Confetti Girl And Tortilla Sun Essay

The relationships between a child and his/her parents and guardians strongly influence their life and what he or she says and does. If the parents are feeling stressed, most likely the child will feel the same. In the short excerpts from the novels Confetti Girl and Tortilla Sun by authors Diana Lopez and Jennifer Cervantes, they used multiple real life problems to develop the conflict and tension. Within the excerpts, the thoughts, feelings, and actions throughout the unspoken viewpoints are developed by the parent and child’s point of views. To begin, the tension is developed through the thoughts of parents and teens. In paragraph 22 of Confetti Girl she thinks, “I sigh, bored, but he doesn't get the hint. He just waits for my answer. “yes,” I finally say.” Though her name is unspoken she plays a major role

For example, in Confetti Girl, she feels hopeless, “But I don’t. As soon as he leaves, I put the book on my night stand and use it as a coaster. The condensation from my soda makes a big wet circle on the cover.” This was demonstrated in paragraph 34. At the same time, she obviously doesn’t care about reading the homework she was assigned. She is being and careless. Her dad tried so hard to make school the most important part in her life, she is getting bored and annoyed. So when she told her father she forgot her book at school, he jumped right on it and searched for it everywhere, and he eventually found it. When he gave it to her, she was careless and put her drink on it. For example, in Tortilla Sun in paragraph 8 Izzy explains, “I stormed off and threw myself onto my bed .” The readers can tell she’s upset and frustrated. At the same time, she feels the same. Like there's nothing she can do. Izzy cannot believe what she is being told. She has to go live her grandma and there is nothing she can do about it. “Mom wouldn’t leave me. We’d go together.