The Family Stand

Have you ever had to move from your home to somewhere you know nobody and nothing about it? In the Novel Tangerine by Edward Bloor, the Fisher family had to do exactly that. As Paul Fisher struggles with changing schools and moving states, he feels like no one will like him, but soon he learns that change is a good thing and he begins to make new friends and gain self confidence. “I had to agree” Pg. 30. Paul didn’t have the confidence to say what he thought to his own mom. If Paul had the…

A Life No One Should Live The wheels of family discontent were set in motion before I was even born. They could have come screeching to a halt only if they knew where to draw the line. My dad mentioned bringing bean hash to a family potluck, a common family dish, but just the thought made my mom gag. She said she had been feeling strange and told my dad she thought she was pregnant. He didn’t believe her but at 4:30 in the morning, on his way out hunting, my mom took the test. She was pregnant…

Walter fails to realize his wife never supports him; he wants his family to think big entrepreneurial vision of the American Dream. He became very frustrated with his family, because his mother, his wife Ruth, his son Travis and his younger sister Beneatha, do not support to obtain his American Dream. Walter tell his wife about his plans for business and with the money…

was born into a family of poverty. Obama’s father, Barack Obama Sr., obtained a Harvard scholarship, and he left the family to go to college, leaving his wife and son. His wife remarried later to a man named Lolo Soetoro, and she and Obama moved to Indonesia to be with her new husband. While Obama lived in Indonesia, he experienced what it was like to be poor. This was one of the things that motivated him to become a better person. Unlike other presidents who came from wealthy families, Obama…

In the early evening on a fulbright Sunday, Pedro Jimenez and I were surrounded by patrons dining and laughing loudly while servers ran orders left and right like chickens with their head cut off. I was at the El Noa Noa taco stand in Wapato patiently awaiting his arrival. Jimenez strode up to the counter where I stood calmly, dragging his feet after working nine long hours at Roadrunners (Arco- gas station and deli mart) where we’re both employed. As he meandered towards the counter, his face…

Jeanette is the protagonist. She is one of now 4 siblings. As of now, Jeanette and her family are living in an old train depot in the middle of the desert. There are several floors, so this house is very large in comparison to the other houses or shacks that they have lived in. Since the place was abandoned, there isn't much furniture in the house and they use box crates and such as chairs. The 4 kids all sleep in cardboard boxes on the floor, and they claim to enjoy it because it's an adventure…

The case example am interested in discussing is on the Ortega family, the case outline discussed the challenges faced by Lupe Ortega 18 years old female, pregnant and still in school. Lupe family are one of the undocumented immigrant in USA and the situation of avoiding any legal issues as been part of the family way of surviving in the country, where the father is paid under the table and does not receive medical coverage through his employment. The decision to get an approve document of their…

In Langston Hughes’s poem titled “Harlem (A Dream Deferred)”, he asks an interesting question, “What happens to a dream deferred?” In Raisin in the Sun, Lorraine Hansberry uses the backdrop of discrimination on an African American family to examine the effect of dreams on people. Hansberry utilizes symbols such as Mama’s withering plant to represent how the family’s dreams are struggling to live while the members have conflicting ideas of the future. She also employs the life insurance money as…

The main characters from “Two Kinds” and “Everyday Use” are similar but also different in many ways. Both main characters want to make their mothers happy and are selfless. Ni kan and Maggie are both compared to other people and because they can’t reach certain expectations which causes people to look down on them. Their expectations that their mothers set are both extremely different. Ni kan and Maggie’s relationships with their mother are not alike, Maggie is closer to her mother than Ni kan.…

“Rikki-tikki-tavi” by Rudyard Kipling. The story takes place in a bungalow in the Segowlee cantonment in India. It depicts that sometimes, it is necessary to put yourself at risk to protect or defend others. Rikki-tikki puts himself at risk to save the family that he now lives with, showing that he is a brave character. He is also very curious and intelligent. “He looked at the cotton-wool, decided that it was not good to eat, ran all around the table, sat up and put his fur in order, scratched…