Fiesta 1980 Essay

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If a child grow up in a broken family then it can leads them to experience emotional or physical abuse. As people say love is an emotion of strong affection and personal attachment.
Having a good relation between parent and child is very important in every family. In the story
"Fiesta 1980" by Junot Diaz and the story ''Sticks'' by George Saunders the boys tell their childhood memories and it shows how there's no love between father and son. In the story
''Fiesta 1980'' the son's vomitting represent that there's something wrong with him and that he's calling for help. However his father ignore that. And that effect the son mentally and physically.
On the other hand, in the story ''Sticks'' the father doesnt's understand the value of
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Love and respect are the things that is missing from those two story.

The story ''Fiesta 1980'' by Junot Diaz recalls the childhood experience of a father and son. Yunior and his family moved from Domican Republic to Bronx, New York city. Yunior is having phychosomtic illness, physicals symptoms that was created by mind and emotions.
Yunior get sick every time he gets into his father's green van. His father has a puerto Rican mistress and that's why he feels disgusted towards his father and throws up in his van. His father even take him to his mistress house. He loves his mother so much that he hides his father's affair becuase he don't want to hurt her. His father bought the green van for showing off to his mistress and that is why Yunior only throws up in that van. It gets his father irritated and annoyed. But Yunior's father ignores all abuse his causing on his son. There's no love, no communication or respect between father and son.

The story ''Stick'' by George Saunders is a personal story of his relationship with his father. At first, in the story the pole seems to simple serve as the story suggests as the father's
''One concession to glee'' a place where he decorates all the holidays. The father

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