Little events in something can turn out to have huge impacts on someone's life. Literature and stories can demonstrate moments of truth in many ways, such as someone going to a park that leads to someone robbing another person, and way more. In the text, Tequila Worm by Viola Canales and Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut, characters/people experience moments of truth that change their lives. In the text Tequila Worm, this event changed how Sofia sees her culture. In the story Sofia, the main character is ashamed of eating food from her culture so she always sits alone at lunch. She was more embarrassed than ever when she got called Taco Head by one of her peers. First, Sofia would sit at the kitchen table and say, “Mama, can I please have …show more content…
She spilled it all over her white sweater. So, Coach Clarke took Sofia to the teacher's lounge to clean her up. Ultimately, Sofia got invited to eat with Coach Clarke and she was told not to listen to what negative people say. So now she is not ashamed of her food/culture. However, the big girl does call Sofia a taco head, so, she is embarrassed. Therefore, she spills it all over her and consequently, Coach Clarke does not see it. In the text Harrison Bergeron, this one event changed when Harrison escapes jail to try and overthrow the government. In the story, Harrison gets sent to jail because the Government thinks that he will overthrow them. He escapes after a few years and tries to overthrow the government by taking off his handicap. Shortly after, he was shot to death. At first, a ballerina announces that "Harrison Bergeron, age fourteen, has just escaped from jail, where he was held on suspicion of plotting to overthrow the government. He is a genius and an athlete, is under-handicapped, and should be regarded as extremely dangerous." Therefore, Harrison goes into the recording room. So then, a ballerina gets chosen to be his mate and they start