Tortilla

The “American Dream” by Angela M. Balcita and The Tortilla Curtain by T. C. Boyle are both pieces based on the idea of the “American Dream.” They may tell different stories although both share an amount of similarities in experiences. Both pieces have a dream, make adjustments to a new life, and have unfortunate circumstances. In the beginning of each piece, Boyle and Balcita express what they both dream of having in America. Balcita and her family, in the “American Dream," are eligible people…

They are being deprived of their basic human rights and treated unfairly in a country that guarantees equal opportunity. The immigrants of America are victimized by more than just the self proclaimed ignorance of the American people. In the book The Tortilla Curtain, the author T.C Boyle describes racial discrimination towards immigrants through the perspective of the characters, the use of…

In Confetti Girl and Tortilla Sun, both the children and parents are faced with a situation causing tension due to different points of view because both girls want something that is contrary to their parents plans or ideas. In Confetti Girl, the girl sees her dad as caring more for his books and vocabulary than her. However, the father believes that he is helping her with her school work as well as flooding his interests into her. On page five, in paragraph twenty-six, the text states the girl…

The ending of this story really left me on my toes. Throughout the story we see the views Delaney has on immigration change. At the beginning he seems to be in favor of immigration. He believes that everyone should have the chance to live life. As the novel moves along, Delaney has some conflicts with Mexicans that perhaps made him have a change in thought. He went from having a complete left view to a far right view. Once he hit Candido with his car his views began to change tremendously. All…

opinion and point of view create tension in both stories. This develops a conflict in both stories as well. In the passage from Confetti Girl, the narrator's opinion that her father may say that she's important, but she's not, and in the passage from Tortilla Sun, the narrator's opinion that her mother only cares about what her mother thinks and not about what the narrator thinks is what creates tension in both stories. In the passage from Confetti Girl the narrator thinks that while her…

a child can feel belittled by lack of control, and the guardian could feel misunderstood. In the passages from Confetti Girl and Tortilla Sun, the narrators have points of view contradictory to that of their parents. The conflict spawns tension between characters, and makes the tone of the story strenuous and constricted. In the excerpt from Confetti Girl and Tortilla Sun, the divergence in perspective adds strain to both stories, because of the absence of resolution in the case. In the text…

Have you ever fought with your parents because they do not have the same point of view on a topic? In the short stories “Confetti Girl” by Diana López and “Tortilla Sun” by Jennifer Cervantes the parent get into arguments and show resentment towards each other because of the actions they make. In the first story, the characters want to connect however the father tries to talk about his interest only and the daughter felt irrelevant compared to his books and vocabulary. Next, in the second…

The first chosen scene fades into a close up view of the back of Amy Dunne’s head. The setting is the Dunne’s bedroom, giving a sense of intimacy. Nick Dunne’s voice is heard before any visuals are shown. He voices his desire to crack open his wife’s skull and unspool her brains, all the while he is presently caressing her head. He ponders on the “primal questions of any marriage”: What is she thinking, how is she feeling and what are they doing to each other. Amy Dunne then shifts her head to…

a lot of meat, beans, pepper and corn tortillas to make traditional TEX-MEX food. TEX-MEX food is loved by the people in Texas and visitors from all over the world. The TEX-MEX food in TEX-MEX Home’s is very traditional. The customer think highly of the food in this restaurant. In many kinds of dishes, corn tortillas is the most characteristic one at TEX-MEX’s Home. The way to make corn tortillas is similar to the spring rolls in China. But the corn tortillas is more chewy than spring roll…

traditional tortillas and how this food influences our culture and helps us to continue. When Burciaga was growing up, the tortilla was part of his daily life. He was always with his mother in the Mercado of Ciudad Juarez. He saw the tortilla factory and the whole production of tortillas that came out every day. Burciaga was not impressed about all the tortillas that the factory made, because he said “Watching them at work convinced me that the most handsome and deliciosas tortillas are…