Two simple strangers can share a couple of differences but many similarities. The unexpected can occur at the most inconvenient time when two people meet. In “Geraldo No Last Name”, Sandra Cisneros uses short but precise diction and syntax to compare and contrast Geraldo and Marin in order to reveal the two strangers’ similarities, such as their insignificance, and differences, such as their social class. Two individuals, who barely know each other, can have many personal traits in common. For example, Marin and Geraldo are both “young” people who enjoy going to “dances” even though they know “nothing” about each other. Geraldo is basically a nobody to everybody, and Marin is a nobody to Geraldo. Marin was just someone who went to dances, and Geraldo was just some “wetback”, so that means that they were both insignificant on their own levels. Geraldo “wasn't [Marin's] boyfriend or anything like that”. Geraldo and Marin both shared a casual, short relationship. Neither of them saw it necessary to build a strong, long-lasting, serious …show more content…
For example, an “ashamed brazer” and an “uptown” girl cross paths, only to have their short relationship abruptly destroyed after Geraldo’s unexpected death. Marin was probably in a higher social class than Geraldo and she must have had money, because she could afford to go to all those dances. Their relationship was abruptly terminated, because they were never really destined to be together; Marin was sympathetic, worried, and got stressed, but Geraldo was just someone who just did not care. Cisneros uses diction such as “what did it matter” to show Geraldo’s insignificance to the people around him. Geraldo was unimportant and nothing because he didn't “matter”. On the other hand, Marin was more well-known, because she attended the dances Fontana, Logan, and Embassy. Two simple strangers may lack a connection because of their
Two people with two completely different characteristics have something alike. Both Dally and Johnny are mentally tough because of their parents. Johnny and Dally’s parents both do not care for them and could care less about them. For example, during Dally’s childhood he went to jail, been in a gang, and has been in many fights and his dad still would not care for him even if he won the lottery. Dally also talks about his dad's disgrace towards him in the car with Johnny and Ponyboy, “‘ Shoot, my dad don’t give a hang whether I’m in jail or dead in a car wreck or drunk in a gutter...’”(88). Dally could easily live without his dad and he does for the most part. Dally just hangs around with his friends and stays at their place. Similarly, Johnny's parents use him like a rag doll to blow off steam, “his father always beating him up”(14). The gang knows what happenes in Johnny’s house. Once Ponyboy was witnessing, “Johnny take a whipping with a two-by-four from his old man”(33). Ponyboy talks about how loud and mean Johnny's mom is and,“you can...
In the novel Balzac and the little Chinese seamstress by Dai Sijie, I can relate my relationship with Diego, and Lou and the little seamstress's relationship because we have numerous things in common. We both try and keep our sexual relationship a secret. Both of our relationships are open because Diego and I express our feeling's with people we associate with, we are also open by letting other people see our body language. There relationship is intense whereas my relationship if not. There is an equal dynamic in my relationship, what I mean by saying that is we have similarities and differences.
A difference in a friendship usually will not have a permanent effect on the people involved. Finny is extremely competitive, whereas Gene does not care too much for sports. This is exemplified when Finny creates his own game called blitzball. Gene plays along with the game, but never really becomes interested in the same game that everyone loves. Finny is very inventive and persuasive, however, Gene usually goes with the crowd. Part of Finny’s new blitzball game was that rules were made up as the game progressed. When Gene gets the ball, he neglects to be creative and just imitates something he saw earlier by another kid. Gene wants and loves to study; in contrast, Finny tries to study but usually gives up. When Gene and Finny are at the beach together, Gene keeps saying that he needs to go back to school to study.
When looking at Golding and Marquez's techniques of plot and dialect, one can determine that these methods of writing are used to advocate civility. The authors of both works use their ability to tell stories as a platform for their own beliefs to be heard. These techniques they use, such as plot and dialect, serve as the hidden implications of themselves. The main characters Ralph and Maria transition from an individual in a new and isolated environment to a savage who is a part of this place.
In the story “‘Race’ Politics” written by Luis J. Rodriguez, it writes about how these two 6 and 9 year olds live in a racial world in which they travel across tracks to go from their community to another community to buy some groceries. Things go along nicely until the children exit the store and teens from the other community cause them painful trouble. The purpose for the prompt is to identify connotation, syntax, and imagery.
In the book ”He Forgot To Say Goodbye” by Benjamin Alire Sáenz, the reader gets the chance to know the two boys, Jake Upthegrove and Ramiro Lopez. Jake and Ramiro don’t appear have much in common. Ramiro, or Ram as he is called, lives in the Mexican-American suburbs. His life is surrounded by misery, due to his brother’s drug addiction and stealing. Jake, who is a rich white boy, has problems with his mother’s shallow and materalistic world. Still, they have one thing in common: they are lost boys who have never met their fathers. This fact has left them scarred and obsessed with the men who abandoned them. Eventually, their paths cross eachothers and later they find out the problem they share. The friendship between Jake and Ramiro develops into something that was bigger and their problems and the difference between them, which would also beco...
