Reflection Paper on Under the Same Moon
The movie, Under the Same Moon (La Misma Luna), was a story about a hispanic mother named Rosario and her son named Carlitos. Rosario and Carlitos have been separated since he was five years old. Rosario left Mexico four years ago to look for a better life in Los Angeles. Rosario made the difficult decision to leave her son with her mother while she illegally immigrated to the United States to work, sent money to her mother for Carlitos, and called her son every Sunday at 10:00 A.M. on the payphone every week. Life as an illegal immigrant was hard. Money was very difficult to come by with Rosario's background, so she had to work two different jobs just so that she could put a little bit money aside. She sent money back home to keep her son fed, clothed and educated. At the workplace, she was always discriminated and treated as
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Life for a child as an illegal immigrant was especially hard. The labor was hard work for a nine year old. He had never seen his hand so black and dirty before in his life, and the pay was very little. Immigration police came, but luckily Carlitos escaped with another worker named Enrique. The two struggled to find employment just to pay for bus fares. After meeting his father for the first time, he found out his father would not contribute torwards Carlitos's mission of reuniting with his mother. Carlitos fleeted to the city his mom was located at with Enrique. On the journey to every payphone in Los Angelos, Carlitos was spotted by the police. But because Enrique distracted the police and got caught, Carlitos got away. He wounded up in place that described everything his mother once shared with him, the exact location his mother would go to call Carlitos every Sunday. Carlitos and Rosario's eyes finally met. They cautiously wait quietly on opposite sides of the street and remain silent. They have finally
Rodriguez begins to become more involved in his classroom by his new grip on the English language. He shares fewer and fewer words with his mother and father. His tone now transforms into guilt. As Rodriguez's public language becomes more fluent, he forgets how to speak Spanish. "I would have been happier about my public success had I not recalled, sometimes, what it had been like earlier, when my family conveyed its intimacy through a set of conveniently private sound.? He begins to break out of the cocoon as a slow or disadvantaged child and blooms into a regular kid in his white society that only uses English. He feels a great sense of betrayal of his Mexican past. His connection that held him so close to his family is destabilized.
Carlos works with a coyote , but she refuse to help Carlos cross the border. Then Carlos meets with two American siblings who are looking for extra money by crossing infants and children to the United States. The sibling agree to smuggle Carlos into the United States , but Carlos did not realized that it could of have end his life. The siblings way of smuggling individuals was by putting them inside the seats with no hole to breath from and hope for the best. Then issues occur during the process, and Carlos ends up in the hands of "Guerros"yet he is saved by a woman who helps immigrates by giving them a house and foods.
After watching the films, I noticed a few similarities between the films. One example from the films is between “el Norte” and “Under the same moon”, both films show the struggle of immigrants go through when wanting a better life for themselves or their families. During the Norte film, the producers explained how an immigrant tries to cross the borders themselves, yet once they fail, they are left with the options of hiring a coyote to help them get across. I also saw that connections in the film “Under the same Moon”. In that film, the producers wanted to show their viewers that any age group would have the difficulty of going across the border. It also shows how children are much easier to be crossed , since they are much smaller , but also
For Enrique his pre-birth and childhood had incorporated many obstacles that made him choose the path he was going to take. Before Enrique was even born he had no idea what his struggles were going to be. The neighborhood and even his family were a figment of Enrique’s imagination. Enrique was born into a broken family that had many needs his parents were not able to provide. Enrique’s family was not high in economic status and resorted to living in Tegucigalpa,
This is an incredible story about a young Mexican boy who went through so much to achieve something he never thought he would. The tragedy of his infant sister’s death and an economic crisis in 1970s made him take this life changing chance – to cross the border to the United States. His cousin used to tell him that he would spend all his life working in the fields, Quinones-Hinojosa was ready to accept his fate, he did not know English language, did not have working permit, what else could he expect? So he started working in the fields, picking fruits and vegetables, pulling weeds until his hands were bleeding, hands that perform brain surgeries today. He discovered that being a poor immigrant without an education in a foreign country will make people treat you differently. At this point in his life, he decided to prove to
When they finally reach the place where the truck was sold to it is night and for the first time we see Carlos willing to do something that is not right. He determines that he is going to steal the truck back. He is successful, but puts himself and his son at risk of death. When they get away their joy is short lived though. Carlos is pulled over and does not have a drivers license. He is sent to ICE for deportation. He is asked if he wants to appeal it but is warned that only 3% of people who apply are awarded the right back into the country. He determines it would be better if he just went back to Mexico. This means he is without his son. He gets a calling card and leaves a message to see Luis before and they get to spend a few minutes together, but in the end Carlos is sent into the desert to find his way back to Mexico and Luis is left alone.
