90 Miles Soto Analysis

Throughout this book, there are a lot of themes but one good one, in particular, is that true friends stick together until the end. There are a lot of examples of this because there were so many hardships where the kids stuck together. One of these examples is when Minho goes out into the storm to get Thomas up and saves his life. “Then someone was grabbing him, pulling him to his feet. Minho” (Dashner

In the novel, we read through Richard Blanco’s childhood in Miami. Growing up in a family of Cubans is a challenge. Through his stories, he searches for identity and belonging. Blanco shares experiences, in which he finds a sense of self. He discusses the importance of being who you are no matter what. Through knowledge and experience, Richard Blanco and I have experienced “Coming of Age”. When you are in the process of this transition, you may go through some conflicts or struggles. These conflicts will most probably teach you life lessons. You will gain wisdom throughout these years, which will make you more mature.

Parenting played a big role in shaping the two boys lives. Having a parental mentor is important because they assist and guide children to take the right decisions about their lives. The author had his two parents at the beginning of his life. Also, the author’s parents, especially his mother, tried to raise him in an effective way wanting him to know the right from wrong at an early age. “No mommy loves you, like I love you, she just wants you to do the right thing” (Moore 11). This quote was a live example of the author’s life with his parents. It reflected the different ways his parents used to teach him “the right thing.” Though his mother was upset from his action toward his sister, his father

It shows how important a family is, that should be valued and kept. Motivation takes place in the story, though the boy is faced with circumstances he never stops believing in the possibility of a good life and together with his grandmother believe that they can change the world for better. The love and comfort they give to one another seems to spur this belief.

This scene supports the theme “You will have to deal with life,” because Caballo will be mad a t Julian and everyone so then Caballo or the other kids will be mean to him. Julian has made it back to his brother and his mom but his dad was left behind and wasn’t able to make it back to the family. So then Julian won’t have a dad for a while and he was an architect so he makes a lot of money, so then their family will need to find a way to make money (276-277).

In the reading it talks about the mother's thoughts about his schooling choices in New York. Most people would say if they went through it, it's okay for their kids. However Joy stepped up and knew that the New York public schools were extremely sketchy and unsafe for her son and rather work harder and have her kids go to a private school. His mother also would not let the sadness of their father's death interrupt the time she had them. She would put on a happy face and encourage her kids to take advantage of all the opportunities there are out there. In the reading it shows Wes Moore’s realization of the amount of effort his mother put in to make the family happy,“But no matter how much the world around us seemed ready to crumble, my mother was determined to see us though it.(47)”

They’re always about something bad happening” (McCarthy 269). So by this statement, we know that the boy while empathetic, still feels negative emotions for himself. We feel as if the boy is what keeps the book going, the fire; he is the only one who can and will keep the story going because he is seen as something greater than all. After the father dies, we see that the boy finds a group of wanderers and joins them.

The family is the closest, most stable element in the boys life. LaJoe tries hard to make sure the boys are surrounded with positive influences so that they will grow up secure. This

Although the book’s titular character is Oscar de Leon, he shares chapters with his sister, his mother, his college roommate, Yunior (revealed to be the book’s narrator), and his mother’s parents, the Cabrals. By representing a family with different personalities—Oscar is overweight, and nerdy while Lola is powerful and independent, for example—Díaz creates a microcosm for all Dominican immigrants. Each chapter (and character) in the past is melded into the story in the present, and in this way, the momentum and excitement is never lost until the very last

In his first novel, the story takes place in an under privileged and impoverished neighborhood of East Harlem New York. The main character, Julio Mercado who is called by his nickname “chino” is an Ecuadorian/Puerto Rican husband and father to be who is working part time at a local grocery store while attending community college. He dreams of somehow making something of himself, owning a home and escaping the grasp of the neighborhood and hardships associated with it. Throughout the novel Chino struggles with where his loyalty should lie, with his wife and unborn child or with the streets he had grown up in and his friend “Sapo” who was his friend since childhood. He in some way feels guilty about dreaming of getting out of El Barrio and making a better life for himself and his family because everything he loved and learned in his life came from there. His best friend Sapo who he loved and respected was a high school dropout who turned out to be a drug dealing street hustler who aligned himself with who Chino referred to as the slumlord of the neighborhood, Willie Bodega. Sapo introduces Chino to Bodega, who has a love interest in Chino’s wife Blanca’s Aunt Vera. He wonders if he could upgrade his lifestyle

Living in a falling apart house, the family rarely has electricity and they have no running water or heat. Struck by a hard reality, the older children realize the only way to achieve a stable life is to move away from their parents. They begin saving as much money as they can until eventually the oldest child, Lori, moves to New York City. She finds a job and the children try to save more money so they can all eventually move to the city. Ultimately, all of the kids are together again in New York City and life is good.

Some things you just have to keep to yourself or pass to let the day go by with you feeling happy in knowing you did the right thing. In Gary Soto’s short story, Seventh Grade, there was a teacher named Mr. Bueller who did not want to say anything because he knew it would have ruined the chance of them becoming a couple. In Gary Soto’s poem, Oranges, there was cashier who accepts the payment even though it wasn’t enough, but she knew it was for a special someone. These characters are alike because they both were lenient because they knew they liked each other. One line from Oranges that support my claim, “When I looked up,/ The lady’s eye met mine,/ And held them, knowing/ Very well it was all/About.” This line supports my claim because she

At first, the parents had an idealized view of how their life would be with the children because they had been in the process of adopting for a very long time. However, when they started their lives together they learned that is was

Continuing to read this story I found more situations relatable. The argument between the mother and the children made me think of my mother and I fighting. We disagreed a great deal, but we always resolve our conflict. At the end of the day, she is my mother and I am her daughter, and family sticks together. The mother hiked with no pants, and unknowingly loses one of her loafers in the snow. The children assisted her with the search for it, but ended up creating her a shoe from their hats and scarfs. The existing love the children shared for their mother conqured the dismay they previously felt for her. That’s how it was for my mother and me. The love was not always visible but it was still present.

Family is important to live a happy, healthy life. A poor, black family, the Youngers, live together in a small house in Chicago in the 1950s. Their main focus is not getting money, but staying together and loving each other. Lena, Walter's mother, is the head of the family and live out the moral of the importance of family. Throughout A Raisin in the Sun, Lena attempts to bring her plant back to life, which can be a symbol of the family struggling.