Summary Of Money By Junot Diaz

To understand the poetry, it is important to know the poet. Dana Gioia is known as the face of Formalism. Formalist use the poetry elements of free verse, narratives, rhyme, and meter. In reality, Gioia fought for “poet’s freedom to use whatever style he or she felt was right for the poem” (Johnson 2011). His poetry often focuses on themes associated with life’s struggles and responsibilities of the middle-class. His second book The Gods of Winter appeared in 1991 and consists of poems created from grief after losing his young son to Sudden Infant Death (Mason 2015). Yet another short poem in the volume will make you laugh with its play on words until its meaning is understood. Dana Gioia’s poem “Money” demonstrates how the poet uses the poetic form of free verse, metaphors, a sarcastic tone and drab imagery to reveal a personal struggle between responsibilities, fitting in and his passion for poetry.

Does money control today's society? The Younger family is an African American family in Chicago in the 1950s. The family lives in a small and ratty one window apartment. They are an “average” family who receives the proceeds from a $10,000 life insurance policy from the death of Walter Lee Sr. Everyone in the family has their own idea of what they want to do with the money, if it was up to one of them. The author's story setting is in the apartment surrounded by various conflicts, conversations and actions of the characters. The story line is only a couple of days, but in that time the author is able to show how poverty can have a negative effect on the Younger family.

Reading “The Money” by Junot Diaz gave me the impression that Diaz was raised in a strict but disciplined household. There are many parallels between my life and Junot Diaz’s life. We both came from low-income families struggling for that pesky paycheck. When we did receive that paycheck, most of it ended up going back to our homelands to support the family we had left behind and or pay off the houses we owned or rented there. We both lived in the rough parts of our neighborhoods where the recently moved in immigrants were victim to robberies and cons. Coincidentally, I experienced a very similar situation that Junot Diaz described in his story.

Going line by line of the poem MONEY by Dana Gioia. The first stanza, 3 lines are all syllabi for money, all different names that people usually call money. The next stanza are things that you do with money, spending it. You are either spending it or “watching it burn a hole in your pocket, so you are either spending it or itching to spend it. Stanza 3 again is using different names for money. “greenback” is another name for a dollar bill. “double eagles” is another name for a gold coin that is worth twenty dollars and so on.

Sarah made it clear in the story that Sylvie and her grandmother needed the ten dollars. Sylvie the main character wanted to make the young man happy also. Sylvie dreamed about what her grandmother and she would do with the ten dollars. Sylvie awakens one morning with the idea she would find the White Heron. Once she found the White Heron she realized the bird’s life is more important than the ten dollars. I believe the author Sarah Jewett, wanted everyone to realize sometimes the wants and needs of someone else’s outweighs your own.

One of the stories that really stood out to me is the one where Rosalinda Miran-Ramirez woke up with her shirt soaked in blood and the insurance company changed their mind and decided that it was not an emergency. This is unbelievable! Blood are not meant to come out of nipples on a regular basis. It is abnormal. Greed is completely visible here. I do not understand how insurance company have so much power over people’s health. How can they sit behind a desk and decide what is an emergency and need to be paid for and which is not. It bothers me that the insurance company’s reputation/name is more important than Rosalinda’s health because the instance her story was on the news the company decided to pay. All of that could have been avoid if

“Money provides the best motivation for success”. This quote was said by Russell Baker (Author of No Gumption)and many might agree to this, but many people don’t agree to this. MONEY IS NOT THE BEST MOTIVATION FOR SUCCESS!!! There are many reason why and, the book (written by the person who SAID this quote)even shows this to be true. To catch you up “No Gumption” is about a boy who is living through the great depression and his mom is upset that he isn’t pulling much work around so she meets with a person who sells newspapers and he gives him a job at selling papers.

Many people in the world are motivated by money. Whether in the form of treasure or cash, people will come looking for it. The mystery of a money pit off the shores of Nova Scotia, Canada has attracted treasure hunters for hundreds of years. Scientists have been trying to discover not only what lies at the bottom, but also how the treasure got to Oak Island. Although there is much disagreement about who left the treasure behind on Oak Island, the most logical explanation is that the British created the money pit in the mid 16th century for safe keeping of their newly acclaimed treasure.

