Although the stories are fiction, many of the stories we read in short fiction, see like stories that we hear that happen to real people. The authors of the short stories we have read use identify to create relatable characters for the reader. This story is talking about a girl who dont know English very well. She liveś in america ,and she is in high school . She is 13 years old. Another story is about a preacher and a boy. The have an argument in the church about questioning. The last story is talking about a girl who eats food everyday, every minute, every hours. Her friend are skinny. She is the only one who is fat because she eats food a lot and everyday. Her friends wants her to be skinny but she won’t listen. And she won stop eating. …show more content…
Louise, carrie, and Richard. Louise most defining characteristic seems to be her habit of eating food secretly. She deems it a ritual of deceit and pleasure, yet at the same times she realize it was a vice that was insular and destructive. Louise self-perception demonstrates that by the time she is in high school, she identifies herself by what she eats and how much she weighs at times tries to forge on identity for herself that is not based on her weight. She acknowledge she likes other parts of her body. It's hard to lose weight. But her friend loves her who she is. And her dad loveś her who she is, expects her mother. Her mother wants her to be skinny, but she won't listen to her mother. She won't listen to her husband because he made her feel bad about her weight. ¨” every day Richard Quarreled, and because his raga went to father her weight and shape, she felt excluded. From it,and she remained calm within layers of flesh and spirit and watching his frustration, his impotence. He truly believe they were arguing about her weight. “ he didn't say! Honey love who you are even through if you are fat he didn't say in nice …show more content…
And l don't understand what the teachers was saying. So l didn't do anything. And l was 13 years old, and i also know english because i had to work hard to learn english because english is not my first language, so like i say it was hard to learn english. The best story is when i was Puerto Rican by Esmeralda Santiago. The story is the best because i relate this story, Esmeralda is most like me, like immigrant, and she had to learn English like me. She remembers me when i come to america and how i come to high school. She remembers me when i didn't know much English when i could speak english at all. I got nervous when i have to speak it front of people. I like Esmeralda because we both rated. We both immigrant. We are both to learn English and how to pronounce it. “ Esmeralda Santiago moved to brooklyn from puerto Rican with her mother and several of her brother and sisters when she was 13 leaving behind her father and live in the country. After being assigned to a class for kids with learning disabilities because she cannot speak english well” Esmeralda movies a lot, and when her family movies and she changes school, she is given the chance to write her own ticker. I like Esmeralda because we are both come to america. And we are both were 13 years old when l and Esmeralda come to U.S “ she was 13 leaving
“Se Habla Español,” is written by a Latin author, Tanya Barrientos; and Amy Tan, a Chinese author, wrote “Mother Tongue”. In both literate narratives the authors write about their experiences with language and how it impacted their lives. In This essay we will be discussing the similarities as well as the differences in the stories and the authors of “Se Habla Español” and “Mother Tongue”. We will discuss how both authors use a play on words in their titles, how language has impacted their lives, how struggling with language has made them feel emotionally, and how both authors dealt with these issues.
The excerpt from “First muse” by Julia Alvarez is a story about her Dominican cultural background. Alvarez has been looked different based on her ability to speak English. Due to Alvarez not have a “Dominican education and her ability to speak English” bullied and teased. As a child Alvarez had told her mom that she does not want to just be the stay home wife who just cooks and cleans like every other wife she wants she does to be different, she wants to be more than just a stay home wife when she get older. It’s ok to know more than one language, but at the same time to should always stay truth to your cultural background/inherent. Just because Alvarez knows English does not make her a different Dominican girl because she knows Spanish too.
Richard Rodriguez' narrative, “Aria: Memoir of a Bilingual Childhood” and Carmen Tafolla's poem, “In Memory of Richi” have similar themes. In Rodriguez' narrative, he talks about his experience attending an American school. Similarly, Tafolla recites a story about a boy in an American school setting. Each story implies that students of another culture are subject to lose their cultural ties in order to fit in with the American society.
In the story, seventh grade, by Gary Soto tells the story of how one kid named Victor tries to win over the love from a girl named Teresa. He does multiple things to get her but the one that works the best was him faking knowing French. Even though Victor doesn’t know French she still believes him. So this is what starts this whole thing in seventh grade by Gary Soto. So here is Victor’s story.
Every person thinks about a certain question at least once in the lifetime. The question that is most thought about is, ¨Who am I?¨ Many people would respond with their name, their parents, or where they live. Others use their reputation, their occupation, and their looks. At last, a few others identify themselves by their significant actions they have done. In some stories, characters try to find out who they really are. In the short stories ¨Fish Cheeks¨ by Amy Tan, ¨Two Kinds¨ by Amy Tan, and ¨Papa´s Parrot¨ by Cynthia Rylant,the characters learn about their identities through significant moments.