Over the course of the book What the Moon Saw by Laura Resau, Clara transforms as a result of finding herself and her true calling, healing. Towards the beginning of the book, when Clara feels like a “fuzzy moon, just a faint light through the clouds” and questions if she is more than just a little plastic doll after seeing a little doll resembling her in a model of her neighborhood (3). After hearing Abuelita’s story she wonders if her soul is what differentiates her from the plastic doll and why in the past year, she hadn't felt like herself. Later, she explored the forest and “pictured (her) life as a big forest. Up until a couple of days ago, (she’d) only lived in one little clump of trees.
On June of 2012, President Obama’s announced that his administration would stop deporting undocumented youth who were brought to the United States of America illegally by their parents. This was a huge win for the DREAM act which allowed undocumented youths to pursue higher education or join the workforce with. Francisco Jimenez or Panchito, as he is called in the story, just like the DREAMers, was brought to the US by his parents when we was about eight years old. Unfortunately, by the time he was fifteen years of age, he was deported back to Mexico. Between the years of coming to the US and being deported back, Franciso had assimilated to the American culture in many ways i.e being so fluent in English that he could memorize the Declaration Of Independence. From picking cotton and strawberries to moving from state to state looking for jobs, the Jimenez family had seen it all. They came to America looking to achieve their American Dream but they were not so successful. Panchito, even though was not able to become full American, I believe that he did feel American for most of the part in the book.
Growing up as the child may seem like easy to have a normal childhood, able to go school in peace having a permanent home to be comfortable, parents are stable with their job in one place. However, this is just a dream a child wants to come from a family of migrant worker. In the story “ The Circuit” illustrated Francisco Jimenez is about a boy name Pachito and his family has been moving place to place due to his parents are migrant worker there no place to settle down much.His family has stayed in small shack move again for the next job. Pachito see the manual labor his parents go through just to provide the family. Since his parents only speak Spanish do not have the time learning English during their job, it is best for their children goes to school learn English and have an education. First day of school Pachito timid all of classmate speaking fluently in English, he felt like an
I enjoyed the movie; it gave me another perspective on what happens to people who don’t obtain documented papers and will do whatever it takes to persevere just to survive. Before watching this movie, I was not as clueless as I imagined. I just never given it a second thought until I would see something about families, on the local news people getting separated or people dying because of inhuman situations. Under the Same Moon open my eyes about the love a mother has for her child, under critical situations, when the mother must leave her child, to find a better life for the child.
There are many people who believed that we did land on the moon, but then there are many others who do not believe we landed on the moon. There are many points that they try to prove to say that we did not land on the moon such as the flag movement, no stars, and that the shadows were messed up. There are many ways to prove them wrong with the proof they have that we landed on the moon.
This is an exceptional story. When the Moon Was Ours follows an inseparable friends Miel and Sam. They live in a town where everything is cloaked with mystery and secrecy. There's spectacular trans representation, wide spectrum of gender identity, cultural threads, lyricism, and romance. If you love luminous writing, ambiguous plots accompanied by breathtaking characters, you need to read it immediately. It would put stars and wonder in your eyes. It is rich, imaginative. It’s the cult classic, magical realism you surely don’t want to miss.
No one knows how the moon was formed, but there are many theories that people believe. One of these theories is that the Earth used to have two moons that struck one another and formed the moon that we know today. Another theory is that planet Earth and a planet named Theia collided with one another, and the debris from the impact is what we call the moon. The theory that proves the most plausible is the one that claims that the Earth and planet Theia collided. There is some evidence that is able to prove this claim.
In the poem ‘Moon’, Kathleen Jamie explores themes of abandonment, loneliness and disconnection. She does this by utilizing a clearly dysfunctional relationship between a mother and child. The child replaces the either mentally or physically absent mother with the presence of the moon. To explore the emotional distance between child and mother, the author uses dark and light imagery to empathize the child’s loneliness and to evoke the scene of a parent visiting they child late at night. Personification of inanimate objects illustrates the detrimental effects the unavailable mother has on the child’s mental wellbeing. The poem ends with dialogue from the protagonist, the child, pointing out that the moon is not her mother, as if to be
“A dónde vas?” My mother exclaimed. My father had gotten up during supper and she was worried about his goings late at night. My father had come home early that day which was odd. He always worked long, hard hours, going up to the mountains, being watched by Don Calderon and other soldiers waiting to strike at him and other workers for any reason. A look in her face told me she already knew where he was off to. He walked out silently only saying that he had business to take care of. I rushed out behind him.