The past of a foreign country. They do things differently there. This is what Hernestos grandpa was thinking on the way to America, Jasper Rodriguez has moved to America to play basketball in the NBA. Jasper is a phenomenal basketball player, he can cross anyone up. Jasper is on the play to America from Spain, he’s going to play for the Boise Trail Blazers who are just amazing this year. Jasper meets Hernestos grandma in America during a game, he ran into her right after his game and they went to coffee and they just clicked. Back to the story, Jasper is on the plane trying to figure out what to think of America because he has never been to or seen America. As soon as he lands he realizes it is nothin like he thought it would be, People here …show more content…
Hernesto goes back in time to 2016 to stop calvin from being mad at Jasper because Hernesto understands that the reason they are bankrupt is because of Calvin. So Hernesto get’s on the team as well because his grandpa would play with him when he was younger. Hernesto is just as good as Jasper and the scout’s realize this, so they decide to pick him up for the team as well. Hernesto has great defence too, Hernesto could guard his grandpa amazingly. While Hernesto goes to meet everyone he learns why exactly why Calvin is mad and ends up calming him down. Calvin is mad because he is just as good as Jasper and is wondering why he can’t just play on the court with Jasper and Hernesto to make the team better. The coaches didn’t think the Calvin should even be on the team because he’s really bad at basketball, but the reason he’s on the team is because his dad is the owner of the team and so he always get’s lot’s of playing time. So Calvin take’s lot’s of his anger out on Jasper and Jasper has been trying to be his friend, He’s been unbelievably nice to him but Calvin doesn’t notice it he’s just looking at the bad side of …show more content…
Hernesto is trying to stop clavin from stealing from his grandpa, Hernesto has tried everything he tried getting him to go to a bar with them and he’s tried just getting them to play basketball together, nothing will work. Hernesto realized that he had to start taking extra caution because it was getting around the time where Calvin conned him out of his money, when it came to that night Hernesto ended up getting calvin in a dark alley and told him Dont you ever mess with Jasper”. Calvin’s face got really red and told him “ don’t you ever talk to me about this, this is between me and him”. Calvin got this look in his eye like Hernesto has never seen in anyone, Calvin lurched at Hernesto, Hernesto had ducked and before Calvin could stop himself he ran right into the side of the bar and cracked his head open. Hernesto called the police and told them everything that had happened and got away scott free. In the end Jasper kept all of his money and Hernesto is wealthy while Calvin is mentally disabled
It is often said that the setting of the story can change the character’s mentality and personality. In the classic vignette, A Summer Life, Gary Soto addresses his childhood to adulthood in Fresno in the course of a short vivid chapters. Born on April 12, 1952, a year before the Korean War ended, Gary experiences his life in Fresno of what he describes “what I knew best was at ground level,” and learns what is going on around the neighborhood with his religious background behind him. Later, when he realizes his father passes away, he undergoes hardships which cause his family to be miserable. Growing up in the heart of Fresno, Gary Soto, the author, explains his journey as a young man to adolescence through his use of figurative language and other adventures. The settings of this book revise Gary’s action and feelings around his surroundings.
Christopher Johnson McCandless, the main character in the book “Into the Wild,” had made a lot of friends even though he did not like people. Wayne Westerberg was one of Chris’s friends who he met in a bar. Chris also befriended a girl named Jan Burre. Another person who befriended Chris was a guy named Ronald Franz,
The play “A Raisin in the Sun” by Lorraine Hansberry has many interesting characters. In my opinion, the most fascinating character is Ruth because of her many emotions and captivating personality. She goes through extreme emotions in the play such as happiness, sadness, anger, stress, and confusion. Ruth is very independent, firm, kind, witty, and loving.
Calvin and his son have two sons their oldest Buck is extremely popular at school and their youngest Conrad who looks upon his brother. The family seems financially privileged but becomes dysfunctional when buck dies in a boating accident. Buck and Conrad were boating when Buck died and Conrad cannot stop blaming himself. He is so emotionally distraught that he attempts to kill himself. After being in the hospital for a month he is physically cured but he is still emotionally distraught and cannot stop blaming himself.
