds her lovers body lynched in a tree. This poem expresses an experience that in that era was unfortunately very common.

“Like Water for Chocolate” by Laura Esquivel, is a beautiful romantic tale of an impossible passionate love during the revolution in Mexico. The romance is followed by the sweet aroma of kitchen secrets and cooking, with a lot of imagination and creativity. The story is that of Tita De La Garza, the youngest of all daughters in Mama Elena’s house. According to the family tradition she is to watch after her mother till the day she does, and therefore cannot marry any men. Tita finds her comfort in cooking, and soon the kitchen becomes her world, affecting every emotion she experiences to the people who taste her food. Esquivel tells Titas story as she grows to be a mature, blooming women who eventually rebels

Have you ever wondered how the Sahara desert came to be? Or question your father about his opinion? By comparing the myths Phaethon: Son of Apollo and Icarus and Daedalus it is clear that Phaethon was too proud to listen to an experienced God and Icarus wasn’t alert enough to listen to his dad but because they ignored the warnings of their father they lead themselves to a sorrowful ending. Ever since Phaethon could remember, his mother told him that his father was Apollo the sun god. Because of this Phaethon was full of pride. “As her son grew up, she would point to the place where his father dwelt.

Another detail that seems irrelevant when reading the story is when the narrator talks about the woman that she sees in the wallpaper. She says this on page 8.