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Bruno Melofiro Prof. La Puma Due 2/14/13 ENG1121 Tu-Th 11:30 3. Write an essay arguing that “The Storm” is (or is not) immoral, or (a different thing) amoral. Kate Chopin’s story “The Storm” was written in 1989. However, this story was surely very much ahead of its time, as Chopin never found a publisher for it during her lifetime due to the immoral and graphic content of it. “The Storm” was not published until 1969, sixty-five years after her death. Although in current times stories such as these are common and hardly controversial, in the late 1800s themes of adultery and sex were largely frowned upon and no respectable magazine would ever dare publish such work. As time progresses, so do our tolerance for such themes and stories, but that does not mean that “The Storm” is seen as a moral story by any means, adultery and lying are still actions that are wrong and unacceptable, and although they can surely be talked about freely, they should not be celebrated. At the beginning of the story, Bobinot is with Bibi at Freidheimer’s store, where Bobinot decides to take shelter with his son until the storm passes, since it is no more than an obstruction for him. While they patiently wait, Bobinot purchases a can of shrimp, which his wife Calixta is very fond of. This shows Bobinot as a diligent and loving husband who is thinking about his wife’s needs and wants. Calixta, who at first is depicted as a worrisome and hardworking housewife, later decides…

For decades, Immigrants traveled to the United States for various personal motivations. These Immigrants voyaged with aspirations of finding a better quality of life; others are refugees, fleeing from civil turmoil. In “Negocios,” Ramon- an immigrant from the Dominican Republic- moved to Miami with dreams of fortune and the vision of bringing his family to the states. Ramon quickly became subject to adversity, having all of his dreams crushed before his eyes, he needed to find a new way to…

In Mona in the Promised Land, by Gish Jen, Mona Chang’s parents immigrate from China. In doing so, Mona, a teenager, is forced to assimilate to American culture. Mona’s friends, Barbara Gugelstein, helps her navigate through American culture; however, Mona’s parents help her hold on to her own culture. On the other hand, Ramón de las Casas, or Papi, in Negocios, by Junot Díaz, comes to America by himself, struggling to look for a stable home and job, having no one to look up to. Ramón and Mona…

believe that is the most importantly theme is how people want to achieve the American dream. The narrator tells a story of his point of view on the struggle of not having a father figure in his life and the challenges he went through. As reading the book it was surprising that the narrator had ended the book by telling the story on his father journey on achieving the American dream. As in today many people from all over the world are in the same situation that the best way to improve their lives…

solidifying his image as an isolated “loser with a capital L” in the minds of the characters and readers. Spanish is the native language of the protagonists and consequently appears constantly in both texts. Spanish is used by Diaz to express anything from the extremities of emotion, to everyday colloquialisms. Furthermore, Spanish is essential to how the characters relate to one another, for example in both texts; the protagonists address their parents as “mami” and “papi”. This is not only a…

This prison-like feeling is juxtaposed to how the characters would want their homes to feel, as is shown by the escape from the prisons that the characters wish they had. When Papi “broke out” of their home in “Negocios,” the metaphor connects us to a prisoner escaping, and that the house is a prison to Papi as he is trapped there. However, his ‘break-out’ shows that he does not want the house to be a prison, juxtaposing his desires of freedom with the entrapment he feels in his house. His…

Yunior causing him to be resentful to his own Father and ultimately Ramón is not meeting any fatherly expectations for Yunior. In the same chapter When Yunior met a Puerto Rican woman he said "The two of them went upstairs and I was too scared of what was happening to poke around” (36). This presents the dishonest side of Ramón because not only is he a bad father figure he is not an honest husband because he has been sleeping with a Puerto Rican girl in a hotel while Yunior was downstairs. In…

immigrants in the United States suffers from adversities socialy and culturally, we will do this by showing a fictitious but plausible literary example based on the experience of life. In the brief and wonderful Life of Oscar Wao. -Yunior, the narrator of Diaz and alter ego, uses the footnotes to give a personal overview of the larger picture of politics in the Dominican Republic and the United States, which leads to migration. But the politic situation of the DR . is just one of the many…

nothing was out of the ordinary” (39). He then goes on to mention that they never told their mother, which could be explained by the sheer fear of their father or the simple fact that it was not too uncommon for men to cheat on their wives. The fact that Papi brings his children to interact with his mistress reiterates the lack of respect that Papi had for their mother. Rafa and Yunior were forced to accept their father’s infidelity because they had no voice when around Papi due to him being…

wanted to show the lens of how that culture behaved and how it perceived the image of America. When Yunior and Rafa confront Ysrael while flying his kite Rafa says, ”Where did you get that? I asked. Nuevo York, he said, From my father. No shit! Our father’s there too! I shouted” (16). With both these kids having their fathers in New York working, trying to create a better life, and sending them things like the kite Ysreal is flying and where he’ll have his upcoming surgery or for Yunior and Rafa…