In Maria Viramontes’ Under the Feet of Jesus Estrella is a confused, angry girl who is attempting to figure everything out. Estrella is unable to figure anything out without the help of Perfecto Flores, but with his help she is able to create some understanding about the importance of education and becomes less angry. Viramontes uses tone and figurative language to help show Estrella’s growth and development. The beginning of the passage has an angry tone.
The Nine by Jeffey Toobin is a book that gives readers an inside look at the Supreme Court. It talks about the people involved with the Supreme Court, and their impact on the laws of the United States. Toobin begins his book with a prologue that talks about how the architecture of the Supreme Court building is significant. The building has a set of stairs that symbolize the Supreme Court as separate and above the others. Also, the prologue talks about swing justices.
Introduce your response: After reading a few recorded accounts about The Little Rock Nine, the integration of Little Rock Nine Central, and an excerpt from “The Lions of Little Rock”, the author, Kristin Levine uses various facts and details as well as fictional elements in her story to create an interesting and unique novel for her readers. Explain the similarities: Kristin incorporates numerous details from historical accounts and articles about the integration of Little Rock Central into her novel. A few of the similarities in the novel and accounts were black children integrating into the High Schools, Little Rock, Arkansas, and Governor Faubus closing all of the High Schools. In the book, it talks about black kids integrating into the
In the documentary 13th by director Ava DuVernay, a racial stigma is investigated regarding the skin colors of those being incarcerated in the U.S. prison systems. Some questions being introduced in 13th leave us intrigued and those relate to the presidents at the time handling every situation differently. Those questions and many more will be answered along with a critique of the handling by those in power regarding incarceration. Many symbols with meaning are introduced in 13th, such as the whites power over the media, their exaggeration of the release of Birth of a Nation and the presidency itself. The documentary goes in-depth into the incarceration of many blacks, and it does that with the questions it asks.
The short story "An Hour with Abuelo" by Judith Ortiz Cofer, discusses the theme thats the way life is. "My mother tells me that Don Arturo had once been a teacher back in Puerto Rico, but had lost his job after the war. Then he became a farmer. She's always saying in a sad voice Ay, bendito! What a waste of a fine mind then casually shrugs her shoulders and says Así es la vida.
Introduction The book written by Eve Bunting, depicts the events that happened in 1992 when riots occurred in Los Angeles and the resultant consequences. The story revolves around a mother and her small boy by the name of Daniel, who were forced to vacate from their residence due to riots of Los Angeles that resulted from a ruling given by a jury that passed on the acquittal of the four police officers from Los Angeles. In order to understand the book, it is important we look at the events that led to the theme behind the book. On March 3rd, 1991 in Los Angeles, four police officers of white descent brutally assaulted a black man by the name of Rodney King which was captured on video.
The Central Five Case, Matias Reyes. The Story of Believing. By, Autumn Puckett-DesJardin Hi.
The author, Sandra Cisneros, uses literary techniques in “Eleven” to characterize Rachel by using metaphors, comparisons, and repetition. In the beginning of Sandra Cisneros’s short story, she states that when a person becomes an age older they will not feel a difference. The character Rachel explains that in different situations, for example, “Like some days you might say something stupid, and [you will feel ten]” a person might feel different from their actual age. She then competes growing old to layers of an onion, rings of a tree, wooden dolls that fit inside each other because, according to her, “that’s how being eleven years old is”.
The tone of the story is important in making the story sound like it is being to through the eyes of an eleven year old girl, such phrases like “pennies rattling in a band-aid box” and “my whole head hurts like when you drink milk too fast.” All these are certain phrases that would be used in an eleven year old's life, bandaids for the bumps and scrapes, and the milk that your parents would make you drink. That is the tone Eleven sets, a young girl telling us her humiliating story while she is still a child. Sandra Cisneros does an excellent job at using literary devices to characterize Rachel in “Eleven”. By using imagery, simile, and tone we can see that Rachel is a empathetic, bashful, wise, but still naive in her own ways.
What core elements define the essence of humanity? In Mandel’s novel, one is compelled to reconsider the defining characteristics of humanity. Mandel structures the plot of Station Eleven around the main character Arthur Leander’s life. Throughout the novel, Mandel explores a series of sub character’s perspectives of the flu pandemic and each of their roles in the post-apocalyptic world it creates, encouraging the reader to delve into the relationships between humanity and art. Book reviewer Justine Jordan from The Guardian summarizes the book perfectly by claiming that “Station Eleven is not so much about [an] apocalypse as about memory and loss, nostalgia, and yearning” (Jordan, par. 5).
The Outs and Ins of Julia Alvarez Writing poetry for a profession is a very challenging task, but taking up poetry as well as writing novels is even harder. Julia Alvarez manages to do both, all while attempting to adjust to the life as an immigrant in the US from the Dominican Republic, only as a young girl. In Julia Alvarez’s poetry, she portrays a common theme in her writing, focused on her entire experience as an immigrant, from isolation, and heartbreak, to gratitude and new opportunities. New York City, 1950, happens to be the birthplace of Julia Alvarez, but the Dominican Republic was where she lived as a child, when her family was forced to return back there shortly after her birth, due to her father’s poor actions.
Within the recent events of the overturning of Roe V Wade the opinions on abortion have been at the forefront of political conversations. Especially among the people who are pro-life and pro-choice. Pro-life believes that an unborn fetus is a life and killing it is killing a person, meanwhile pro-choice is the belief that someone who is carrying the fetus has the right to choose whether they keep it or not. The article “3 Compelling Reasons I am Pro-life” by Tim Counts on the website erlc is about the reasoning behind this man’s point of view. The article uses three points religion, science, and “human flourishing and love”.
In “Only Daughter” by Sandra Cisneros, she describes a series of events throughout her life that all relate to her relationship with her father. Cisneros begins her story by talking about how she was seen as “only a daughter”. She then transitions to talking about her education and her father’s opinion on what it is for and worth. Cisneros then ends it with a conclusion between her and her father which involved one of her stories. Throughout the story, Cisneros talks about what she believed her father thought about her and her career choices, and they turn out to be a bit different than what she thought.
Sandra Cisneros’ short story “Eleven”, poem “My Wicked Wicked Ways”, and book The House on Mango Street have many similarities and differences in terms of style, tone, theme, character and setting. In the short story “Eleven”, Sandra Cisneros manages to convey a powerful message about growing up from the perspective of an eleven year old. The story starts out with Rachel, the protagonist, who is turning eleven today. It starts out with her at school while she's in math class.
The short story “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” is written by Joyce Carol Oates and talks about a girl named Connie who is a carefree fifteen-year-old girl. When she is faced with Arnold Friend, a man who is trying to flirt with her and tries to get her to his car, she does not want it. Connie did not expect this encounter and becomes afraid when she comes across Arnold. Connie, who made “. .sure her own [looks were] all right” (988), wanted to become independent and do things that not every girl her age does, faces a male who wants her, but she does not want him, she begins to become afraid.
