It seems that every sibling doesn’t always have a great relationship with their older or younger siblings. In the movie “Real Women Have Curves”, we have two sisters, Anna and Estella,who seem not to get along in the beginning because of their differences, but at the end they become the best of friends because they have similar dreams and learn to support each other. The advantage of Anna and Estella’s relationship is that they benefit from each other. The whole story is that you don’t always realize how much you have in common with your siblings until you realize that you have similar dreams and can be there for each other. Anna is not afraid to speak her mind. For instance, when her mom is she is so called “sick.” Anna asks her mom if her hearing is okay, she says “Yes”. Therefore, Anna tells her that there is nothing wrong with her and leaves her Mom’s room. She is outspoken when she stood up to her Mom at the factory; Anna was tired of her mom telling her that she is overweight. Anna stood up to her mom and said “ You’re overweight as well, so why are you judging me if we both have the same weight.” Anna is outspoken when on her last day of school, she goes to her job and quits, …show more content…
An example of her being confident is when Estella was going to the company that wanted the dresses, Estella wanted more time to make the dresses, but when Estella told the lady, she backed off, but that didn’t keep Anna from asking the lady for more time or pay for the dresses when Estella wasn’t brave enough to ask her once more. Anna was confident was when she was with Jimmy, and Anna showed who she really was and didn’t care what other people said about her body. This goes to show that that she loves her body and herself.Another example of her being confident is when she goes to her Dad at work and he lends her money to pay rent for Estella’s factory. This just goes to show that she is a confident and
The scene was acquired from the play Real Women Have Curves by Josefina Lopez. The characters are five Latina, overweight women by the names of Ana, Estela, Carmen, Pancha, and Rosali. Carmen is the mother of Ana and Estela, so the sewing factory these women work could be a family business, since the owner of the factory is Estela. Therefore, being a factory on stage for this scene probably in the past because from the scene, you can tell there is no air conditioning and they are sewing the material themselves. They also mention “La Migra” and how most of them had papers and some didn’t. In addition, the scene begins with Ana, undressing herself due to the unbearable heat. The women start picking on her because of her fat however Ana doesn’t seem to care because she loves her body and doesn’t need to be treated as a sexual object. The other women join the conversation and conclude undressing themselves comparing body parts to examine who has the worst overweight condition (which seems to be the conflict yet sets the mood to a comedic one). They end feeling
While most movies of the 2000s somehow spoke about sex among young adults, for the first time the emphasis is on the virginity of a Mexican American female. In part this topic is not discussed openly, it is only discussed awkwardly in a mother to daughter conversation. This movie opens the eye to many families conservative other this matter, Ana’s mother openly shames her daughter to losing her virginity to a random person which was not the case. In this scene, rather than have a heartwarming conversation with her daughter she is angry possibly at her daughter but possibly at herself for not knowing what her daughter was doing. Ana is prepared to lose her virginity and is responsible to purchase contraceptives something also talked about but mostly whispered in the chicano community. Ana states that women get pregnant not because they are having sex but because they are having it unprotected or don’t know how to use different methods of contraceptive. The talk among Mexican American families is not how to use contraceptives rather it is do not get pregnant or “ELSE”. Real Women Have Curves shows that the real problem is not getting pregnant it is the lack of communication Mexican American women have with their
There is an abundant amount of movies that are inspiring to people, and throughout the years there have been empowering messages for some women. In Real Women Have Curves produced by Effie Lavoo and George brown, there is an empowering message for women of all types. The film is about a Spanish 18-year-old girl who struggles with a life of a regular Spanish woman. While this movie applies more towards Spanish woman it can also empower women of all types. Ana the main character wants to attend college, and she is a bright girl. The problem is she cannot attend college ,because, of the nature of the Spanish community she comes from. The mother constantly puts her down for her weight and not being marriage material. Ana is also expected to help the family with earning money, which is one of the reasons she is not being allowed to go to college. As the mother says, “I have worked since I was 13 years old now it is her turn” (). Ana’s mother believes Ana need to work for the family since she has become of age, and that she needs to get married because that is what women are supposed to do.
This is highlighted through the fact that Laura rarely speaks about herself but when she does her self doubt, and fears are quite
Throughout the whole played Anne made a subtle change that made a large difference. In the start of the play Anne stayed to herself she never told anyone how she felt she just kept to herself. When she kept everything to herself the only thing she had to express her feelings was to her diary. But as the play went on she started opening up to people and telling them how she felt. For example she talked to her dad more about how she felt about being in hiding. Then toward the end of the play Anne would talk and be with Peter when she could. She learned how to cope and express her feelings with other people instead of keeping everything to herself to deal with societal challenges.