In the story “Mother Tongue,” by Amy Tan, Mrs. Tan talks about (in the book) her life and how she grew up with different Englishes was very hard and how it has affected her today. The setting of the book goes from being at lecture to the past of Amy Tan and her mother along with the different Englishes she had to come accustomed to. In “Mother Tongue” by Amy Tan, the author’s attitude towards the “different Englishes” she grew up with is fascinated. Amy Tan conveys this attitude through wanting to learn all different kinds of Englishes, her use of Englishes in her novel, and the acceptance she developed of her mother’s broken English.
Throughout a person’s lifetime there are a few defining moments that determine the kind of person they become. In Margaret Atwood’s Weight marriage, careers, and children play significant roles in the lives of Molly and her friend the narrator. The narrator’s flashbacks provide insight into the highs and lows of her own life along with Molly’s. Weight is an enjoyable short story because the struggles and triumphs of the characters may resonate with the reader’s own life. Atwood’s Weight is an effective and thought provoking short story. A complex plot, point of view, setting, theme, and characterization deliver mechanisms to stimulate thoughts and feelings in the reader.
The two women share stories and through Ninny’s tales of her sister-in-law and “companion”, Evelyn gains the strength and confidence she needs to lose weight, stand up to her husband and take back the life she thought was so hopeless.
The writings of Amy Tan and Richard Rodriguez’s depicts a bilingual story based on two differing culture. On Mother Tongue, “Tan explores the effect of her mother’s “broken” English on her life and writing” (506). On the other hand, Richard Rodriguez “recounts the origin of his complex views of bilingual education through Public and Private Language” (512). From a child’s eyes, Tan and Rodriguez describe each joys and pain growing up in a non-English speaking family. Hence, may be viewed that cultural differences plays a major role on how one handles adversities.
“Se habla Espanol” wrote by Tanya Maria Barrientos. She is growing up in Texas, but she was born in Guatemala. That causes she cannot speak Spanish like Latina. In the article, she talked about what the feeling as a Lantana without the ability to speak Spanish so well. Her parents give her a few of knowledge about speaking Spanish. Because, she grew up in a special era, which Mexican Americans were considered dangerous radical. Nowadays, this theory is politically incorrect. The author wants to find some people that like her, does not fit in Spanish culture and help them, giving them a big mental supporting. I’m from China, growing and living in different places, which have different language and culture habit.
Her father works out of town and does not seem to be involved in his daughters lives as much. Her older sister, who works at the school, is nothing but plain Jane. Connie’s mother, who did nothing nag at her, to Connie, her mother’s words were nothing but jealousy from the beauty she had once had. The only thing Connie seems to enjoy is going out with her best friend to the mall, at times even sneaking into a drive-in restaurant across the road. Connie has two sides to herself, a version her family sees and a version everyone else sees.
In addition, both essays reflect how the language they spoke intertwines with their identity and how it sometimes has an impact on the way they interact with society. The effect of the language on their identity is demonstrated through what the authors may call their “different languages.” Although Tan uses more of a personal narrative style than Anzaldua, Anzaldua uses definitions and quotes to demonstrate how her identity was influenced as well. Anzaldua mentions the examples of the different languages by describing “Home tongues”, “Chicano Spanish”, “Chicano Texas Spanish”, “Pachuco” and many others. She uses personal narrative to describe the “Home Tongue” by stating it was the language she spoke with her sisters and brothers.
In the third story of Loves Executioner: “The Fat lady” , Dr.Yalom decides to treat a twenty-seven year old overweight woman named, Betty. Though Dr. Yalom was reluctant to treat Betty at first due to her being obese, Dr. Yalom decides to put aside his counter-transference issues and views treating Betty as a way to improve his skills as a therapist. Not only does Dr.Yalom learn throughout treating Betty that there was more substance to her than he had initially anticipated, but he connects with betty while overcoming his counter-transference issues,helping Betty uncover the pathology of her depression and discovering her identity.
...ents, and my English problem. I didn’t even have control of my own identity at that point. In the bilingual classroom my education depended upon the teachers and the system. I couldn’t express my viewpoints to faculty members like I do now in college. For instance, in college when I need help in a certain class, I can just go and talk to the professor or even to my counselor. Unfortunately, in grammar school, I didn’t know how to talk about the situation. As a result, in college I have been determined to change my study habits and take back control of my identity because I see how a student cannot survive with inefficient study habits. I realize now that, as a child, I was disadvantaged in many ways. Today, I have to be prepared to do extra to make up for a poor educational background by spending more time studying, focusing on school, and controlling my life.
Learning a new language isn’t always easy. It has it’s up and down moments but once I learned that new language I felt accomplished and a lot of new opportunities open for me. My point is that learning English for me wasn’t easy, but once I learned English, I was able to help out my parents more and a bunch of new doors opened for me. You can say by knowing English I had a little more power now at home because they depended a lot on me now but it also felt great just to help them out with their English.