Analysis Of The Moths By Helena Maria Viramontes

In the short story, “The Moths”, the narrator, a fourteen year old girl, assumes the responsibility of taking care of her cancerous and dying Abuelita. Her Abuelita is the only person who understands the narrator and the only person she feels she can turn to. After having followed man’s rules for so many years, Abuelita passes away. All the moths that lived inside her are freed and the narrator learns some life lessons. Helena Maria Viramontes uses symbolism and setting to illustrate the oppression of women in “The Moths.”

A trickiest aspect regarding growing up is considering death. It's something individuals truly don't like to think about, but thinking about mortality is pretty much an inevitable part of coming of age. Everybody does it at some point—you know because we're all going to die someday, as are our loved ones. You know the drill: Our grandma show us, cherish, then they get super old and die, and after that we slither into the bathtub with their corpses. It's just the circle of life. What's that? You've never taken a bath with a dead person? Well then you might be a little surprised by how things unfurl in Helena Maria Viramontes' 1985 short story "The Moths," a story about a youthful Latina girl who feels at odds with pretty much everybody in her family except her cherished Abuelita.

In the short story “The Moths” by Helena Maria Viramontes, the author uses symbolism and characterization to paint the scene of a girl in a literary fiction that has lost her way and ends up finding herself within her Grandmother through the cycles of life. Through the eyes of an unnamed girl we relive a past that has both a traumatic ending and a new leash on life; however, we do not get there without first being shown the way, enter “The Moths”.

There are a few conflicts in this book after they come here, including positive and negative side of struggle. Alma has been strong-willed after she had been a mother. ¨… It had taken us so long to have her, so

Annie Dillard’s piece “The Death of the Moth”, is about Dillard being reminded of the death of a moth she observes and how it relates to herself, this piece is a great depiction of the impact of life and death. Dillard describes her surroundings living in a rural area and within her bathroom is a spider which Dillard reminds of a moth that she killed in her past when she sees the web that the spider has spun and how it has caught many bugs including two moths. She is intrigued by the dead moth’s bodies and givings a vivid description of the bodies While describing the moth’s dead torn body she relates it to a personal experience from her past where she watched a moth die with candle two years ago. Dillard described the burning moth in vivid

In the excerpt, Death of a Moth, by Annie Dillard, she attempts to overcome her writer's block by getting away from it all and taking a trip into the Mountains of Virginia. While taking time off, she intends to spiritually find her true self again and get back on a successful track. Only by using concrete imagery, drawing a strong parallel, and meticulously selecting a certain word choice to create points of clarity, is she able to effectively convey her inner struggle.

In the Time of the Butterflies during the 1940s, in the Dominican Republic, the ruler or dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo punished people if they didn’t do as he told them and plenty of other cruel things. He ruled for about 30 years, so the people were tortured for quite a long time. He became the dictator by eliminating everyone who had power above him. He even married his wives just to use them to get the the top and control everyone. It was just an unfair way to handle things and an unfair country overall. In her book, “In the Time of the Butterflies,” Julia Alvarez incorporates the history of the famous Mirabal sisters by telling the history of their life and how it was back then for their Dominican Republic country. Julia Alvarez

The Moths by Helena Maria Viramontes is a short story about a relationship between a teenage girl and her abuelita. Although, the title seems unfitting for a story about a loving relationship between family members the significance of the moths, in this story, has a much deeper meaning than one would think. Like many other aspects of the piece, the insects have a symbolic meaning in order to convey the author’s feelings during the time of her grandmother’s death. Throughout the story we see the use of multiple descriptions, settings, as well as dialogue in order to pass a message to the audience. The Moths is not only a story about death and brokenness, but a story about cures and peace. Upon further examination of this narrative, the story presents symbolic attributes about the main characters personalities, descriptions, and religious imagery that tell the story about a cure for brokenness, a rebirth of hope, and coming of age.

A Summer of Silk Moths the Author Manganet Willey there are 243 pages in this book. This book was Fiction and mystery. Nora she got sexually abused by her father and has had a really bad childhood growing up and it was rough for her. Pete was adopted and had a very rough childhood growing up as well. Paul was a small, town star but soon later he died in a car accident.

Someone’s sacrifices can say a lot about their character. Minerva Mirabal is no exception. In Julia Alvarez’s In the Time of the Butterflies, Minerva, the protagonist, sacrifices her family, her freedom and her life for the revolution against the antagonist and dictator, Rafael Trujillo (a.k.a El Jefe) along with her sisters, Patria, Dede, and Mate. In the novel, the four sisters, better known as “Las Mariposas” (“The Butterflies”), explain their journey towards joining the revolution before their influential deaths. The sacrifices that they all make, especially Minerva, are the reasons why their rebellion is so effective.

In the short story, The Moths Helena Maria Viramontes uses characterization and symbols to shine light on gender roles and maturity especially for women in the Hispanic culture. This short story was published in 1985 and during this time gender roles were changing. The number of women obtaining a higher education increased, it became more common for women to resist the stay at home and watch the children lifestyle. Hispanics in the US during this time felt like they were losing self-identity due to harsh laws passed by the United States. Knowing this information while I read this story was meaningful because it gave me a better understanding on what the narrator and her family were going through.

For this role-play, my role was P. Smith, a representative for XYZ Chemical Company, an international firm that specializes in making pesticides. I am told by representatives of the company around the world that a break out of the Bogog Moth in eminent. This moth is a pest, which can eat through entire forests within days. It was previously thought that the Bogog moths were under control with them nearing extinction, however they have surfaced again and are a real threat to forests. The drawbacks of the forests being destroyed are that massive soil erosion will occur, as well as the loss of water resources. The only way to stop the outbreak of these Bogog moths is to spray them with a pesticide that is made only by the company that I work for (XYZ Chemical Company). One of the key ingredients used in this pesticide, is the egg shell of the Darwin fresh-water crocodile. These fresh-water crocodiles are a protected species and they lay their eggs

Wax-moth larvae is a species of caterpillar which has a surprising ability: to degrade plastic waste! One hundred of these worms can degrade ninety-two milligrams of polyethylene, which is the hardest to degrade plastic, as well as the most common. Wax-moth larvae, also known as Galleria mellonella will be a valuable research topic in the coming years. Additionally, these organisms come with a plethora of information on how plastic can finally be properly disposed of.

Eva has developed cognitive skills. She has perception to recognize the natural world. For example, Eva was playing with sand out door area. She was using plastic flowers, and some of the teacher put some real rosemary too. Eva grabed the rosemary and she asked me, “it is real?” I said, “What do you think?” She said, “Smell like it is real” I replied, “Yes you are right, it is real, it is rosemary!” Eva has the ability to memorize information. I was reading the book “The very hungry caterpillar and I was using some words in Spanish and I said, “La carapila is the caterpillar in Spanish.” Eva said, “It sounds like caterpillar” “I corrected my error and I said, “ La oruga is Caterpillar in Spanish.” La oruga means, the caterpillar in Spanish.”

Order Lepidoptera is part of a class of insects that includes butterflies, moths and the caterpillars that begat them. They are found in many parts of the world, most notably in North America and throughout various sections of Europe. One of the most notable representatives of this order is the Painted Lady butterfly. However, virtually all of the butterflies stratified into this particular order have a series of scales on their wings; although it is commonly believed that removing the scales from these butterflies would be fatal, they can continue to live after their wings have been removed (Bartlett, 2004). Subsequently, the term Lepidoptera is descended from the Greek language and is interpreted as 'scale wings'.