Antonio's Dream In The Lunas And The Marez

In contrast to John’s newly crafted dreams, Alfonso, Alexandra’s aunt, also had dreams that did not become reality. She relates her love story and dream of a future with Gustavo Madero. She eventually concludes: “What is constant in history is greed and foolishness and a love for blood and this is a thing that even God-who knows all that can be known-seems powerless to change” (239). According to Alfonso, dreams are “foolishness”. Furthermore, if the all-knowing God can not change destiny then dreams certainly have no role in the crafting of destiny. God’s inability to change destiny, further highlights conflict between John Grady’s destiny and his aspirations. Through out the novel he makes decisions based on his dreams. Alfonso insinuates the necessity for John to acknowledge the consequences of his actions as a result of his fantasies: “…if it were fate that ruled our houses it could perhaps be flattered or reasoned” (231). The decisions that John makes based on his fantasies affect his destiny.

The main theme in this book is that of individual experience, which is written as if the reader was looking through the eyes of the narrator, not knowing the context, but understanding how life is for those who have been through the experience.

Anthony Eaton’s a new kind of dreaming (2001) is a mystery novel about the nature of corruption as it lurks in the town of Port Barren and a young boy’s journey to reveal a dark and buried secret within the town. Eaton has used a variety of literary techniques such as a third-person limited point of view, setting, characterisation and imagery to position the reader to respond to the text’s characters with a specific moral mind-set. Ultimately, Eaton has used a carefully constructed the characters in a new kind of dreaming, to facilitate an empathy for those that suffer from injustice and corruption within society.

“I want to be like the waves on the sea, like the clouds in the wind, but I’m me. One day I’ll jump out of my skin. I’ll shake the sky like a hundred violins” (60). In the story “The House on Mango Street”, the author Sandra Cisneros uses sentences full of imagery, metaphors, and word games, to show how self definition is a result of the people and places surrounding you. This is represented throughout the book when Esperanza wants to change her name, living in a male dominated society, and when she wishes for a new home.

Have you ever had a dream that you have been really committed to? Has something or someone ever stopped you short of that or any dream of yours? These questions are quite relevant to the main characters in the selections Of Mice and Men and “Only Daughter”. Of Mice and Men is a well-known story by John Steinbeck that tells the tale of two travel companions, George Milton and Lennie Small, as they dream and work hard to gain a small piece of land for themselves during The Great Depression, a harsh financial time. “Only Daughter” is an autobiographical essay by Sandra Cisneros about her struggles on trying to bond with her father while being impeded by her six brothers. The two selections’ main dreams are both corresponding and distinct in various ways. The dreams are also very substantial to the one who holds it. George and Lennie’s dream, in Of Mice and Men, influenced their lifestyle, behavior, and relationship between them. Sandra Cisneros’s dream, from “Only Daughter”, had an impact on the topic of her writing, her writing style, and her relationship with her father, who she has been trying to gain the approval for her writing career for many years.

In this passage Antonio is trying join his brothers on their quest, but his brothers know all too well that he is not destined to follow them on their path as it is suggested that Antonio is not cut out for work which demands physical labor. The dream also foreshadows the separation of Antonio’s brothers from the family, leaving behind their father, who dreamt of building a highway with his three eldest.

In the novel “ Of Mice and Men” by John Steinbeck, is a fiction book that lets the readers know about two ranch hands who go together everywhere and they end up coming to a ranch to earn money for the dream they have to own some acres but they ended up having to go through some hard times which made it to never happen. Steinbeck wants us to know that dreams aren’t real, because they aren’t achievable, they don’t take actions to make it happen. Steinbeck uses foreshadowing and symbolism to express the theme by creating suspense and emotional connections to the characters and their dreams.

For example, when Antonio started to believe in the Golden Carp instead of God, he had a dream that God was angry with him, “I am not the God of forgiveness... I can have no priest who has golden idols before him” (Anaya, 173). He also dreams of his friend Florence who died, he also sees Lupito and Narciso, who were shot in his dreams, “These are the men I’ve seen die! I cried.

Although the book’s titular character is Oscar de Leon, he shares chapters with his sister, his mother, his college roommate, Yunior (revealed to be the book’s narrator), and his mother’s parents, the Cabrals. By representing a family with different personalities—Oscar is overweight, and nerdy while Lola is powerful and independent, for example—Díaz creates a microcosm for all Dominican immigrants. Each chapter (and character) in the past is melded into the story in the present, and in this way, the momentum and excitement is never lost until the very last

In Of Mice and Men, the hopes and dreams of the men on the ranch are a continuous focus and theme throughout the novel. John Steinbeck portrays the effects that dreams, or lack of them, have on the lives of the characters and the outcome of the novel. Steinbeck uses the concept of dreams at once to show hope and aspiration, as they invoke companionship with united determination for a better future, and to illustrate the difficulties of survival, with unrealised dreams illuminating the dark despair of society at that time.

Throughout the story Rudolfo Anaya uses Antonio’s dreams as a device to further our understanding of Antonio, and foreshadow upcoming events. In his first dream, he witnesses Ultima midwifing his birth. Shortly after his birth his mother’s side of the family begin fighting with his father’s side of the family. They are fighting about what to do with the afterbirth, because his father’s family wanted to bury it while his mother’s wanted to burn it. Ultima quickly breaks up this argument and says because she delivered the baby, she will decide its destiny. By showing us the argument over the afterbirth, this dream foreshadows the struggle Antonio experiences trying to meet his paternal and maternal family’s expectations. His paternal family, the Marezes, expects him to be free wild vaquero, while his maternal family, the Lunas, expects him to be a

At school, Antonio feels an overwhelming sense of exclusion due to cultural and racial differences. He does not speak English, eats different foods that are unique to his culture, and feels like none of the other kids like him. Antonio describes sadly, “She had sent me to this place where I was an outcast… The pain and sadness seemed to spread to my soul, and I felt for the first time what grown-ups call, la tristesa de la vida. I wanted to run away, to hide, to run and never come back, never see anyone again.”

In conclusion, the author depicts Archilde who was surrounded by different cultural views which was his father being a Spanish rancher and his mother being an Indian. Archilde didn’t show any respect for either of these cultural and didn’t like them very much. Throughout this novel, D’Arcy McNickle provided different examples of who Archilde was and what were his interests he showed that went on in the novel and how others in the novel had control over his destiny. Archilde had dreams and goals and he was surrounded with the conflicted issues on what directions should he follow.

When he consoles this story the gypsy of Tarifa and Melchizedek about this dream, they both implore him to follow it, because, they believe that pipe dreams are the language in which the Cosmos speaks. At the end of the book, after all that happened, it is the dream of a robber, which is the exact inverse of Santiago's first dream, viewing the gem at the abandoned church–that sends Santiago back to Spain and to the treasure. Making the pipe dream linked, then, with the theme of fate, since dreams are the way in which people come to know their destiny. Another major point in the Alchemist is love.

     In John Steinbeck’s “The Leader of the People,” a theme that is portrayed throughout the story is that of the contrast between dream and reality. In the story, Grandfather cannot come to grasp that his dreams of the West and moving across the plains are over and that reality has set in. Another story that contrasts dream and reality is Ambrose Pierce’s “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge.” In this story, Farquhar cannot tell the difference between dream and reality until the very last second, when he is hanged.