In the short story “It’s That It Hurts” by Tomas Rivera, a boy gets expelled. The “it” in this short story is his hope, because he hopes that he will be a telephone operator, hopes that his mother will walk in with him on his first day of his new school, and he hopes that he won’t get in trouble with his parents. This shows that his hope is lost throughout the short story. To begin with, his parents have always had high hopes that their son will become a telephone operator. When he gets expelled he starts thinking that he won’t be a success to his parents, because he won’t graduate and succeed in his dream job.
The Author also shows us different types of tone and also irony throughout this short story. The boy in this short stories name is Yunior. We can infer that Yunior is a high school student maybe in his sixteens. Yunior is a Dominican Immigrant that has a lot of cultural and social insecurities. Diaz’s focal point is not only stereotypes and their ability for
Danielle Pangan Mrs. Grant English 1 Honors November 29, 2022 Overcoming Hardships “My success made me happy, but, this time, the grades seemed less important than what I had learned from reading the book.” (Jimenez 102). Throughout his life, Francisco Jimenez learned to endure his hardships and strive for success. In the book Breaking Through by Francisco Jimenez, the common themes of education, poverty, and prejudice are shown.
He emphasizes his childhood and how his previous childhood came to an ending as he arrived at the land of the gringos. Rodriguez and his family strive to be accepted into the community, but it was laborious. Rodriguez came to a conclusion that society had an abhor aspect towards him and the family because of their Spanish heritage, but most significant the language that the Rodriguez family spoke. Eventually, the criticism towards Rodriguez would later influence him tremendously. Rodriguez grew older with the influence of the gringos who were significant for his future that laid ahead of him.
Only speaking SPanish made him a “disadvantaged child.” He expanded from that to become one of the public. He then goes on to say that his conversations accelerated, sounds formed sentences, and hello what’s your name, turned into new friends. Rodriguez uses the term “disadvantaged child” once more in the essay. This time he uses it to claim that Spanish is a private language and English is a public one and that people have an obligation to speak the English in AMerica.
The short story “It’s That It Hurts” by Tomas Rivera follows the story of a young Mexican migrant child and his family trying to build a new life in the USA. He currently lives in a town where his family has sent him to school. In school, he experiences constant discrimination and is often made to be embarrassed and angry. After getting into multiple fights, he is expelled from school and is wondering what he should do next. In Tomas Rivera’s “It’s That It Hurts,” the “it” that hurts is the systemic racism the protagonist faces.
The amount of suffering both of the families in these stories endudured could not be blamed entirely on the authorities in these stories. All of the characters in these stories had a mind of their own, a conscious of their own , they were able to make rational decision between right and wrong. Therefore, the most damage the characters in both stories endured was a product of their own weakness and inabilities to take a stand against authority. They made the ultimate choice to surrender and therefore causing great pain to each other . In conclusion, after many attempts to make it through their new journey the honest way they could, both families realize that good intentionally are useless in such a world that feast on the destruction of
Mindy Kaling wrote the chapter “Is Every Hanging Out Without Me? (Or, How I Made My First Real Friend)” to give a significant message about not being afraid of what others think and how they perceive others near you. To help spread her advice Kaling tells a narrative about her friendships in middle school and how she learned this lesson the hard way. She does this by introducing her friend Marvis, but the narrator and Marvis are only friends on the weekend; but on the weekdays she possess friends that are much different than Marvis. Through this entire chapter, Kaling says that “more and more times, I found that I didn’t want to do what JLMP (their initial letter in their first name) wanted to do” (4), which lays out that the group of friends
This conveys that an individual may experience deep feelings of sadness and depression caused by loneliness and not being listened to, thus enforcing the importance for a transition to occur in life to enable her to experience positive
In the short story “It’s That It Hurts” by Thomas Rivera, a boy gets expelled. The “It” that hurts is his hope, because he does not think he can ever go back to school, he will not be able to do his dream job, and he thinks he let down his parents. To begin with one reason the boys hope hurts is because he does not think he can go back to school. In the text the boy says “I won't be able to go to school anymore.” He thinks that it is the end of school for him so he loses his hope.
In enduring these complex emotions, this section was the most remarkable part. One of the first apparent emotions the boy experiences with the death of his father is loneliness to make this section memorable. The boy expresses this sentiment when he stays with his father described as, “When he came back he knelt beside his father and held his cold hand and said his name over and over again,” (McCarthy 281). The definition of loneliness is, “sadness because one has no friends or company.”
What is happiness? In Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, happiness consists of restricting freedom and only having simple pleasures. By reducing freedom, the people do not need to make decisions that cause anxiety and dissatisfaction. I believe that this is a skewed definition of happiness that takes away from complex nature of humans. Simple pleasures simply do not equal happiness.
Thus, friendships must be considered a crucial relationship among people. Moreover, one of the interviewees went as far to say, "They become outcasts and incredibly depressed to the point of suicide making it necessary to make close friends. " This means
It's much easier to say that they are missing out on him rather than he missing out on them. It's really easy to hate women when you're repeatedly rejected by them. He dismisses school because it's way easier to say that the teachers are bs than that it's hard or that he's struggling. The Author uses humor throughout the book to lighten the mood.
Broken heart hurts your feeling. Nobody associates broken heart with happiness. Likewise, I felt terribly sad when I had my heart broken. I remember it felt so disastrous for me that I almost couldn 't do anything for one month. However, as time passed by, I began to think about what lesson I could learn from it.
