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In Aguantando, Yunior and his brother Rafa grow up without a father. Yunior always dreams of his father coming home and loves him, despite the fact that this was the very man that abandoned him at such a young age. The few times that his father said that he was returning home, and didn’t, were the most crushing moments in Yunior’s life.
When reading this story, Yunior’s actions resonated with me and I stepped into his perspective. As I evaluate Yunior’s situation, I see that his father acted as a superhero figure for him. His father represented hope and his return would result in his family leaving poverty. It is easy for Yunior to alienate his other family members and focus all of his attention on fantasizing his father’s return. …show more content…
The speaker in the story is an adult figure, most likely a parent, in the life of the addressee, who is a child. I picture the speaker as not only a parent, but as societal norms as well. While the child in this story is a girl who receives extensive and stereotypical calls for labor and changing of personality, I can still empathize with her situation, despite the fact that I am not female.
Throughout my life– especially in recent times– I have dealt with parents who are very hard on me. In addition to this, I, like many other teenagers, are subjected to pressures to do certain things and act certain ways on a daily basis. Both of these things act as adult figures that control your actions. Both of these things diminish the power you have over your own life. Even a harmless question or opinion can be met with a harsh response. I have experienced this just as Jamaica did at the end of the story. Sometimes it can be really hard to deal with, especially when I believe that these regulations aren’t in my best interest, but I think that I deal with them successfully most of the
In Aguantando, Yunior and his brother Rafa grow up without a father. Yunior always dreams of his father coming home and loves him, despite the fact that this was the very man that abandoned him at such a young age. The few times that his father said that he was returning home, and didn’t, were the most crushing moments in Yunior’s life.
When reading this story, Yunior’s actions resonated with me and I stepped into his perspective. As I evaluate Yunior’s situation, I see that his father acted as a superhero figure for him. His father represented hope and his return would result in his family leaving poverty. It is easy for Yunior to alienate his other family members and focus all of his attention on fantasizing his father’s return. …show more content…
The speaker in the story is an adult figure, most likely a parent, in the life of the addressee, who is a child. I picture the speaker as not only a parent, but as societal norms as well. While the child in this story is a girl who receives extensive and stereotypical calls for labor and changing of personality, I can still empathize with her situation, despite the fact that I am not female.
Throughout my life– especially in recent times– I have dealt with parents who are very hard on me. In addition to this, I, like many other teenagers, are subjected to pressures to do certain things and act certain ways on a daily basis. Both of these things act as adult figures that control your actions. Both of these things diminish the power you have over your own life. Even a harmless question or opinion can be met with a harsh response. I have experienced this just as Jamaica did at the end of the story. Sometimes it can be really hard to deal with, especially when I believe that these regulations aren’t in my best interest, but I think that I deal with them successfully most of the