Confetti Girl And Tortilla Sun Essay

It is extremely normal for teens to fight and argue with their parents. In the passages Confetti Girl and Tortilla Sun, the narrator has a feeling of negligence from their parent. Both kids have only one parent and tension begins to build because both have different points of views. In both of the stories, the parent and child don't see to face which creates tension because the parent disregards their child’s interests, and they both have trouble connecting with their parent. In passage Tortilla Sun Izzy’s mom gets an offer to finish her research in Costa Rica and Izzy thinks she is going with her. When her mom tells her she will spending her summer in New Mexico with her grandma things start to turn. “Why do you always get to decide everything? We just unpacked and I- I had plans,”(Cervantes). Izzy’s feels as if she is the mother is neglecting her interest and is only in it for her. That’s when things start to get heated. This show’s tension between both because they both have different interests but her mom decides for her. Not because she wants

For instance, in Confetti Girl and Tortilla Sun, both lose a parent. Which gives them a sense of hopelessness. In Confetti Girl the dad and the daughters have trouble connecting. In the beginning of the passage, it states “Mom always had after-school projects waiting for me.’Can you help decorate cookies?’she'd say. Or, "Go outside and pick some flowers.’ Or, ‘Fix my nails, please.’” She loved to paint them, but since she wasn't coordinated with her left hand, her right-hand nails looked like a preschooler's coloring page.”(1) This quote shows how she and her mom had strong connections, and after she probably was gone, the connection was lost, and it’s harder with only one parent. That's what creates tension since one bond between a parent was lost, it was harder to have such a great connection when there’s one