Sophie's Enitre Personality

In the memoir, “The Distance Between Us,” by Reyna Grande, Natalio makes a decision which cost him to lose everything he once had. Natalio leaves Juana and his three kids to make money in El Otro Lado to build his dream house in Mexico. Since he couldn’t make enough money on his own, he takes the mother of his three kids as well. This decision creates a distance between all of them, because no matter how close by they are in Los Angeles after they migrated to the United States the harmony amongst his family is never established. Mago, Carlos, and Reyna get humiliated as they are left with their wicked grandmother Evila. They are looked down on as orphans. Their economic status in Mexico makes them want to give up on school. As the father dreams

I still wanted him to love me, something that never seemed strange or contradictory until years later, when he was out of our lives” but that seems like too much to ask. His father does not only treat him like crap at home but in public too. At the party, Papi humiliates Yunior in front of everyone when he tells him “If you eat anything, I am going to beat you. ¿Entiendes? I nodded. And if your brother gives you any food, I will beat him too. Right here in

Although Yunior commits very uneducated acts, he is very observant, showing that he’s very thoughtful when concerning other people other than himself. For example, in Drown when arriving at his house he notices his mom and says, “she’s talking to my father, something she knows I disapprove of. He’s in Florida now, a sad guy who calls her and begs for money. He swears that if she moves down there he’ll leave the woman he’s living with, These are lies, I’ve told her, but she still calls him”(101). In this quote, Yunior is very descriptive on what he notices his mother doing. He talks about how his mother always gets bought

Here we are revealed more about human nature. Just like any society that instills fear into its followers or citizens that is exactly what the father does with his family. The father is the figure of power of this family and instead of leading with love and kindness he demonstrates his power through fear and dominance. We are able to see that the family in itself is a whole and loves each other, yet there is this rift between each family member that is threatening to tear it apart. For example, when Yunior gets in trouble with his father and his brother is around instead of standing with Yunior and speaking up Rafa backs away and avoids any confrontation with their father in order to avoid his wrath. This makes Yunior look down on his brother in a sense that Rafa doesn’t have his back at times when he needs him most, so he truly can’t trust him (Shreve & Nguyen, 2006). This is just the small part of the family for there are even parts of the whole family that act in a similar fashion.

He does not take responsibility for his actions and always feels the need to blame someone else. He doesnt try in school, he doesn't try to communicate with other and he doesn't try to grow up either. He thinks like a child and that smoking and drinking will not heal the pain any faster or fill an empty spot in your life. That it only makes you feel temporarily happy and even more crappy in the long run.If you flunk a class it reflects back on you and you simply get the ax just as Holden did. In the future when you look back you’ll end up asking yourself if it was all worth it and you’ll begin to miss it all. “ Don’t tell anybody anything. If you do you start missing everybody.” pg. 214

As a result of these roles, the daughter’s and mother’s perspectives differ greatly, thus adding tension between the characters. Since the family moves a lot, the teenage daughter has her own concerns. Such as, making friends, and trying not to be the “new kid” in school all the time. On the other hand, the single mother, has other concerns. These include trying her best to support her daughter, and going to Costa Rica to complete her research so she can graduate; and this is all “for the better,” for her and her daughter. In an intense argument about moving to Costa Rica, the mother states, “...this a wonderful opportunity for you,” the daughter responds, “Opportunity? For me? Or for you?” This depicts the rising tension between the mother and daughter. It is obvious that in this scenario, the daughter felt like she was powerless, and that her other always gets to decide everything. This causes the daughter to become contrary and withdrawn. At one point in the story, the narrator goes into her room, and ignores her mother who is trying to talk to her from the other side of the door. In the text, her mother states, ‘She paused for a moment then continued. ”Would you please talk to me?”’ This emphasizes the conflict between the two, since the tension at this point reached it’s peak. Since the daughter isn’t replying to anything her mother says, this really implies the emotional stress both the mother and daughter went through. In general, it’s hard to constantly switching schools and trying to make new friends, but in this case, it becomes evident that the narrator is at the end of her line. She can’t take it anymore, all the moving, and “fitting in.” This establishes a strong sense of emotional struggle from the narrator’s perspective. By doing so, the author makes it blatantly obvious that the

He was used to live in his brother’s shadow, but when the boat accident happened to them, he was the only one to survive. As he was always indentifying himself the less important one, he considered it was wrong that he was the one who would still have a life. As a result of nervous breakdown, he tried to kill himself with cutting his wrists in the bathroom, fortunately his father found out and save him. Then he went to the psychiatric for four months. When he comes back, there are still issues he needs to deal with.

Negocios gives us a good understanding of what a lot of families went through during this time of the Dominican diaspora and how hard it was to actually stay connected. Both Diaz and Danticat show how the decisions the fathers decide to make affect their families negatively, emotionally, and physically traumatizing them. Diaz’s character, Papi, is a good symbol all in all of being selfish and it’s something he demonstrated throughout the whole story. This trait leaves his family hurting more than what he realizes and is what Yunior is able to express. Papi’s family was being emotionally traumatized and did things for his own selfish reasons even when he was just a couple feet from the rest of his family. He gave off the impression from the beginning that family wasn’t the most important thing to him when he continued cheating on Mami in DR, letting his whole family realize how much value they actually had to him. “On the second night away from the house, with the puta asleep at his side, Papi had a dream that the money Mami’s father had promised him was spiraling away in the wind like bright bright birds.” For his own selfish reasons, even while cheating on Mami, her money became something more important than his wife herself. In bed with the same woman responsible for the fight that led him to her bed in the first place, he was not at all described as feeling remorse for what he was doing and simply remembered it was Mami’s father giving him the money to start over. Both characters are able to use the similar trait of selfishness

The author is using double narrative to emphasis the fathers interdependent self, while we are seeing Yunior struggle between his independent and interdependent self. The father has proven his authority through physical and verbal abuse that his son does not want to out his father's cheating. Part of Yunior interdependent self is doing as he is told by his father and not going against him or there will be punishments. His independent self struggles with the impact of his father cheating on his mother and wanting to tell her. Many times throughout the story, he reflects back on the meeting of his father's mistress when seeing his mother and father together in public. Yunior ultimately decides to follow his interdependent self and not tell his mother

developing a mind and will of his own. He is no longer unperceptively loyal to his father.

In addition, if being rejected again and again not only by his own father and

When his father left the family, he had to be more responsible, he has to look after his sister and his mother, and everyone expected him to act like an adult, even though he is just a teenager.

Yunior’s altered ego and struggles began after he moved to America with his father. Yunior came with his mother and oldest brother from Santo Domingo to live in

The boy has some psychosocial development that he lacked as well. Due to being isolated from any human contact at such a young age, he was unable to adapt to any social life, and also was unable to communicate because he didn’t develop that properly in that matter.

Fleur would be an interesting character to add to the role play, because she would only do things for her own personal gain. Ever since she was a child, she would only to things for others to benefit herself and only herself. It is very rare that she would do a favour for someone else without expecting something in return. Though to her luck she hasn’t been exposed yet. Which has allowed her manipulation and greed to be masked by her faux charismatic personality. If Fleur wants something from someone, she’ll plaster a beaming smile on her face and use cute pet names to lure her victims in. Which leads me to believe that Fleur would avoid anyone who would have the power to reads thoughts or emotions. In fear of that they might expose her for