Landing From The Sky Analysis

In the article Landing From the Sky by Adrian Nicole LeBlanc, published by The New Yorker magazine, contends the story of Jessica, a troubled girl who is also a single mom and her journey through life the unfortunate events that befall during the ten years that are narrated in the article, the symbolism in this article is varied and explicit, the story develops in Bronx, New York where gangs are everywhere and poverty surrounds the main character and her family, Landing From the Sky is an article that narrates a crude reality in Jessica’s life, this article represents the background of a latin-american family who struggles with drugs and money, besides the psychological and physical pain that the characters are going through an example is Jessica …show more content…
“George pulled up in a car that was like the ocean,” It was a graphite Mercedes-Benz, and he saluted Lourdes through the sunroof. He was so handsome in his leather trench coat—with dark hair, a goatee, smooth skin, dark-brown eyes. Suddenly, Lourdes “remembered” that she couldn’t babysit. (Le Blanc) this simile is to make the reader depicture George’s blue car, and its movement, the author compres George’s car with the ocean which also can represent the endless possibilities that Lourdes and Jessica thought George would give to the family because of his looks and the car that he used to drive. The author uses metaphors to describe the economical status of Jessica’s family and how needy of supplies they were when George first went to their house and noticed that they family did not have enough food for all the people that were living in the house, so he decides to send his employees to get the supplies to fill Lourdes’ cupboard, “Lourdes sobbed as each grocery bag was carried beneath the lucky horseshoe stuck above her door.” (LeBlanc), the author depicts the family situation as something unsteady and that it was odd for them to have enough to eat. LeBlanc uses language such as antithesis to depict Lourdes character as mysterious and astute, the author achieves the goal of depicting Lourdes not because of her background but …show more content…
Jessica abandoned her children in order to move with George because she felt protected by him and loved for the very first time everything went to waste when George reached his goal and started getting tired of Jessica, George as well is a character that represents the sad tone in the story, he is empty and he does not care about anyone but himself besides he is a very violent person who started mistreating her and abusing her but she would not do anything about it because she loved him so very much, so she decided to take the blame, which was also her plan for her complicity with