Mama and papa

are, we need to find that out first, and maybe think about trying to get home." I looked down at the ground knowing he was right. He then took me and we stumbled upon this happy looking family. The father looked very tired, he almost reminded me of Papa. The mother didn't look tired at all she actually look very happy. They had four kids, three of them we're boys and the youngest looking one was a girl. The oldest looked about 17, the second oldest looked around 14, the next one looked 12 and…

In the House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros, many of the characters struggle to find their place in society. Some of them choose to work hard to change their situation and what they have. Others accept their fate and try to make the best of what they have. However, all of them, in some way, have their own goals and dreams to accomplish. Through the theme of dreaming, Cisneros reveals the idea that success is the result of hard work, despite the challenges put on by society. Throughout the…

because he kept watching what I would do. He probably thought I was upset too and I was mad, how could there be so much work put into that it just vanishes it dies. My back is getting bad again I don't want to tell anybody cause I know Francisco and mama would worry about me to much. Fransisco is just like me he worries a lot i know this because he's been working for hours after school so we wont fall back in debt. I feel bad for my family i feel that I am the man of the house so why do my…

memoir as a theme. One morning Gerda and her parents were sitting as the table. “Then all of a sudden Papa looked up and asked Mama where my skiing shoes were. ‘Why?’ I asked, baffled. ‘I want you to wear them tomorrow when you go to Wadowitz. But Papa, skiing shoes in June?’ He said steadily: ‘I want you to wear them tomorrow. Yes, Papa, I will,’ I said in a small voice. I wonder why Papa insisted; how could he possibly have known? Those shoes played a vital part in saving my life,”…

living in discontol. Love, conflict and depression build tension in the characters creating isolation. Brick and Maggie are a young married couple visiting the plantation home of Big Papa and Big Mama, Brick’s parents. Also present, are Brick’s brother, Gooper, and in sister-in-law, Mae. All of the family, except Big Mama, know about Big Papa’s illness, and are so selfish they only care about the remains of his plantation and wealth. Brick is a man characterized by his name, a brick. He is a…

In the book Tangerine, Victor affects Paul very much as they spend more and more time with each other. It starts out with Paul trying out for the soccer team at Tangerine Middle School. Paul has just caught a ball heading for the goal: “Suddenly, wham! A foot came slicing in front of my face, driving the ball out of my hands and into the goal. [...] ‘You taking a nap, Fisherman?’” (Bloor 110). That leaves Paul feeling like Victor was a jerk who he needs to learn how to get around. Then it…

teased at school because of his accent and the fact that he is an immigrant. When Nurzhan grew angry, he got into a fight with another boy; requiring him to be suspended from school for two days. This affects Maya since she now has to translate for her Papa causing her to miss…

People have always wondered about the school on The Hill of the Blue Moon. No human would dare ever set foot on the road that leads to the school. People of the village of Moonlight would see a black carriage pass into town and go up the hill. They would see a man with skin white as snow and eyes as red as blood and if you saw his whole face you would see that he has a black eye patch on his right eye. His hair was also white it would be in a long braid that is draped over his left shoulder. He…

Mildred D. Taylor’s Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, is a novel set in October of 1933 during the era of the Great Depression. The story focuses around the Logan family and their experiences as one of the many black families living in Mississippi, which was considered as one of the Confederate states in that time. It was told in Cassie Logan’s point-of-view, who was 9 years old and the only daughter of the family. The Logan Family first finds out about a burning of an African American man by a…

and Fritz first came up with the idea to dig underneath the Berlin wall Mama was completely against the idea. She thought that the idea was too dangerous for her children to go through and her kids would be risking their lives in this action. “Papa might not want us to dig, and Mama would never give us permission, but it doesn’t matter anymore. We’re going to build that tunnel” (Nielsen 122). This proves that Fritz knows that Mama will never give them permission to build the tunnel. They know…