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Analyzing Papi's The Dreamer

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Reaching for the stars … but is it what you are actually going to do? In the passage The Dreamer by Steven Frank Papi does not follow his dream when he had the chance, but when that chance comes up again he takes it. In the passage Roberto Ignacio Torres Bakes by Pam Munoz Ryan A boy had a dream to be a poet, but his father didn’t approve so he changed his name. Both passages have a struggle, but they both do get solved. In the passage, “The Dreamer” a man named Papi had a dream to be a baker, but he knew that he couldn’t follow it because he had to do the work that his dad did before him. His daughter, Lita got a bunch of baking supplies so her an her dad could bake them an sell them at the Market. Papi changes near the end when he realizes that his dream has opened a door for him, so then he starts to sell the baked goods that he and his daughter had baked. “I dreamed to be a Papi” Papi had said to his daughter Lita, he didn’t want to tell her his real dream because he knew that his real dream wouldn’t happen. “I think he has a dream that he let go.” Lita said, she knows that he …show more content…

Over the course of the story, Naftali started off sad, but when he changed his name he was so happy that his dad wouldn’t get shamed for having a son as a poet and he could still be a poet. “At the end of his poem, instead of signing Neftali Eyes, he wrote Pablo Neruda” That is the moment when Naftali realized how to be a poet and not embarrass his dad. “When he lived in rooms that were no larger than a cell; when he had barely enough money to eat when he had no friends an pulled deep within

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