In “The Moths”, Helena Viramontes brings forth a life of depression, seared by a gradual compassion. A fourteen year old girl finds herself cleaning the body of her grandmother, now rotting from the inside, slowly being consumed by cancer and frailness. Shortly after her grandma’s life slips away the narrator is drawn to tears for the first time in forever. The root of this compassionate scene is built around the emotional relationship she had with her grandmother. Throughout the short story this
with societies that firmly utilize their standards to distinguish their identity. As a rule people would prefer not to fit into their social standard that can be because of detesting of how they are dealt with. In Helena Maria Viramonetes' story "The Moths", a transitioning high school young lady battles to discover association with her family yet rather discovers association with nature. The story is told through an anonymous character's perspective in which she tells how there is no fit for her in
The Current Religion of the American Economy as a Barrierand Substitute for Christian Living Thenature of this paper, which deals with the presence of a subconscious set ofparticularly American beliefs, inherently involves more reflection than thegathering of data. Whatsimportant is the way we live, not the historical manufacturing of facts whichis more evidence, not description, of the current Religion of the AmericanEconomy. And while most ofthese truths should be self evident