For example, Cofer recalls walking towards her room at a classy hotel with her friend when a high-status man sang offensive songs about Latinas with his daughter’s support, making “the lyrics… about a girl named María whose exploits all rhymed with her name and gonorrhea” (Cofer 107). Although Cofer was extremely irritated and “really wanted to push the jerk into the swimming pool”, she handled the situation in calmly, warning the man’s daughter to never ask what her father did in the army (Cofer 107). In other words, readers sympathize the author’s frustration towards the man and his daughter that denotes the rage that Latinas face from these harsh stereotypes about being dirty-minded and desiring to have sex often. Nevertheless, since hundreds of men in the army were extremely dirty and raped women during wartime, Cofer’s warning for the daughter indicates how it is unfair and aggravating for Latinas to be associated with these kinds of offensive cultural stereotypes when these beliefs can also be applied to any individual regardless of race and gender. Furthermore, on the day of Cofer’s public poetry reading debut, an elder woman assumed that Cofer was a waitress in a Miami restaurant and ordered coffee from her, believing that her poems were menus. Cofer’s
Geraldo No Last Name is a story about a Mexican boy Marin met at a dance is killed in a hit-and-run accident. Because Marin is the last person he is seen with, Marin has to go to the hospital and speak with police to assist them in identifying the victim. However, since Geraldo’s pockets are empty and Marin only met him once, she can only provide only minimal information about him. The title says“Geraldo No Last Name.” Does Geraldo really not have a last name? Let’s see who is Geraldo. Geraldo is an attractive young man who works in a restaurant. Also, according to narrator, he is a brazer who doesn’t speak English, a wetback. It is such a person that died in the hospital without any good treatment. There’s no any surgeons come but only an intern works alone.
Junot Diaz’s story “How to Date a Brown girl, Black girl, White girl, or Halfie” is a written instructional guide offering advice on proper dating etiquette. The story is centered around an Afro-Dominican teenage boy who breaks down instructions on how to get laid with women based on their ethnicity and social class. He explains step by step how you should handle each woman, from changing your speech and behavioral approach depending on whether she was an insider or an outsider. However the narrator’s unreliability leaves the readers with questions on how true the story is or how it should be interpreted. The unreliability of the narrator in this story reveals a lack of pride in the narrator’s individuality, thus the facade he keeps up in order to hide his ethnicity and social class.
Every author has their own version of of loss and their own way of looking at it. Characters from each of these three short stories; “Night Calls”, “Typhoid Fever”, “Geraldo No Last Name” have to deal with a type of loss. Whether that person lost a family member like in “Night calls” or a complete stranger like in “Geraldo No Last Name” even a best friend like in “Typhoid fever” they all have to deal with some kind of form of death. The authors perspective’s in each story can change their own views on how they looked at each perspective of losing someone that impacted them somehow in their lives. The mood and tone of each story also have to do with the author's own perspectives showing through his or her work. Using
In conclusion, Marty becomes a better person after he has companionship with Claire. He has started a relationship with her due to the attraction theory, his and her’s self-concept is raised, and although he and Claire broke the rules of self-disclosure, they became better people. Marty was happier as well as Claire when they met each other. This classic love story describes how people can change once they interact with other people. Moreover, this is an example of how human beings in general need interaction to be normal functioning citizens of society. Having relationships, can make a person feel better about him and can possibly revolutionize or emerge a personality that was quiescent due to lack of interaction. This movie demonstrated many facets of interpersonal communication.
If Derwin and Melony were friends their behavior would have been less intimate and more report and rapport based in terms of surface based communicational styles. My point here is that because Derwin and Melony are in a relationship they are more in tuned with one another and interact with open verbal and non-verbal interactions. Derwin’s communication was encoded and decoded with the two culture theory in mind. This theory highlights the rules and norms of communication for men and women in a particular society. There were moments in Derwin and Melony’s communication when codability was established. For example Derwin refers to their favorite snack by its nickname and Melony interprets this
Throughout life, certain phrases and situations seem to reoccur with the same uniformity as if it were occurring for the very first time. Whether it is a coach’s motivating speech that you can recite after hearing it year after year or the principal’s first day of school disciplinary commands that you can regurgitate like your favorite theme song; so many situations in life have become cliché, uniform, and most of all mundane, but that is what I believe Orozco perfectly captures in his short story “Orientation”. Specifically, Orozco captures this mundane concept by the lack of dialogue and the repeated use of common-sense statements such as, “This is a microwavable oven. You are allowed to heat food in the microwave oven” (52). Additionally, the repeated use of the pronouns this, that, these, and those highlights uniformity because by constantly referring to objects as this or that, I believe Orozco is identifying an underlying action we as humans commit; how often do we view decisions and aspects of life as this and that
In this paper, I will be writing about a close friendship that ended over time with a high school friend whose name is Paulette. Through this friendship we had many fun high school memories, and I would say we were almost like best friends because we told each other everything. I noticed our friendship started deteriorating little by little after we graduated high school and more and more when went our separate ways for college. The five stages I will be explaining from Mark Knapp’s Development model will be Initiating, Intensifying, Differentiating, Stagnating, and Avoiding (Adler pg. 287-293).
“Though neither of them was exactly Ronnie’s type, it was impossible not to admire their lanky, muscular physiques and the fluid way they moved through the sand.” (Sparks 27). In time Ronnie and Will had built a connection and fell in love. They had their fights, but they also had great times together. They went swimming in the aquarium that Will worked at, they had mud fights, they helped sea turtles hatch and make their way to the ocean, and they attended Will’s sister’s wedding together. Will was also there for Ronnie while her father was ill. He did anything he could to help her out. Like any relationship, Ronnie and Will laughed and cried, they had even broken up at one point. Ultimately, Ronnie and Will end up together. I met a guy who I loved, we argued a lot, but the good times made up for it, we were always together. We were there for each other through the good times and bad. Like Ronnie and Will, we broke up. It had a major impact on me and my life then we made up and we got back together. He was even there for me when I had a death in my