Analysis of The Dreamer
Everyone struggles at one point and time in their life. What we do during that time of strife and struggle defines who we will become later. Those who embrace the change and hardship, while finding a way to make it through, will become stronger in the end. Although the perseverance and dream of a young girl, to become a nurse, never came to fruition, her struggles and sacrifices enabled her to move out of a Third World country. Even if in the end the final dream is not wholly fulfilled, with strength, determination, and sacrifice, making a better life for oneself is achievable.
In The Dreamer, Diaz writes about his mother’s rough childhood in a poor Third World country, before moving to the United States. “See her in New Jersey, in the house with the squirrels in the back …” This allows the reader to know that the young girl in the story makes it out of her impoverished circumstances. “…but she grew up one of those poor Third World – Country girls. The …show more content…
“Anytime my mother was caught near the schoolhouse, my grandmother gave her a beating. And not the beatings of The First World, but the beatings of the Third – Which you do not so easily shake off” (Diaz 129). In today’s society these beatings would be considered abuse. To this young girl, taking the beatings were worth continuing with her education, so she continued to go even though she knew the consequences. “And when she tried to drag my mother up to the hills, the police put her in handcuffs, and that was that” (Diaz 130). The girl went to the school looking for help, so that they would step in and make her mother allow her to attend school. Thankfully the teacher at the time took her seriously and involved the police (Diaz 129). The lengths that the young girl went through to get what she desired shows her strength and resolve to make her life
Everyone struggles at one point and time in their life. What we do during that time of strife and struggle defines who we will become later. Those who embrace the change and hardship, while finding a way to make it through, will become stronger in the end. Although the perseverance and dream of a young girl, to become a nurse, never came to fruition, her struggles and sacrifices enabled her to move out of a Third World country. Even if in the end the final dream is not wholly fulfilled, with strength, determination, and sacrifice, making a better life for oneself is achievable.
In The Dreamer, Diaz writes about his mother’s rough childhood in a poor Third World country, before moving to the United States. “See her in New Jersey, in the house with the squirrels in the back …” This allows the reader to know that the young girl in the story makes it out of her impoverished circumstances. “…but she grew up one of those poor Third World – Country girls. The …show more content…
“Anytime my mother was caught near the schoolhouse, my grandmother gave her a beating. And not the beatings of The First World, but the beatings of the Third – Which you do not so easily shake off” (Diaz 129). In today’s society these beatings would be considered abuse. To this young girl, taking the beatings were worth continuing with her education, so she continued to go even though she knew the consequences. “And when she tried to drag my mother up to the hills, the police put her in handcuffs, and that was that” (Diaz 130). The girl went to the school looking for help, so that they would step in and make her mother allow her to attend school. Thankfully the teacher at the time took her seriously and involved the police (Diaz 129). The lengths that the young girl went through to get what she desired shows her strength and resolve to make her life