Comparison Of Confetti Girl And Tortilla Sun

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In Confetti Girl and Tortilla Sun the point of views in each story are different and similar because, in both of the stories the parents go toward either a job or the academic side for there son or daughter. In Confetti Girl the author is Diana Lopez and in Tortilla Sun the author is Jenifer Cervantes.

In Confetti Girl the girl has a project that she needs to do. Her dad tries to help her but she refuses to read the book. In the story this causes tension between the characters because, in the paragraphs that it started tension is in paragraph 33 and 34 it says” Sure dad ill start reading right away” when she said that sarcastic remark it leads to more tension in the story. In these paragraphs these cause great tension because she purposely

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