For this assessment, I have chosen the movie Real Women Have Curves. The movie follows a traditional Mexican family and their struggle to survive in America. The film focuses, on the youngest American-born daughter Ana. Ana lives in a Hispanic community in East Los Angeles the daughter of Latino working immigrants from Mexico. Her family unit consists of her parents, two brothers, older sister and her grandfather. The movie shows the conflict Ana faces between the clashes of the two cultures. The film shows that Ana goes to great lengths to attend school every day. Ana has had a successful school career, as her peers are getting ready to attend college. She’s expected to get a job to financially help her struggling family. She
She was able to turn the isolation around and pride herself on it, taking it in as part of her personality, but that is a very early step in the process of fully coming to accept yourself and letting others in. She speaks repeatedly of her self-love; however, she also reveals that she feels like an actress in everyday life. There is so much evidence of deep-rooted insecurities written between the lines of her essay, but it seems she is too afraid to reveal these truths to herself, despite her “heightened awareness of her own tendencies.” Lying to oneself is the easiest and most natural thing in the
Throughout the entire novel Annabel shows that she keeps everything in. She has a secret that she cannot get herself to tell to anyone; “The worst part was that I had things I wanted to tell my mother… She'd been through too much…I could not add to the weight… I did my best to balance it out, bit by bit, word by word, story by story, even if none of them were true” (Hannah 106). Although I don’t have a big secret that I’m keeping in, I can relate to Annabel. I have trouble opening up to people. I feel like if I tell people things that are bothering me it will just burden them, so instead I keep everything in. Similar to Annabel, I know this isn’t the right way to deal with things, but I still can’t seem to get myself to change it. In the end of the book Annabel figures out how to deal with her secret, and eventually tells her boyfriend and family. I am also connecting Annabel’s boyfriend, Owen, to one of my friends. When Annabel was popular and had all her other friends, she thought Owen was a loner. He always had headphones in, he didn’t hang out with anyone, and he had been to jail in the past. She judged him based on those things and never got to know the real him. When she lost all her friends over the summer, she started sitting at the same table as him because everyone else hated her. She eventually learned the real him and realized that she was too quick to judge. I have also had a similar
Anne always stays positive and supportive, for example, she says, “Whoever is happy will make others happy too.” This shows that shes always tries to stay positive not only for herself, but to keep
She loves to talk all about herself and how great she is at everything. This is exhibited while talking to Anne about all the boyfriends she had when she was little:
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From the very beginning, Anna's first impression on Caro was a positive one. Caro had been through so much in the past several months that she appreciated every little thing Anna did for her such as dusting and cleaning her room, changing her sheets and bringing her a linen cloth with her meal. Unlike Harriet and Rose, Anna went out of her way to get to know Caro on a...
Additionally, the alienation that she felt between romance and objectification was not the only binary that Anna struggled with. She also struggled with feeling that she did not belong in England. She frequently mentioned that she was always cold and could never become warm. She enjoyed the warmth, sunshine, and outdoors in Jamaica and living in a cold and dreary environment was a dramatic change for her. This binary was one that caused her to feel depressed and sad, something that she repeated very often. She struggled with depression in almost all areas of her life and would lay in bed for hours. The depression that Anna struggled with hindered her development and extenuated her lack of agency. It also exemplified the lack of control that
Anna plays the role of the classic submissive female married to David's classic chauvinist male. "Wanting to remain attractive to her husband, Anna attempts to conform to the eroticized and commodified images of women promulgated in the mass culture" (Bouson 44). Although the novel is set during the 1970"s, the decade of one of the great feminist movements in our history, Anna remains a woman who maintains herself for her husbands benefit. In a critical scene in the novel, the narrator sees Anna applying makeup. When she (the narrator) tells her that it is unnecessary where they are Anna says "He doesn't like to see me without it," and then quickly adds, "He doesn't know I wear it" (41).
...e realizes that those experiences are what shaped her into the young women she is now. All those years of convincing herself that her appearance is the reason why people tend to hate her and push her away, suddenly come crashing down on her when she realizes that looks are merely part of what makes her unique. Also the high expectations that society places on women makes it hard for a young girl to grow on her own, especially if she has a mindset of her own. However, Anne uses that for her own benefit by creating barriers into opportunities. Lastly, Anne Shirley does not only make herself proud with the identity created by working hard day and night, but also to make all the people in her life proud as well. “Aren’t you proud of that Anne-girl? I am” (Montgomery 329)