Book Report
The Distance Between Us by Reyna Grande is a great book that has many psychological views, in this book report will talk about many of these psychological effect like resilient children, about the parents parenting styles, ethnic identity, and the influence of parents and peer. Also her stages that the writer went through, like childhood, adolescence, and adulthood. All these points also go through the last point which is her social psychology analysis, like attribution error, and discrimination.
Reyna Grande has wrote her childhood in a very detailed way. She talked about how her father left her and her siblings (Mago, Carlos) when she was two years old to go to the United states to find a better living, as well as how the separation from her father affected her on the long run. After a while, her mother them with their evil grandmother. The mother needed to go to be with her husband, “My husband needs me” (Grande). These two unfortunate incident left her pretty disappointed and sad with her parent, also the grandmother did not treat them well, she fed them scrapes, but the aunt helped to ease their pain a little bit. After a couple of years the parents back in the U.S have a baby and they named her Elizabeth, this is when the Reyna and her
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After when the kids came to the U.S, they came with a new mentality that they are going to move on, and create a new life. And that’s when the resiliency of children come from, even though they went through a lot, but when they moved to the U.S, all their mindsets changed. Her father was motivated for his kids to go to school and graduate high school , and get a degree, but even with that, not everyone was incline with the