A story Enrique 's Journey written by Sonia Nazario is a book about a boy on his Journey to the united states. On Enrique’s Journey, he comes to a point where he has to make a tough decision between staying in the united states and going back to Honduras. Enriques dilemma is that he has just as many reasons to go back to Honduras as he does to stay in the united states. One example of Enrique wanting to stay in the United States seen when Enrique finally sees his mother “ He Jumps squarely onto the bed next to her he gives her a hug then a kiss“ (Nazario 190). Enrique wants to stay in the united states because of many reasons because there’s better job’s, less gang’s, better pay, fewer drugs, has a stepsister Diana and his mother in the united
In her teenage years at George Washington High School, Sonia describes herself as a shy, unobtrusive girl who always keep her head down. With many climactic experiences, the short story “Norma” by Sonia Sanchez describes the author’s own teenage life as a student who works and studies hard. The story starts off with Sonia, straining in factoring an equation in math class. She was gaining the courage to ask Mr. Castor, who gave no helpful response.
In the haunting short story entitled “Norma” written by author Sonia Sanchez, Sonia draws the story to a powerful end by vowing “never to agree again”. At a cursory glance, it appears that she is vowing never to meet Norma again. However, a deeper examination reveals that she makes this promise in order to affirm that she will never again agree to the rigged system that transformed an intelligent and promising young woman into a drug-addled mother of four. As the opening lines of the story, Sanchez describes her own personality as a teenager as “... very shy.
During grade school Norma had been so popular and really smart, and since freshman year her life tumbled down. It changed Sonia’s whole perspective on who Norma really was. Sonia maybe had thoughts that someday Norma would be successful, but not after seeing
Throughout the development of this book, many themes and ideas about the book develop to help explain the characters and why they made the decisions they made. It is clear that one’s identity back in those days was connected to one’s gender and so I argue that even though the relationships between opposite genders seem more positive in the book, the same gender relationships are more stable even in their different degrees of tension. We first see this through an observation of the relationship between Lola and her mother Belicia.
Minerva’s father cheats on his wife with a woman named Carmen Maria. With Carmen, he fathers four girls, who live a life of poverty and no education. After realizing the lack of schooling the children receive, Minerva asks their mother, “The girls are not in school, are they?... May I enroll them when I get back?” (105).
Sonia saw the Norma with heavy eyelids, four children, and tracks on her legs and arms. The genius, the linguist, the brain, all the things Sonia used to think of Norma as was no longer there. Norma was Sonia’s role model but because of her poor decisions she had let her down. She hoped that Norma’s children would be different and not become like Norma. All throughout Sonia's school life she had expected Norma to become superior in academics, but to know the fact that she went to college while Norma had more kids and did drugs would have changed Sonia's idea of who Norma
The author's attitude towards the boys in this novel is ignorant and emotional. This novel is composed of vignettes that show Esperanza learn about the true power of language and the struggle for self- definition. While befriending Sally, she learns more about boys and matures sexually. During the year, Esperanza develops her first crush and even endures sexual assault. From this, her first impression and ignorance over the topic of boys and having the thought process that girls and boys live in different worlds, awakens Esperanza and teaches her an important lesson and becomes to an eyeopening experience.
In Deborah Ellis's novel diego the main character is heavily influenced by the norms of his society. One way deigo has been influenced by society norms is when mondo was trying to chose what he should do regards to becoming a drug maker and seller just like the people that hired them to help. “They are businessmen, Tycoon, just like you and me. We are not like them! Well maybe we should be!
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