“ Ultima comes to stay with us the summer I am almost seven”. “When she comes the beauty of the llano unfolds before my eyes, and the gurgling waters of the river sang the hum of the turning earth”. Ultima brings her owl along with her, they are a package deal. Ultima slips easily into the Marez family’s daily life. Ultima and her owl gradually change the community’s lives one incident at a time.…
The book I read was called The Awakening. Throughout the book interesting things happened. The book is about a young woman named Edna Pontellier. She has a husband and two little boys. As the book progresses Mrs. Pontellier strays away from her husband.…
The short story Stranger Danger starts off with Isabelle Mccoy is heading to her car after christmas shopping. She is approached by a stranger who offers to help her with her bags. Isabelle is naive and gladly accepts the stranger's help. Once the bags are loaded into her car the stranger disappears and Isabelle gets into her car and quickly finds that the stranger was already in the car and he proceeds to beat her head against the steering wheel. Upon waking up Isabelle soon discovers that she is trapped in a dim lit basement and goes days without human interaction.…
On page 12, readers are introduced to the exposition of the plot. Lefty Mendieta opens the door to Bruno’s house in the neighborhood of Guadalupe. A spicy aroma evokes his senses and is met with Bruno’s body on twisted sheets. Dr. Montano then observes that Bruno has been dead for five to seven hours (13). The searching is interrupted by Briseno who tells them that Engineer Canizales, Bruno’s father, wants to quickly wrap up the case with ballistics and forensics, consider it natural causes, and decline the autopsy.…
A bilingual student often has a greater advantage over understanding a text. An English and Spanish speaking, reader has a large advantage in understanding Latin American literature and its American translation. Like Water for Chocolate is a popular Latin American novel, known for it use of magical realism and its empowerment of women. As a bilingual reader, I often have the privilege to read a text in its original Spanish version. Many times I also have the privilege to look into both versions of a text.…
Symbolism Bless Me, Ultima by Anaya explains the life of a young Mexican-American boy named Antonio Marez. Who lives in New Mexico during the mid-1940. The novel opens up with Ultima, a curandera or a healer who comes to live with Antonia and his family for the last years of her life. As the story progresses, we see the difficulties that Antonio has to go through and how he matures. This novel contains elements of the types of different stories such as drama, fantasy,and nonfiction.…
The theme of the book Incantation, by Alice Hoffman, could be the idea that people in life, even the ones closest to you, are not always what they seem. The first time this theme is seen on page 22, “When my grandmother fastened them around my throat, I didn’t know what to say. I wasn’t used to her kindness.” This showed Estrella that her grandmother isn’t just someone who can never be pleased and is cold-hearted she is someone who is kind and loving even his the most unusual ways. Estrella is now just beginning to realize that people aren’t as they seem on the outside or what you think you know about the inside.…
The novel Like Water for Chocolate takes place on a ranch in Mexico during the Mexican Revolution during 1910-1917. The book contains many characters with many characteristics. Tita, the main character, is a young eighteen year old female that lives with her mother, Mama Elena, on their ranch. Tita is the youngest daughter in her family. She has two sisters, Rosaura and Gertrudis.…
It soon comes to Lucrecia’s attention that her new stepson, FONCHITO (10), is sexually attracted to her. The maid, JUSTINIANA, informs Lucrecia that he’s been spying on her and he wants to touch and kiss her. Lucrecia struggles to ignore his advances and turns a cold shoulder to him. Her plan fails, when Fonchito threatens to kill himself.…
Acceptance, freedom, love, and lust, these conflicts arise in The Awakening by Kate Chopin as Edna Pontellier struggles with her internal conflicts. Chopin uses foils to demonstrate Edna’s evolution in the novel. In a time where women are expected to be subordinate, Edna defies the standards and her oppressive husband. Two polar characters, Adèle Ratignolle and Mademoiselle Reisz, exemplify compliance and individualism. These women act as foils and provide references to the reader in understanding Edna’s awakening of herself and society.…
Equality is something that is perpetually strived for, but seldom achieved. In the novella The House On Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros, the protagonist, Esperanza, does not want to continue the cycle of inequality. Throughout the story, Esperanza continually sees women in her life treated like objects in a society that values women for their looks, and not for what is on the inside. In the thread of gender roles, a theme that is developed is that men do not treat women as their equals, but instead as something that can be possessed and dominated. This theme is developed throughout the stories Esperanza tells about her great-grandmother’s resentment of being a married woman, Rafaela’s lack of freedom in her marriage, and the troubles Minerva…
The Story “The Stolen Party” by Liliana Hecker demonstrates the dominant conflict of Person vs. Person by showcasing the various problems/people Rosaura had to go through. Rosaura goes through numerous conflicts during the story which deal with Person vs. Person the first conflict is Rosaura and Herminia, Rosaura’s mother, arguing over the party Rosaura desperately wanted to go to, second conflict is the discussion between Rosaura and Luciana’s Cousin and lastly Rosaura and Senora Ines when Rosaura is leaving the party. Rosaura wanted to go to Luciana’s party but her mother was not allowing Rosaura to go because Luciana was the daughter of Rosaura’s mother’s boss and Rosaura’s mother refused the fact that Rosaura was Luciana’s friend but instead…
A story holds many similarities to a snowflake. All snowflakes are composed of exactly the same material, but when scrutinized closely, no two are the same. The same can be said about two narratives which may contain the same events but the meaning can change when recounted by different narrators. The difference in narratives can be observed in the novel and film adaptation of Me and You written by Niccolò Ammaniti 's and directed by Bernardo Bertolucci. All stories contain a mixture of constituent and supplementary events.…
Father Cayetano Alcino del Espirito Santo Delaura y Escudero was quite intense, he had deep black hair with a white streak at his forehead, good character, quick intelligence, and good disposition. In all of his thirty six he was always aware of his awkwardness with women. Father Cayetano was put in charge of Sierva Maria’s exorcism, but he falls madly in love with her. He is stripped of all of his titles and sent to work in a hospital but he still sneaks into the cloistered compound to visit Sierva through a secret passage long forgotten by the Abbess. He and Sierva speak of the life they will have together once she is freed, but Cayetano never tries to take matters into his own hands until it is too late.…
The characters in the play Othello by Shakespeare depict different attributes from revenge to love. The behavior of Lago is the subject of analysis of the essay. Lago’s attitude towards women and Othello is appalling. He feels an obligation to serve Othello while also accusing him for having an affair with his wife. In Act one, scene three, Lago believes that Othello has slept with his wife.…