Abuelito Who Analysis

The first passage reveals the parallel suffering occurring in the lives of different members of the family, which emphasizes the echoes between the sufferings of the father and the narrator. The narrator’s father’s despair over having watched

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

Life is full of obstacles. The Old man has many, but chooses to push through life. One of his obstacles is the fact that he lives a lonely life. Santiago lost his wife and never remarried. He has no children or family to comfort and support him. The only companion Santiago has is the local boy. The boy is fond of Santiago, but his family is not. The boy’s parent do not think Santiago id good for the boy because the man is unlucky. The boy brings Santiago food and companionship. Even though the boy is a friend to Santiago he still has an empty part that should hold family. The old man continues through life with no wife or children and on to his next journey with the sea.

In the story “Behind Grandma’s House” the young child is perceived as a misfit rebel that is trying to express himself by scaring animals and cussing at a factious pastor (291). These are two completely different characterizations of the youth. Marion is a prime example of an outgoing person that will go far in life where as the young child in “Behind Grandma’s house” is the complete opposite and would be the personality that would be getting in lots of trouble on many occasions and possibly making nothing of himself. The two stories have two completely different characterizations of the elderly. In “Behind Grandmother’s House” the grandmother is the voice of reason in the story. She hits the young child who is behaving poorly to discipline him. The grandmother knows what is right and wrong and would be considered the outgoing person in the poem much like Marion in “A Visit of Charity”. In a “Visit of Charity,” there are two elderly women one is just named the first woman and the other is the woman in bed (117). The woman in bed is a complete pessimist. She argues with the first woman about everything that comes out of her mouth including whether the two women enjoyed the last Campfire Girl that came to

She writes “The One Girl at the Boy’s Party” as a representation of reaching the full potential and understand the power and beauty of an individual's mind. Having an alcoholic father that often would use cruel and unfair punishments, left Olds and her family afraid to express themselves. As Olds neared adolescence she joined a church choir, where she would find a new passion to pursue. She fell in love with sonnets and poetry, her favorite book was composed of hymns and passages. As she furthered her education she became passionate about writing free verses. In this free verse poem she discusses the theme of aging and maturing. Due to the fact that she did not experience a ¨normal” childhood, she writes to inform the reader that it is okay to want to be older and to essentially grow up. She tells the story from a mother’s perspective, allowing the reader to see it from different point of view. The mother is scared and nervous for her daughter, but we cannot stop time, everyone

This highlights the realistic atmosphere prevailing as well as reflects the true meaning of relationship. The readers are exposed to the mother-son relationship. It can be seen that even if the narrator is a twenty-year old law student, he is still the little boy who needed his neck scrubbed from the point of view of the mother. Whatever good advice the son gives, it is not followed and instead he is given a lecture. This is a typical mother-son relationship which shows that no matter how much a child grows, he always remains a little kid for the mother. Moreover, the readers also notice the routine life of the narrator and his mother. The boy used to accompany his mother to work and help her which makes a four-hour job becomes two. There is solidarity, strong family bond and understanding between them because although he did not like his mother

In both short stories, it is evident that aged traditions possess the capability to construct barriers between the strong bonds existent in families. Traditions have the ability to turn

In the short story, the writer tells a woman’s depression which guides her to break the limits and restrictions over woman. The woman who has no name or identity symbolises all women’s suppressed position in patriarchal society. In the story, the woman describes the house and her rooms with the words; ancestral hall, old-fashioned chintz, barred windows, heavy-immovable bed. The descriptions depict the house as patriarchy’s realm. Also, the yellow wallpaper’s surrounding of her shows the woman in a trapped, confined and repressed position. Not only the yellow symbolise the weakness, but the paper also

An hour with abuelo by Judith Ortiz Cofer describes a boy changing his perspective about his grandfather. “Just one hour una hora, is all i’m asking of you son.” (Judith cofer 592) That shows us that he does not think too fondly of his grandfather. “I walk slowly down the hall toward the exit sign. I want my mother to have to wait a little.” (Judith cofer 596) This shows us that he had a good time. Another piece of evidence that supports this question is “Anyway, after my mother nags me for about a week, I let her drive me up to golden years.” (Judith cofer 592)This piece of text shows that he hated his grandfather because he only let her mom drive him there after weeks of begging. A quote that states he liked him is “I liked it all” (Judith

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

He is depressed and wonders who still loves him. The grandfather is locked in his upstairs bedroom where he sleeps all day and night. He is too sad to come downstairs. The grandfather ask “who loves him who loves him who?”To show that even though the girl hardly sees or has never seen her grandfather again, he still loves and respects her but does she? They have a very close relationship as shown in the lines “who tells me in spanish you are my diamond,” “who tells me in english you are my sky,” and who talks to me in my head.” She loves her granddaddy very much, and she is sad that his health is declining so rapidly. The mood of the poem changes from reminiscent at the beginning, to very sad at the end when the poem appears choppy like a child trying to talk and cry at the same time. In comparing the folktale to the poem, there seems to be more hope for fostering these relationships with each other for grandfather in russian folktale than for the poem about abuelito because abuelito is near

The narrator is totally crushed by the gender discrimination. She longed to be seen by her mother and her grandma. The narrator is heartbroken that her mother loved her brother more than her and failed to notice her. “When she went into Nonso’s room to say good night, she always came out laughing that laugh. Most times, you pressed your palms to your ears to keep the sound out, and kept your palms pressed to your ears, even when she came into your room to say Good night, darling, sleep well. She never left your room with that laugh” (190). Her agony can be easily seen by the way of her narrating. She does not get the affection that she deserves. She really needs the affection from her own mother, but she is not getting it. She compares the love which her mother shows to his brother and herself. This is gender discrimination can be seen with her grandmother too. She hated her grandma as she would always support her brother and find fault with her. Even though what the brother did, no matter what crime. Her mother and grandmother always supported her brother and never supported or showed interest towards

The tone is increasingly felt in this stanza. It is depicting a sixty years old person who could be as a symbolical time of a community or a person should be in the lower classes. To continue with his or her boss is a young girl and she or he should call her “ma’am”. The person keeps laughing, but now the laugh is not only for his or her self. The laugh is in the system that make the person’s life become in irony for a long

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.

Although he was brilliant, he had a bad temper and was outspoken. At that time, these qualities wouldn’t do anything else than causing him to confront with the authorities frequently. Despite his strange personality, he had sympathy not only for his students' problems, which led him to resign from his course, but also for the common people, which made him to travel in the third class of trains. In his late years, he felt a free person who wasn’t attached to marriage, so he left his wife and children to marry a young artist called Anna, and had children