Tortilla Sun

In the passages from Confetti Girl and Tortilla Sun, the narrators have points of view different from those of their parents. These differences in points of view created tension in both stories causing a disagreement. In Confetti Girl, The child wanted to be her dad’s focus however in return her dad wanted his book and English vocabulary to be his daughter's focus. In the Tortilla Sun, the child didn’t want her mother to have to go to Costa Rica since she knew that she was going to have to spend the summer with her ain’t house. Which is what the child perceives as a bad idea. Yet on the mother's view of the situation, she feels as though good things will come out go this and that this is better for everyone. These conflicts cause the two …show more content…
The opposing side to her thoughts, her mother. As the mother is trying to explain that her that this job movement that she had to make for her job was for the greater good and that it would help them out. For example, as, the mother said, “I’ll be home at the end of July. And after this, I can finally graduate. Our lives will change then.” In the mother's eyes, she is thinking about the life her and her child would have and that by her making this small two-month move it would better their lives. She is doing what every other human is presumed to do, in the guidelines of human nature. Which say that a mother is to protect and provide for her children and/or child (subtracting thought who don’t of course). In the mother’s eyes, she is doing what is necessary just like the quote, “There have to be a few strategic losses to win the war.” In this situation, the war is deciding whether or not they have a good life and the loss is the summer the mother could have with her child. With the mother having to go out of state for her job, she need’s to provide a stable space for her child to be under the care and that is where Mexico and the aunt come in. While yes the mother and aunt do have differences in thoughts, she knows that its the right thing to do. The mother tries to justify her response by saying that, “She’s so excited to have you and..” Referring to the aunt as the She. In the mother’s eyes of the …show more content…
The common tension was the child heading up to their rooms feeling a tad words then they already did at the beginning of the story. In both the child wanted more attention from the parent to proceed, meaning that one didn’t want her mother to go, but to stay with her. While the other wanted her father to pay more attention. Both parent’s in the situation wanted to do what was right for the child. Even if the child thought that the parent thought it was, “Opportunity? For me? Or for