A Master Of Deception By Michael Arrives

Luz, the neighbor of Nelson’s family, in Daniel Alarcon’s “Second Lives,” had endured a change in personality over the years. She and her husband, Alejandro, were described as “the rare neighborhood couple with no kids, possessing no concept of the kinds of things children might like” (68). She loved to entertain the neighbor boys, Francisco and Nelson, but all of that changed when her husband left her for a woman ten years her senior. She hid herself away in her house out of shame, and was embarrassed to speak to any of the other neighbors. To the reader, she might seem like a paranoid and untrusting older lady, but upon further analysis, it is clear that Luz’s changing personality is the product of the circumstances of her past.

So naturally Michaelis tried to find out what had happened, but Wilson wouldn’t say a word — instead he began to throw suspicious look at his visitor and ask himself what he’d been doing at certain times on certain days of the week. Just as the latter was getting restless, some workers came past heading to the door for his restaurant, and Michaelis approach the chance to get away, intending to return later. But he never did. He supposed he forgot to, that’s all. When he gets outside again, a little later after seven o’clock, he was remembered of the conversation because he heard Mrs. Wilson’s voice, loud and clear coming down-stairs in the garage.

When his teacher Ms. Atwood asks Anthony whether he is tired or not, he doesn’t say anything because he was full of thoughts in his mind with worrying about his new school life. The teacher asks him again, “Excuse me?”. Anthony replies “I mean, I’m okay. I’m not tired” (56). Although she inquired him with a polite smile, he didn’t tell what the actual

The author creates a mood of being irritating by her “…awful grandmother…” and brothers “…Alfredito and Enrique…” who are occupied playing outside as “… a B-Fifty-two bomber…” [paragraph 5] and her grandmother with a “… long, long list of relatives … names of the dead and the living into one long prayer…” [paragraph 10]. Including, the imagery provided in the short story described the character’s actions by watching her grandmother pray while she counts her grandmother’s mustache hairs. Later, an unknown lady and man start talking to her brother asking if she could take a picture, than judging by their looks, they assume they do not speak English but only

Michael Kingston’s “Creating a Criminal” Discuss a new law known as Section 598b of the California Penal Code. 598b states Every Person is guilty of a misdemeanor who possesses, import into the state, sells, buys, gives away, or accepts any carcass of any animal traditionally or commonly kept as a pet/companion with the sole intent of killing and using the animal for food. Kingston brings up a good point on what exactly is constituted as a pet? In America cats and dogs are traditionally regarded as pets. However people who traditionally eat dogs or cats as food are Vietnamese. He also explains that “ A Vietnamese-American family, canine-eating family is no more a threat to the pet-trading industry than a family of European

Perfecto Flores was a mysterious man which no one knew much about before his arrival to the town. Not even he seemed to know much about his past. In an excerpt from Helena Maria Virmontes’s novel, Under the Feet of Jesus, Perfecto helps a young girl on her quest for knowledge and developing the necessary skills. The young girl’s name was Estrella and she had much to learn. Viramontes’s use of tone smoothly expresses the realization and then transition that takes place in Estrella as she strives to learn more.

Junot Díaz’s “Fiesta, 1980” relates a story of Yunior, a young Dominican boy, and what he experiences in his family trip to a party. In narrating the story, Yunior employs a unique choice of a cultural shift in diction; there is a continuous change between English and Spanish words, which creates both a sense of familial intimacy and cultural struggle in adjusting to the United States. Additionally, Yunior tells the story in a past-tense narrative, thereby allowing himself the room to express a scene both in an immature perspective as a child, as well as a mature one as an older, more reflective version of himself. Altogether, the integration of two different languages and two different perspectives work together to portray a more holistic picture of Yunior’s childhood experience.