After reading Nichols and McChesney’s book, Dollarocracy, I am able to analyze their work and comment about the ideas expressed within the text. I found this book informative but also very boring to read. The book is very informative because they encompass the ideas surrounding the media, the rich, journalism, and politics to a high extent. For example, the writers spent the entire third chapter, 30 pages, reviewing the history of three Supreme Court justices as they ruled on crucial case revolving the topic previously listed. While reading the facts and details listened within the chapters, one can also very clearly understand the argument that the writers are trying to convey to the reader. One example would include the writers’

Parents always deal with the bills, and how to feed the family. Yet how can you do that with no money? Within the novel Miracle's boys by Jacqueline Woodson, their family had a lot of issues dealing with money. Some issues were dealt with severely but some were brushed off. Occasionally, the family loathes having not enough money, it makes them do things they don't want to.

The overall message for Francisco’s speech from Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand is that money is actually good, but the people who use it can be bad. To begin with, Francisco points out that money is simply a way to exchange goods and services. He states, “Money is a tool of exchange, which can’t exist unless there are goods produced and men able to produce them.” He explains how money can’t do anything else other than being used to exchange for goods and services. Another example of money being good is when he says the money will never be the cause of your own problems.

Her father tried persuading her into taking the money by explaining to her that her and her mother would be fine for a few days without the money. “‘Your mother would never know the difference. Unless there’s an earthquake or the Martians invade. I think we can gamble neither of those things will happen before Friday.’” (Page 4) No one knows when an emergency is going to happen, that is why it is an emergency, because otherwise, people could prepare for what was coming and possibly even stop it from ever happening. The most someone can prepare for everything is to have a way to provide for themselves when it

Throughout our lives, we have moments that may impact us negatively and/or positively. In the short story “the money” by Junot Diaz we see his mother saving money to send to her parents in the Dominican Republic but his family is already in a struggle to survive. Then there was a turning point for the whole family, they were robbed. Diaz’s mother was enraged by the event “she cursed the neighborhood, she cursed the country, she cursed [his] father, and of course, she cursed [the] kids,” assuming that one of Diaz’s friends or his siblings’ friends had something to do with it (Diaz 3). Diaz suspected one of his friends and he was right. So, he then took it into his own hands and went to steal the money back. Once Diaz retrieved the money, he

In Money: A Suicide Note Martin Amis describes the life of John Self, an extremely successful filmmaker of TV adverts who takes part in the materialist game characterising the society of the 1980s. The protagonist is addicted to the 20th century, where he leads a careless life based on a daily abundance of drugs, alcohol, promiscuous sex, handjobs and the porn industry. However, this addiction leaves its marks on the body and character of John Self. His physical as well as social health slowly deteriorate while Self is unable (and unwilling) to get off his never-ending trip. For him life seems to be mainly a holiday, and a very expensive one indeed. Only far too late does he realise the dark sides of a lifestyle depending fully on money,

There is no sympathy among the “black” women, however, and Antoinette is correct in stating: “The black people did not hate us quite so much when we were poor. We were white but we had not escaped and soon we would be dead for we had no money left. What was there to hate?” (29) Annette, too, is frightened of the family’s new wealth. Poverty is something to be laughed at, but wealth is enviable. She knows that the “black” people “can be dangerous and cruel for reasons [Mr Mason] wouldn’t understand”(28). Indeed, Tia’s eyes grow large when she sees Antoinette’s pennies and abandons all disguises of friendship to steal them through cunning. Christophine also cunningly gets the girls from the bayside to help with chores without paying them. Every penny matters in the West Indies and the “black” women are willing to sacrifice trust and friendship for monetary gain. When Antoinette speaks of England, one of Christophine’s main concerns is the theft of money there: “You have money in your pocket, you look again and bam! No money. Why you want to go to this cold thief place?”(92-93). Antoinette, like her mother Annette, is not concerned with money. She is more concerned about happiness apart from material goods: “But how can [Christophine] know the best thing for me to do, this ignorant, obstinate old negro woman, who is not certain if there is such a place