Yellow Raft in Blue Water

She doen't think she is not a typical everyday girl she is a girl who has to move alot and everytime she moves there would always be another one who came with them so totally there were six in her family, her mom,dad,carlos,kiki,her sister nenny and herself. The house on the mango street is theirs because they don't have to pay rent or anything and everything is theirs except for the garage her dad is trying to get. Her parent lwys dreamed of having their own house where piped were running and nothing was broken and there would be three bathroom with a big yard. But the house on mango street looked small and tight. She didn't expect that but she didn't have a choice. she hopes she has the house that her parents dreamed to live

Rayona is an intelligent girl, but because she moves around so much she never really gets to establish that in schools. With Christine, school played a significant part in her life growing up because of the social aspects of it. Popularity is essential to her because her brother, Lee, is popular and she wanted to be like him. Night Flying Woman was written by Ignatia Broker. The book is about her great-great-grandmother's life.

The mother begins to rebel against tradition by taking an active role in educating and freeing herself. Through her radio, telephone and trips out with her sons she develops her own opinions about the world, the war, and the domination and seclusion of woman. She loses her innocence as a result to her new knowledge and experience.

In the novel A Yellow Raft in Blue Water by Michael Dorris shows the three different perspectives of Rayona, Christine, and Aunt Ida with the struggle of feeling out of place and trying to belong. Rayona, Christine’s daughter, is a fifteen-year old mixed with Native and African American who is intelligent, self-reserved, and very independent but is quickly judged with her appearance. Christine had always wanted the attention from people that she never received from her mother, Aunt Ida. She tries to look for love in the wrong places which makes her feel empty later in life. Aunt Ida sacrificed her childhood to keep the family’s secret by pretending to be Christine’s mother. At her young age it was uncommon for the girls to have a child so people

In the book, A Yellow Raft in Blue Water, written by Michael Dorris, the story is told by three different narrators at three different points in time. Rayona, a half-black, half-Native American teen, Christine, the mother of Rayona, and Aunt Ida, who poses as Christine’s mom but actually in reality, is Christine’s half-sister. Throughout the book, there are many references towards the book’s themes and are examined and highlighted throughout the book. Family and finding your true identity are the main themes in this book because throughout the book, Rayona’s past remains a mystery to her all because of her mother and grand-mother and she is willingly desperate to find a family or other people that will welcome her and make her feel normal.

Beginning with the complexities of Ida’s family–including her nuclear family with the addition of her aunt Clara–and her social life and later relationships, the eldest-most narrator recalled her perspective of the significant events of the early-to-mid chapter of her lifetime and the outcomes of her relationships within. Almost directly after being introduced to Ida’s point of view, it is revealed that her aunt and best friend, Clara had, through the duration of her sister’s–Ida’s mother–illness, been impregnated with the child of her brother-in-law–Ida’s father. The impending child was to be Rayona’s mother, Christine. Subsequent to the news of

During the weeks Molly spends with Vivian, she learns a lot from Vivian. Most important, she realizes that Vivian also had a difficult childhood but was able to overcome her bad experiences and lead a happy life. Molly’s realization reflects the theme of the book: learning about the experiences

   As the subject of the first section of Doris' novel, A Yellow Raft In Blue Water, Rayona faces many problems that are unique to someone her age. Ray's mixed race heritage makes her a target of discrimination on the reservation. Problems in her family life (or lack thereof), give Rayona a reversed role in which she is the mother taking care of Christine. In dealing with these issues, Rayona learns a lot about herself and others.

The girl’s inner characterization resembles a coming of age character. She develops because of the action and her traits as a child are presented in contrast with her traits as a teenager. This contrast is emphasized using the third-person narrator at the beginning of

In both the Dominican Republic and America, the girl’s sexuality is oppressed by men who trick them into thinking they care. While on the Island, Sofia meets a guy who she loves more than anything. When the other sisters arrive, they realize that he is controlling her every action and thought. He tells her what to do and will not let her think for herself. Carla was exposed to a perverted man in a green car. This causes her to think that sexuality is a threat to society and a dangerous thing overall. She can’t figure out who she is because this man stripped her of her identity.

No one really understood her or could see what she really wanted. This story is about a girl wanting what everyone wants to fit in, but doesn’t know how to truly live.

The author, Marjane Satrapi, shows the details and complexities of the conflict the protagonist faced during her journey of growing up and evolving. Over all in the story the protagonist does a good job pointing out that it is a struggle before finding one’s true

To start off, Jess’s dreams are more important than here culture, because they are who she is as a person. Jess does not simply want to be the traditional Indian girl that her parents want her to be, she wants more. Instead, Jess makes a bold decision that traditional Indian girls wouldn’t do, she chose to

In her short story "Two Kinds," Amy Tan utilizes the daughter's point of view to share a mother's attempts to control her daughter's hopes and dreams, providing a further understanding of how their relationship sours. The daughter has grown into a young woman and is telling the story of her coming of age in a family that had emigrated from China. In particular, she tells that her mother's attempted parental guidance was dominated by foolish hopes and dreams. This double perspective allows both the naivety of a young girl trying to identify herself and the hindsight and judgment of a mature woman.

Furthermore, Amy Tan writes a wonderful short story about the complicated relationship between mothers and daughters, yet one can be enriching. The theme of “Two