What can last forever? Even though people get old,humans need to love and cherish their time with their families because one day, the family members will not be there anymore. In literature, there are universal themes that recur because no matter how different people are, they share basic experiences concerns, and values.Themes recur because human beings are more similar than different, no matter what the culture. Leo Tolstoy’s Russian folk tale “The Grandfather and His Little Grandson” and Sandra Cisnero’s poem “Abuelito Who” have the same universal theme about the importance of grandchildren always loving and respecting their grandparents.
In “The Grandfather and His Little Grandson”, a Russian folk tale, the old and weak grandfather was
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Sandra shows how much her abuelito loves her in lines 7-8, “Who tells me in Spanish you are my diamond, Who tells me in English you are my sky”. Getting to the end it gets very choppy and dark. In the beginning, she starts with saying in lines 1-2 “Abuelito who throws coins like rain, and ask who loves him who”, then she uses metaphors to describe him in lines 3-5, “Who is dough and feathers, who is watch and glass of water, whose hair is made of fur”. This shows how ability is healthy, joyful, and caring. The next line says how abuelito is too gloomy to come downstairs. Then the poem goes sad, in lines 11-13 it states how ability is sad and sick, “Sleeps in his little room all night and day, who used to laugh like the letter k, is sick”. The mood is happy like a pig in mud, but it gets very rough at the end like losing something that means a lot to you, describing how abuelito is healthy but getting ill. This poem shows the importance of how Sandra loves her abuelito. But also that we should appreciate the time we have now to be with our grandparents because one day they might get sick and not be there the next day. Like how in the poem, abuelito is very sick and possibly near