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Enrique’s mother’s decision of leaving couldn’t have been any worse, “She walks away. Donde esta mi mami? Enrique cries, over and over. Where is my mom? His mother never returns, and that decides Enrique’s fate” (Nazario 5). His mother leaving without saying a word to him was heartbreaking because he had no idea she was leaving forever. Enrique became unhappy and had to grow up with this feeling inside him which later caused him to make poor decisions. Being left by his mother, Enrique had to stay with his grandma and “every year on Mother’s day, he [made] a heart shaped card at school and [pressed] it into her hand. “I love you very much grandma”… but she is not his mother” (Nazario 12). The growing love for his grandma caused him to consider her as his mother. Since Enrique was young and didn’t understand why his mother had left him, he blamed her for not being there for him. Nazario hopes to persuade readers to feel like they need to dwell on the topic of immigration and notice that it is still happening

In Aria: A Memoir of a Bilingual Childhood by Richard Rodriguez, various stylistic devices and rhetorical strategies are used such as symbolism, and pathos. Symbolism Rodriguez uses in the piece, consists of his home, and the general public. To young Rodriguez, his time at home represented comfort, and safety. Furthermore Rodriguez's Home represented a “pleasing, soothing, consoling reminder” that he was in a sheltered environment away from “los gringos.” In contrast, the general public which consisted of Rodriguez’s neighborhood, school, and the store symbolised a time spent frightened by the english language sounds, the experience of feeling apart from english speaking children, and the idea that his parents were not powerful enough to protect him. Such symbolism is also used in order for Rodriguez to appeal to the audience's emotions in order to persuade them into agreeing with his argument on bilingual education. By Rodriguez sharing his experience of feeling afraid of the public language, he teaches the audience that while “it would have pleased me to hear my teachers address me in Spanish when I entered the classroom” he would delay learning the language of a public society. As Rodriguez and his siblings began to assimilate into the english language, he found that “The house I returned to each afternoon was quiet. Intimate Sounds no longer rushed to the door to greet me. There were other noises inside.” While this marked a lost of intimacy and the private language

Ten year after her second marriage happiness surprised Julia, she knew the man who  became her third husband. The true companero for the women she had become.    The “first Muse” by Julia Alvarez show us that we have to overcome our obstacle in  order to get successful. Julia had to deal with a dictatorship and bullying at her school but that  didn’t stop

"Después de estas amenazantes palabras de Mama Elena, Tita procuró estar lo más alejada de Pedro que pudo. Lo que le fue imposible fue borrar de su rostro una franca sonrisa de satisfacción. Desde ese momento la boda tuvo para ella otro significado"

     As a young child, Rodriguez finds comfort and safety in his noisy home full of Spanish sounds. Spanish, is his family's' intimate language that comforts Rodriguez by surrounding him in a web built by the family love and security which is conveyed using

The story begins in Guatemala; it shows the happy family life which Rosa and Enrique have. Their family friends are visiting and they are talking about the life in United States. Rosa’s godmother says she has been reading Good

Demetria Martínez’s Mother Tongue is divided into five sections and an epilogue. The first three parts of the text present Mary/ María’s, the narrator, recollection of the time when she was nineteen and met José Luis, a refuge from El Salvador, for the first time. The forth and fifth parts, chronologically, go back to her tragic experience when she was seven years old and then her trip to El Salvador with her son, the fruit of her romance with José Luis, twenty years after she met José Luis. And finally the epilogue consists a letter from José Luis to Mary/ María after her trip to El Salvador. The essay traces the development of Mother Tongue’s principal protagonists, María/ Mary. With a close reading of the text, I argue how the forth

“On March 20, 2000, he goes to his grandmother Águeda’s house. He stands on the same porch that his mother disappeared from eleven years ago. He hugs Maria Isabel and Aunt Rosa Amelia. Then he steps off” (44).

The author creates themes of commonality that are relatable to many in this story story. There is a crucial moment in rebellious child’s lives that pushes them to act out. For Lola this happens to be her mother and her battle with breast cancer, “with her cancer there wasn’t much she could do anymore” (Diaz 5). Lola,

The Happy Death of Alborada Almanza is a story designed for older Cuban women. Taking into account several years of life, giving us a view of what can be a peaceful death. What the author is trying to illustrate is an unpleasant Cuban reality that took place during the special period. The financial crisis that was happening in Cuba drove their own people to suffer, making them go to bed without any food. However, the central point of the story is Alborada Almanza. An old women who spend several years living by herself, suffering from malnutrition and living under extreme poverty. The story talks about how death came to get her, but before dying she wanted to spoil herself. Asking San Rafael Archangel to let

“Sí, nos perdimos en el mar. Estaba oscuro y que vio la luz por lo que se acercó a ella. Tenemos hambre y también muy cansado. ¿Podemos descansar aquí por la

As children grow up in a dysfunctional family, they experience trauma and pain from their parent’s actions, words, and attitudes. With this trauma experienced, they grew up changed; different from other children. The parent’s behavior affects them and whether they like it or not, sometimes it can influence them, and they can react against it or can repeat it. In Junot Díaz’s “Fiesta, 1980”, is presented this theme of the dysfunctional family. The author presents a story of an adolescent Latin boy called Junior, who narrates the chronicles of his dysfunctional family, a family of immigrants from the Dominican Republic driving to a party in the Bronx, New York City. “Papi had been with

Rodriguez is ashamed. He is ashamed with the fact his espanol is no longer his main language. The author presents, “I grew up a victim to a

Moreover, the story depicted in the novel entitled as Delirium is based on the story of Agustina Londono who had a disturbing childhood as she had no mother and her father was very strict (Restrepo 28). Moreover, it could be analyzed

She sometimes sits out by the creek and remembers her father telling her “I am your father, I will never abandon you.” (Cisneros 1) She remembers this only after she is a mother and this is when she realizes “How when a man and a woman love each other, sometimes that love sours. But a parent’s love for a child, a child’s for its parents, is another thing entirely.” (Cisneros 1) Surely by now she feels her love souring. She can not understand why Juan must drink all time and why he continues to beat after he promises that he will never do it again.