Rodriguez also applies diction and imagery in his article to indicate how a bilingual education reduces the sense of family in the student’s home. During his time at the “neighbourhood Roman Catholic School”, the nuns came to his house and asked his parents to use English as their main language when talking around the house. In doing so they took away the one thing he care for the most: the sense of a tightly bound family. After some time speaking primarily English around the house, Rodriguez noticed “[his] mother grew restless”, along with being more “troubled and anxious at the scarceness of the words exchanged in the house”. The Rodriguez family viewed the Spanish language “as a private language” that made them feel “recognized as one of the family”. When they made the transition to English they no longer felt as though they were bound together, instead it seemed like they had drifted apart. Rodriguez’s application of diction through words like “restless”, “troubled”, and “anxious” display the negative effects of a bilingual education. His family used to “feel embraced by the sounds” of speaking to each other in Spanish, but now when speaking in English they feel separated. In turn, Richard’s word choice develops an image in the reader’s mind: One of a disconnected family. This makes it so when the reader looks back upon the

The book in Contempt was written by Paul Hawken. Paul Hawken is a famous environmentalist, entrepreneur, and author on the subject of corporate sustainability. In his book, Paul Hawken charges business and industry as, one, the major culprit in causing the deterioration of the biosphere, and, two, the only institution that is large, pervasive and powerful enough, to really lead humankind out of this situation. The book focus on the total of damage to the ecosystem and the risks that it poses for mankind. Environmental risks comes from in the extinction of many different species, and many species have already become extinct due to human. All and every species is a part of the ecosystem and each species play a role in the global system. When

Every evening Lilia and her parents have dinner with Mr. Pirzada. Lilia says he’s going to her house to eat dinner and watch the evening news. It prepares the reader by letting them know why Mr. Pirzada will be at Lili’s house

Rodriguez does not comfort whose mother even though he feels something is not right. Richard thinks that his mother is “sad” and wanted to approach her and ask however claims they are “questions of paradise.” if someone's mother felt sad or upset, usually there children would try to comfort them and understand what they are feeling, however richard feels his mother’s pain but does not even try to ask what the cause of it is. Richard compares his mother too material objects. Richard thinks that his mother “seems very small,” when compared to the “expensive foreign cars” behind her. Richard instead of notices his mother, notices the expensive foreign cars more. Richard also does not even recognize what his parents are doing. He didn't realize that his father “has” only said one thing to him all evening. Someone would notice if their father had not spoken to them all day, however richard does not realize this to the very

Bernard MacLaverty brings us “The Trojan Sofa”, a short story that incorporates a corrosive relationship between a boy and his father, Niall and Da.  The title itself suggests that deceit and deception is a feature of the story, as it turns out, this is two-fold.  MacLaverty has innovatively chosen to use the first-person narrative mode to enable the reader to become much more familiar with Niall and warm to him as a character.  With Niall being the narrator, he speaks sincerely of Da but the reader is forced to read between the lines to ascertain just how sincere Da is towards Niall.

The story named “Seventh Grade” was written by Gary Soto. The theme of the story is the common experience of a boy’s embarrassment while trying to impress a girl. Today, my essay is about Victor’s positive and negative consequences while trying to get the girl of his dreams, Teresa. I’m also in the seventh grade but not experiencing embarrassment by trying to impress a girl. While listing the consequences, I must talk about what I would’ve done if I was in Victor’s shoes. I will first list the positive consequences. First is “Does Victor has a chance to make Teresa his girl?” and “Is Victor going to like seventh grade?”. Next I will list the negative consequences. While in French class, Victor lied about him speaking French, and in Language

Collectively, these literary images go to describe a young ethnic man, probably of Latin descent, who lives with his mother in a poverty stricken area. The careful recitation of instruction given to the younger man seems to demonstrate an intricate knowledge the narrators has accrued from both predecessors and experience. Singularly, this part of the story is very powerful in that it shows a young man having to hide who he is and where he comes from in an effort to seem appealing to women, and speaks volumes about the deception that both genders go through all in name of the chase.

In A Thief of Time, Tony Hillerman's characters display perspectives of diverse cultural backgrounds. In Jim Chee and Joe Leaphorn we see a shared heritage, as well as their contrasting points of view which stem from choosing different values to live by. Quite a few characters in Hillerman's book, who are not of Navajo blood, connect themselves with Navajo culture through digs, collection, and personal gain. This essay will briefly touch on the view points of three characters; Jim Chee, Joe Leaphorn, and Richard DuMont. In these three, we are able to see a variety of cultural angles and values through their interactions with a single interface, death.