Popo Monologue

My boy grew into a man, my girl long and slender like the blossoming mimosa at the end of the drive. Pedrito took on a certain gravity, became an important man around here. And I, Patria Mercedes? Like every woman of her house, I disappeared into what I loved, coming up now and then for air. I mean, an overnight trip by myself to a girlfriend’s, a special set to my hair, and maybe a yellow dress.

At the beginning of the story, the protagonist, Cleofilas, had an illusion that all romance is like the ones she had seen on television. However, she soon realizes that her relationship with Juan Pedro was

She is the most sexually confused and repressed by her father. Her search for her sexual indemnity when trying to express herself as a young woman via letters with a German boy, leads to the fall out of hers and her father’s relationship. “Are you a whore” he asked her once her found the letters, (Alvarez, 19). Her father feels betrayed and that she disrespected him and their culture. Their relationship falling out leads to Sofia’s running way. She believes that leaving will display that she is independent, when in reality she merely replaces her father’s authority for a husbands. Years pass the she longing to reconcile with her father becomes evident. During a game at the party she is throwing for him she expressing her sexuality in the most disrespectful by kissing her father’s ears using tongue to express that she is a sexually being. “His face had darkened with shame at having his pleasure aroused in public by one of his daughters.” (Alvarez, 23). Ultimately her sexual identity and her traditional Dominican identity do not mesh and she clearly choices her sexual identity over the

How long have I been here? How long since I gave up my pride to grovel at the feet of ---?

My name is Mayella Ewell. I belong to the lowest of the low amongst the whites in Maycomb. I grew up in a poor family and never received any proper education. The only I have is probably being white. My dad and I want to have a better life, but dad doesn’t want to put any effort into doing so. My mom died when I was young and I became a surrogate wife for my dad. I wish I could have gone to school, but I have to take care of my children. My dad loves to go out and drink for the whole day. When he comes home, he often drunk and this is when he would rape me.

Guerra writes, “They abandoned me, one after the other. These days I can’t be like just any

Throughout The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, past events greatly affect Oscar’s present activities, attitudes, and values. Oscar Wao must continually contend with the thought of his breakup with Maritza Chacón as a seven year old, and this specific event contributes to the meaning of the work as a whole. Oscar’s breakup marks a transition in his life from being a stereotypical Dominican “player” to an overweight nerd. During his high school years and beyond, he continually searches for love. However, the search for love and urge to replicate his earlier romantic years ultimately result in his death because love acts as a curse throughout the novel. Oscar’s relationship to his childhood years heavily influence his activities and thoughts

She sometimes sits out by the creek and remembers her father telling her “I am your father, I will never abandon you.” (Cisneros 1) She remembers this only after she is a mother and this is when she realizes “How when a man and a woman love each other, sometimes that love sours. But a parent’s love for a child, a child’s for its parents, is another thing entirely.” (Cisneros 1) Surely by now she feels her love souring. She can not understand why Juan must drink all time and why he continues to beat after he promises that he will never do it again.

Already I know we are going to have so much fun (and drama) with these two. I kind of agree with as kids being closer and sort of falling apart as they grew older. To be completely honest they are both knuckle heads who need to get over themselves, but of course thats going to be a long way down the road. But yes, no matter what they are certainly going to act like brothers, I actually made Wallace purposly older by a year just so I could see him play that "I'm older than you card." I could actually see Wallace partially trying to prove himself to Bennett because to him Bennett is the pinnicale of Jazz sucess in his eyes at the moment as he hasn't been able to be close to anyone as close to it as him. I could see him being even partially angry seeing Bennett get to cocky since he had it all for a while and ruined it through his arogance, so like Wallace has

Not only is she forced into an arranged marriage, but she has no love for the boy that she is about to marry. From the day that she is arranged into a marriage and thereafter, she must deal with the fact that she will belong to someone else and that she is going to be the property of her husband. Her departure begins when her own family treats her “as if [she] belonged to someone else” (51). This shows the beginning of her departure because it is the start of the trials that she must overcome and deal with to continue with her journey. To make matters worse, Lindo’s family has to leave her because of a flood that wiped out all of her family’s land. Another trial that she faces is to get out her love-less marriage. She must leave safely while also keeping the honor and dignity of her family name intact. In order to overcome these trials, Lindo must transition to the fulfillment stage.

Love is a battlefield, for the cabral family this is true. Whether it’s Beli, Lola, or Oscar we see their constant struggle to find true love and how it shapes them. While reading The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz the reader sees how the Cabral’s struggle in relationships that are abusive, fatal, and fake. Most of these end with the characters more broken than before. Diaz argues through his main characters failed attempts at relationships that love is impossible to obtain who are oscar, beli, lola.

She gets excited when boys look at her on the streets. But her illusion of true love is destroyed by sexual violence. Her friend Sally’s behaviour towards boys contributes to Esperanza’s caution and distance by dealing with the opposite sex, too. Nevertheless, Esperanza does not stop dreaming of leaning against a car with her boyfriend in a place where that does not bother anyone. But she has set her standards higher than most of the women around her. She do not search for a man to escape from this place, she has seen too many unhappy marriages. Ruthie exemplifies such an one. She has run away from her husband and seems to be mentally disturbed. The young Rafaela is locked up by her husband because of her beauty. Nevertheless the tragic event is Sally’s which ends in abuse. Sally, Esperanza’s friend, only wanted to dream and share her love like Esperanza. Hurt and beaten by her father who just wanted to prevent the familiy’s ruin by Sally. To escape, despite of her minority, she marries a salesman. But unlike her wish, the abuse continues.

Five years after their marriage, Maria Lucia died of a sickness. Not only that, but the condition of Juan Diego’s uncle continued to get worse. With everything going on, Juan Diego needed all the time he could get to

In wartime, the only way to survive is to put the needs of your family before everything, even your life. Domingo, Alejandro, and Isabel are part of a group that is not blood-related, however they consider themselves family. They are bound by something much deeper: the obligation and sacrifice you must make for others in perilous situations. Over the course of the story, all made choices to put their lives and the things that they love most at risk to save their family.

In scenes “” and “” the use of character dialogue demonstrates how Sue motivates Thao’s actions in a negative way in the views of his family and in turn driving him towards attempting to join the gang. At the beginning of the scene when viewers are introduced to the inside of the Lor’s home, Thao is shown in the background doing dishes while his family talk about him in the foreground. His grandmother is discussing her frustrations of wanting her daughter to marry a real man and have “man in the house”. She rejects the notion that Thao could be that simply because he does whatever Sue orders him to do which is usually her chores which are considered feminine and something men should not have to do.