In the altar’s center is “a plaster image of the Virgin of Guadalupe, quarter-life size, its brown Indian face staring down on the woman” (Paredes 23). The implication of the stare is of criticism as the Virgin, symbolic of an ideal Mexican womanhood, looks down on Marcela, whose Anglo features starkly contrast with the Virgin’s, and whose actions are in opposition to the values that she represents. This carefully constructed scene is meaningful. Marcela’s lifeless body lies between the bed and the altar, and opposite to the altar is Marcela’s shrine dedicated to Hollywood movie stars. These are the visual images of the opposing forces that characterize the Mexican-American struggle for resistance against American cultural hegemony.
A. Metalogicon B. John of Salisbury (John wrote about how Bernard of Chartres compared people to dwarves on the shoulders of giants, saying how "a dwarf sees farther than the giant, when he has the giant's shoulder to mount on.") C. I think Fahrenheit 451 would be banned because of some explicit content, discussions against drugs, going against certain religious beliefs, etc. However, I think this book should be kept and remembered because the society portrayed in the book is so readily disrupted by misinformation, censorship, and devices that divert attention from the reality of our world. We are seeing this today, and the situation truly emphasizes the value of knowledge and identity. D. This quote means that people build off those who
One place the audience sees this is when Luz said the word “cunt” in front of her parents and sister and her mom became very upset. The author explains, “I shrugged, but before I could drop my shoulders she slapped me across the face” (Zambrano 50). This clearly illustrates Alberto Zambrano’s use of imagery. It's visualizing how her mom slapped her. Since her mom slapped her that can create a negative relationship between them which goes with the theme.
In “How to date a brown girl….” Diaz’s main character is a Dominican young man growing up in poverty and living in a poor part of town. He works hard to hide this impoverishment from certain girls he tries to get with. Diaz uses lines like “Clear the governed cheese from the refrigerator” (Diaz, p.178) to show how the young man’s family is poor and receiving government assistance.
In the short story, “Mericans”, written by Sandra Cisneros, there are many underlying conflicts that surface throughout the story. The conflicts, in short, evolve around two very distinguished cultures. Furthermore, the clashing views regarding the two cultures cause a great amount of problems for many individuals in a society. The cultural differences can tremendously affect a society, as the clashing views can lead to a wide array of issues such as ethnocentrism, gender discrimination, stereotypes, as well as the health of many personal relationships. Cisneros begins to develop this conflict when the story’s narrator, Michele, describes the altar to La Divina Providencia in which the “awful grandmother” worships.
In conclusion, in the book “Violence and Hope in a U.S. – Mexico Border Town” the symbolic theory of being a man is considered to be a “macho” and to act like one, because that’s what men should do because that’s what their gender reflects, being the one who has the power. The symbol of female is to be the submissive role because the female gender reflects weakness to society. Even if in Esperanza are more nonmarianismo females, they were still women who were
The painter, rather than letting the composer inside her house, tells him—after it is implied that they are about to have sex—that she “[has] had a double mastectomy.” It is strange that she stops him at the door, instead of explaining while they are in the bed or at least inside her house, which could mean that other men were appalled by her not having any breast. He rejects her and the next morning on her door step he receives a “small blue bowl,” and inside of it there are “rose petals … on top” while the remainder of the bowl is filled with “dead bees.” This bowl serves as the primary symbol within Haas’ work and represents both the shallowness of the composer, and also likely how behind outward appearances, or what the world can see, there is ugliness in all of us whether physical or within our
In the world we live in today, people who have been sucked into the world of gangs and violence have become pariahs in society. The moving biography of Gregory Boyle, Tattoos on the Heart, captures the extent of gang violence though memoirs of numerous ex-gang and gang members. Boyle’s mission is to help these people with his endless compassion, fostering a sense of kinship, and helping them find self-love, ultimately forming a community unlike any other. The entire book revolves around compassion. When asked what compassion is, one of Father Greg’s students replied, “Compassion ...IS...
Title The average person wouldn’t spare a few dollars to help a starving person, but the Mirabal sisters sacrificed everything in order to help complete strangers . It has been almost a year since the horrid night when the Mariposas were brutally murdered by the tyrannical ruler Rafael Trujillo, and there is only one question which everyone is talking about. Was all of the sacrifices that the Mariposas made worth the end of Trujillo’s reign? The answer to this question is answered by answering another.
The visual analysis is somehow different from textual analysis where sharp contract of viewer’s eyes takes the whole story from the portrait. The texture of “Migrant Mother” is very tense and deep. The appearance looks very sad as the woman and her children asking for help. Obviously the woman and her children are in coarse clothing,
The desperation and despair on the mother’s face sums up the tragedy faced by a downtrodden society. It represents the love of a mother that gives everything she must comfort her children while not knowing how they will get their next meal. While the Migrant Mother photograph evokes feelings of great sadness, it also shows the determination and strength of American workers. The photograph is a symbol of all that is great and dissolute in our society. It is a representation of strength, desperation, love and
Picasso had many drawings that indirectly supported men to be the superior and wiser. For example, in his La vie painting he drew a naked woman standing beside a man who is wearing underwear, as on the other side there was another woman who was holding a baby. One can judge Picasso as a man who looked at women as sexual objects or mothers depending on what his paintings were about, especially this one. Therefore, one can realize how Picasso’s art has supported the inferiority of
In Mexican American society , women are deemed inferior to men, evident in traditional family roles, the male is the head of the family who provides for the family , while the woman stays at home to look after the children she is expected to provide for her husband . In the third vignette of ‘The House on Mango Street’ titled ‘Boys and Girls’ the reader is informed of the division between men and women when Esperanza refers to herself and her sister Nenny , and her brothers, “They’ve got plenty to say to me and Nenny inside the house. But outside they can’t be seen talking to girls”. The male dominance begins at a very young age.
“No, this isn’t my house I say and shake my head as if shaking could undo the year I’ve lived here (Cisneros 106).” This quote shows Esperanza’s unwillingness of accepting her poor neighbourhood because of the violence and inequality that has happened in it. In the House on Mango Street, the author, Sandra Cisneros, shows that there is a direct link between inequality, violence and poverty. The House on Mango Street shows women are held back by the inequalities that they face. Cisneros shows that racism prevents individuals from receiving job opportunities which leads to poverty and violence.
For instance, the item at top left shows the anatomy and the complexity of being pregnant (Self Portrait as a Tehuana, Autorretrato como Tenhuana, Frida). The baby boy in the middle of the painting symbolizes the baby Deigo she thought she would never have (Self Portrait as a Tehuana, Autorretrato como Tenhuana, Frida). The snail shows how slow and agonizing the miscarriage was (Self Portrait as a Tehuana, Autorretrato como Tenhuana, Frida). The machine in the bottom left was used to symbolize the cold machines they used on her at the hospital (Self Portrait as a Tehuana, Autorretrato como Tenhuana, Frida).
