Marigolds

afflicted by culture, but always remains the same at the core and that is to be polite, and understand beyond yourself. These two things are what drive almost every interaction and determine if you have or have not left childhood behind. For example, in Marigolds, Lizabeth doesn't see past her selfish needs and acts foolishly to avoid her problems. This is what categorizes someone's maturity. Once she “understands beyond herself” and is “polite” in the way that she deals with dilemmas, she…

Skull Mask become a part of Day of the dead because during the Aztecs and other Meso-Americans reign they kept skulls as trophies and flaunted them during ceremonies. The skulls then represented death and reincarnation. The reincarnation part of these ceremonies was the most important of the ceremony. Aztecs and other Meso-American cultures believed their beloved relatives came back from the dead during the monthlong ritual. In celebrations today the skull mask are called calacus. This…

Mexicans, unlike other North Americans, accept and celebrate death as a part of life. For this holiday, the home altar, or ofrenda, lovingly celebrates the dead. In the Lopez home, a trail of marigold petals and the rich smell of incense led us from the front door to the altar. The bright orange marigold blooms, the flowers of the dead, also trimmed a card table overflowing with everything the dead would need to take up their lives again. For Manuel’s Uncle Angel there was…

I stand here ironing was written by Tillie Lerner Olsen and published in 1961. Do you know why the mother stand here and iron? Do you know what happened during ironing? In the perspective of Emily’s mother, the author will tell a story which happened in the Great Depression and recorded upbringing of her firstborn daughter Emily, from a beautiful baby to a cynicism and crooked teen. Emily was born in Great Depression and her father left before she was one year old because he couldn’t stand the…

Israel Becerra 12/20/17 Period 4 The Bluest eye/ The Color Purple Comparison My Comparison in the bluest eye and the color purple is going to be about pecola and celie having many similaires in their lives .Also that how both are born in black communities and both are humiliated by the society and then the similarities in the book the bluest eye and the movie the color purple. In the beginning they are raped by their fathers and both become…

The Danger of Paranoia The poem “Woodchucks”, by Maxine Kumin includes a speaker that kills because of paranoia. The speaker kills the woodchucks because he/she believes that the woodchucks deliberately try to hurt him/her by attacking his/her garden. The speaker creates the tone of paranoia that the woodchucks fight against him/her and uses that paranoia as justification to become a killer. The poet uses the speaker’s tone to show the danger of a person who can change quickly into an immoral…

how she knew what she had to do, and drove across the border where she bought dozens of small tin offerings, bunches of marigolds, a small box of red cinnamon-scented candles, and small blank 45’s (a small record). She then described sowing the Milagros on the inside lining of the cover of the casket, then described creating a halo effect around the ‘corpse’ using the marigold, hoping the spirit could enjoy the smell of the flowers, and then how she arranged the candles in a row in front of the…

The Internalisation of Ugliness Postcolonial criticism aims to teach us to read ourselves, revealing our psychological ‘inheritance’ of racial discrimination; the product of a society in which we are constantly subjected to images of whiteness. It addresses the subconscious influence of the media in shaping us to be racist, and indoctrinating victims of racism with the belief that whiteness is the paragon of beauty. Toni Morrison’s ‘The Bluest Eye’ and Alice Walker’s ‘The Colour Purple’ reveal…

Morrison’s novel shows that Pecola’s desire for blue eyes is a demonstration of a community’s blind conviction of white’s definition of beauty: You looked at them and wondered why they were so ugly; you looked closely and could not find the source. Then you realized it came from conviction, their conviction. It was as though some mysterious all-knowing master had given each one a cloak of ugliness to were, and they had each accepted it without question. (28) The black community takes it for…

Could you find comfort in spending 24 hours with the spirit of your deceased loved one? Dia de los Muertos, also known as “The Day of the Dead” is a Mexican holiday in which family and friends gather together to remember the lives of their loved ones who have passed away. They also use this holiday to help support the spiritual journey their loved ones are taking. Many people from all religious and ethnic backgrounds celebrate Dia de los Muertos. It has its roots in pre-columbian cultures and…