ipl-logo

Summary Of Home: The Blueprints Of Our Lives By Narciso Rodriguez

616 Words3 Pages
In comparison to the author's tone, the reader may feel something while watching or reading novels, movies, or articles that lead to different types of moods that occur in our everyday life. The short story, "Home: The Blueprints of Our Lives" by Narciso Rodriguez focuses on how one small simple house can turn into a home and the love and support of friends and family encouraged him. Growing up, Narciso learned to appreciate his parents for what they have done, and how the family is not just by blood, but the family can also be a friend. This touching story leaves the readers mood in a whirlwind, some include comforting and appreciative which are demonstrated multiple times.
One mood throughout the story is the feeling of being comforted. For
Show More
Related
1041 Words | 5 Pages

In the novels Night and House on Mango Street, the authors reveal the protagonists struggles with coming of age through the description of their experiences; Reminding the audience that it is possible to find happiness after surviving the darkest moments in an individual's life. In the

Read More
776 Words | 4 Pages

The modernization of ideas and culture in America have brought forth a lot of change since the years after the revolution. One of the major ideologies that have major effect on United States and Mexican culture and policy, is Marijuana. In Homegrown, Isaac Campos studies several federal publications, such as laws, written policies, etc. and some records of arrests involving the use of Marijuana. Campos portrays Latin American society in this story to help represent the outlook on Marijuana and the effects its presence had, compared to the softer opinion towards the drug today.

Read More
1865 Words | 8 Pages

There are four Walls children that are ages sixteen, thirteen, twelve, and seven. The children live at 93 Little Hobart Street, Welch, West Virginia with their parents, Rex and Rosemary Walls. Their gray and yellow house sits high up off the road where the front is angled toward the street. The living conditions in this home are not suitable and are a hazard to the family. The exterior of the house includes a rotting wooden porch and stairs with spongy floorboards.

Read More
608 Words | 3 Pages

"I will always be grateful to my parents for their love and sacrifice"(Rodriguez). Narciso Rodriguez, the author, is about to move into a different house and reflects on what makes his plain old house a special home in his memoir, "Home: The Blueprints of Our Lives." Rodriguez reminds himself of all the different kinds of events that happened in his home. Because of the affectionate memories and connections that Rodriguez makes to the past and the gratitude towards his parents, he builds a complex nostalgic and sentimental mood that highly appeals to the readers.

Read More
1130 Words | 5 Pages

For all

Read More
966 Words | 4 Pages

Home;Noun: The place where one lives permanently, especially as a member of a family or household. That is the literal definition of a home, but to some “Home is where the heart is”, home is the place where we feel the most in tune, where there is no fear to be yourself. Where you can discover who you are and what you want without any judgment. The place where you feel the safest, the most insync with your mind, soul, and aspirations. It doesn't need to be a place with four walls and a roof.

Read More
566 Words | 3 Pages

The author wrote “the house that I stay in it was not like home because I didn't have my own room so I got used to it”. The similarities of these vignettes are that both authors need to share their rooms with their families.

Read More
961 Words | 4 Pages

For

Read More
745 Words | 3 Pages

Often, people feel out of place in a certain environment. Rarely is it ever that a person has this feeling in his own home. This is how Paul feels in Willa Cather’s story “Paul’s Case”. The main character Paul despises the life that he lives at home and at school. He feels as though the people around him cannot comprehend the feelings that he experiences.

Read More
346 Words | 2 Pages

Within the given passage, the Walls family moves into a new house that is a piece of junk. The author of this text, Jeannette Walls, conveys the idea that even though their father is drunk all the time, and their mother is too positive, it helps them cope with what they are going through, like moving into their new house on Little Hobart Street. Through diction, Walls shows that the family’s positive thinking and dreams get them through these rough times. Jeannette knows that the house isn’t in the best shape, but the family still finds light in it. One example that demonstrates how bad the house is, “The houses up here were shabbier than the brick houses lower down in the valley”

Read More
449 Words | 2 Pages

In long fiction, the introductory passages of a novel suggest a universal truth of the human condition. In doing so readers can connect to the fictional setting and conflicts relating it to the on life allowing the reader to responded to the actions of the charters as the would in their life. Writers using the universal truth like the feeling of home like Bill Barich and J.D. Salinger authors of “Laughing in the Hills” and “The Catcher in the Rye” Respectfully write about the human response incoming or leaving home. Bill Barich was able to show the feelings with coming home and the ideal of family in his story. It starts with the protagonist finding out his mother has cancer and all he can remember is the sense of “slippage,” he had on his

Read More
825 Words | 4 Pages

In the passage from Staying Put: Making a Home in a Restless World, the author, Scott Sanders critically counters Salman Rushdie’s claim that migration is essential and effective. He also acts as a fair debater by explaining Rushdie's claims, though he uses a critical tone to emphasize that unlike Rushdie, he believes that staying put is better than migrating. Aside from using tone, as Sanders argues his perspective, he uses powerful diction to characterize certain ideas negatively or positively. Sanders also uses sophisticated language, including metaphors and personification, to support his points and give the readers a bigger sense of the negative effects of migration. Furthermore, by referring to historical examples, Sanders makes his argument more credible, therefore reinforcing his

Read More
691 Words | 3 Pages

The narrator’s description of his house as well as his surroundings reflects how he feels on the inside. For example, when the narrator describes his house, he paints a picture of a run down, stale smelling environment where a priest had died previously. Also, the narrator

Read More
432 Words | 2 Pages

The personification of the Happylife Home sparks life into the machinery and gives it the purpose of pleasing the humans. A display of compassion and warmth create the welcoming atmosphere every home should have. In contrast with the actual people living here, "this house which clothed and fed and rocked them to sleep and played and sang and was good to them" (p1) appeared to be more humane. The Hadleys were a troubled family. Adults who abandoned the responsibilities of being parents became irrelevant to the lives of their own children.

Read More
791 Words | 4 Pages

Home is derived from the word “house” and then further from there the Old English word hām. The word doesn’t mean cooked pig but in reality it is a version of home that translates to a dwelling or enclosed area. When you are home with the one you love you, the gathering of loved are together. In this etymology of the word it further illustrates that home isn’t just a place, it is in those you love. The latin word for home is domus.

Read More

More about Summary Of Home: The Blueprints Of Our Lives By Narciso Rodriguez

Related Topics

Open Document