The tone of the short story “America and I” changed dramatically over the course of the narrative. The author, Anzia Yezierska, started the story with a hopeful and anxious tone. She was so enthusiastic about arriving in America and finding her dream. Yezierska felt her “heart and soul pregnant with the unlived lives of generations clamouring for expression.” Her dream was to be free from the monotonous work for living that she experienced back in her homeland. As a first step, she started to work for an “Americanized” family. She was well welcomed by the family she was working for. They provided the shelter Yezierska need. She has her own bed and provided her with three meals a day, but after a month of working, she didn’t receive the wage she was so
America is a beautiful seventeen year old girl from Tepoztlan in Mexico who crossed the border with her brother-in-law to the US to make a better living, things did not go according to plan and this led to some actions and reactions that summed up bringing out her inner character. The character America has an interesting perspective on her decision making process which one can attribute to many factors of her culture, origin and I believe her age.
In the story, the mother’s belief in this sentiment gave her hope for her daughter to become a prodigy. Therefore, the weight of the dream is left on the first-generation. The belief of endless possibilities is set upon first-generation Americans and Americans alike. From the beginning of the story, the daughter states that “America was where all my mother’s hopes lay” (491). The mother has the be...
Have you ever loved a place as a child, but as you got older you realized how sugar coated it really was? Well, that is how Jacqueline Woodson felt about her mother’s hometown and where she went every summer for vacation. The story, When A Southern Town Broke A Heart, starts off with the author feeling as if Greenville is her home. But one year when she has 9 she saw it as the racist place it really is. This causes her to feel betrayed, but also as if she isn't the naive little girl she once was. By observing this change, you can conclude that the theme she is trying to convey is that as you get older, you also get wiser.
I walked around unsteadily all day like a lost baby, far away from its pack. Surrounded by unfamiliar territory and uncomfortable weather, I tried to search for any signs of similarities with my previous country. I roamed around from place to place and moved along with the day, wanting to just get away and go back home. This was my first day in the United States of America.
While many people around the world look to America and see a better life waiting for them and the American Dream waiting to be lived, often times this dream never comes to fruition, even if they do reach America. Such is the case in the short story Grandma’s Tales, by Andrew Lam in which a recently deceased Vietnamese grandmother becomes reborn as a much younger and improved version of herself ready to live life to the fullest. This rebirth symbolizes the life that she wishes she lived, however due to constant conflict and famine in Vietnam, and her deteriorating health in America, was never able to do so. Instead of mourning this fact, in her final days the grandmother chooses to live her life through her granddaughters,
As a prosecuting attorney, Emeline Newsom failed to put Jerry Pela, a criminal, behind bars. Changing her name and moving from Dallas to Fate, Georgia, she’s ready to put her failure behind her and start a new life. She gets a job taking care of an elderly woman called Miss Charlotte, a woman she fears is being cheated out of her life savings.
In Guy De Maupassant’s Old Milon, the protagonist, Old Milon, is a clever and intelligent Old Man, who murders Prussian soldiers for revenge. Using his cleverness Old Milon develops an insidious plan to achieve revenge on the Prussian soldiers, who have killed his son and father, taken animals and food from him, and who are quartered on his farm. Old Milon knew that in order to not be suspected he must be an amicable host to the Prussians, and he accomplished this as the Prussians thought he was, “obliging and even attentive to [them]” (Maupassant p.2). Gaining their trust was what allowed Old Milon to be able to go off his land, which would be where he would kill after the first murder, and it was what kept the Prussians from thinking that he had been the murderer. Knowing he would need to go off his land to
The novel illustrates several themes but, the most important one relates to the exploitation of the American dream. “... “ Cant repeat the past?” he
Someone who can take the risk to prove himself or lose everything trying feel the need to prove themselves to people not just for the fun of it. A rebel takes the risk of losing everything he/or she has ever known. In into the wild a rebel means to abandon everything and everyone you’ve ever known and just completely shut everyone out. Like Chris shut everyone out of his life. Chris McCandless said “ “I don’t want to know what time it is. I don’t want to know what day it is or where I am. None of that matters.” (Krakauer 7). He wanted to push his life to the limits and he thought his family was holding him back. Chris wanted to live his life to the fullest and see new things everyday instead of just seeing the same thing over and over. But
Noah is the one of the main characters of The Notebook. He is the hero of this novel. Noah represents true love and true loyalty. In a way, The Notebook is similar to every modern day romance movie, and Noah represents the “dream man” that all the girls always imagine of having. The characters in movies are used to symbolize ideas, and in this novel, Noah represents true, faithful, committed love. Noah remains loyal to Allie even in the situation where he is unsure whether they will ever meet again or not.