Characters in Noli Me Tangere

“Don´t be afraid to start over.”All immigrants need to know this. Being an immigrant can cause many challenges, you have to leave your old life behind and your memories. Esperanza Ortega in the book Esperanza Rising by Pam Munoz Ryan was an immigrant from Mexico. She had a lot of challenges as an immigrant. Before she immigrated to America she was a wealthy young girl in Mexico with servants. A series of tragedies forced her and he mama to move to America. This leads her to not be able to anything that a servant would do. Learning how to do chores was one of her challenges. In addition, she had two other challenges they were Mama getting Valley Fever, and the Mexican immigrants facing discrimination.

Doña Josefa grew to loathe Spaniards born in Spain who exhibited a very arrogant attitude toward creoles. She has an anti-Spanish attitude which came about from her engaging in “literary societies.” Writings from varying from Voltaire to Rousseau and Descartes were

Reyita tells the story of Maria de los Reyes Castillo Bueno, a black Cuban woman living through several pivotal moments in Cuban history as a member of perhaps the most disenfranchised group of people in Cuban society; Reyita was poor, she was black, and she was a woman.

It can take one person to change the way you think about the way you think about yourself. The novel Tangerine by Edward Bloor, is about a boy by the name of Paul Fisher. Paul cannot really stand up for himself, and is a bit reserved. All of the other characters in Tangerine, make choices that contribute to the growth of Paul as a character, whether being positive or negative. These choices made by Luis Cruz, Mr. and Mrs. Fisher, and Erik Fisher, all made Paul braver/stronger, and more able to speak his own mind.

Trujillo. She is respected throughout the Dominican Republic. In every aspect of her life, she

“His nation chewed him up and spat him out like a pinon shell, and when he emerged from an airplane one late afternoon, I knew I would one day make love with him” (Martinez, 3). And so it starts, the story of a nineteen year old Mexican- American girl named Mary (Maria; as he only chooses to call her), who helps out and eventually falls in love with Jose Luis Alegria, a Salvadoran refugee. Martínez's story of María is told against the backdrop of the 12-year civil war in El Salvador. Maria and Jose Luis develop a friendship that slowly turns into a typical novella love affair. Through their relationship, both characters are forced to confront the violence of their

The key to unlocking and understanding Marisol by Jose Rivera is in recognizing and examining the 3 different worlds Marisol works her way through over the course of the play. The main character, Marisol Perez, dies in the very first scene and spends the rest of the play trying to pass onto her impending afterlife. Additionally, Marisol is a play about Puerto Rican culture and religion and how it affects not only the life of an individual, but also the death of our main character.

The author Marquez uses character names to illustrate the societal preference of virginity. For example, the character Flora Miguel, who “enjoyed a certain floral quality,” is named after flowers (66). By using curious diction with the word “certain,” Marquez points to an almost undefinable yet intriguing feature. Since the narrator is a man, it demonstrates male interest in women’s sexuality. Because the author says it is due to “floral quality,” the interest comes from virginity specifically. Further proving the value of virginity, Divina Flor exemplifies this ideal. Divina Flor is not simply named after flowers, but rather her name has a more specific meaning. When translated to English, her name means divine flower. Marquez names her

Crispin’s identity is something that he struggles with throughout the book. At the beginning of the book, his name is Asta’s son since he lives with his mother and never knew his father. He grew up with no personal name and little dignity because he and his mother were so poor. Later, he becomes the servant of Bear and finds out he is the son of Lord Furnival, the Lord of his small village and various others throughout England. Simply because of the fact he is Lord Furnival’s son, he is sought to be silenced and killed. At the end of the book, he chooses to become what he wants to really be, a free man who decides where his own path will take him. Crispin realizes that he ultimately decides who he will serve while doing what action. The social restrictions that previously bind him are cut off and he begins his new life. The picture with the question mark in the man’s head represents the internal identity conflict.

Have you ever felt that twist and turn in your stomach as if you were about to be murdered by a maniac? Well in the book “Tangerine” by Edward Bloor there’s a lot of situation to deal with Fear, Heroism, and Seeing. Seeing is the most important of them all because seeing the truth has a very important meaning in this book. The main character Paul shows all the themes of the book but mostly fear.

“Life is a matter of choices, and every choice that you make, makes you.” -John C. Maxwell. In the book, Tangerine, Paul had most of his life based off of the decisions his older brother, Erik, made. Erik’s choices impacted Paul by not allowing Paul to feel safe in his own home, causing Paul to become blind, and hurting many of Paul’s friends.

The book Tangerine By Edward Bloor is a Novel about the Fisher Family moving to Florida. Paul Fishers competition is Soccer Likewise Edward Bloor. Edward Bloor Was a soccer player when he was around Pauls age. Edward wanted the core of his story to be about soccer However his brother Erick makes his life Miserable.

The students of the Centre are conformists. They are typical example of Spanish citizens to live under Franco’s Rule during the 1950’s. They accept what they are thought by Don Pablo and Doña Pablo and do not question it. In contrast to the students Ignacio is an independent character who does not conform to the society of the Centre. He challenges what the students have been thought. ‘Ciegos! Ciegos y no invidentes, imbéciles.’ Ignacio keeps on emphasising how there is a division in life between ‘los invidentes’ and ‘los videntes’ and tries to spread his darkness to the people of the centre. ‘La Guerra que me consume os consumirá.’

Lorca described ‘Romance de la pena negra’ as one of the most representative poems from the ‘Romancero gitano’. The poem was written in 1924, when Lorca had been sent away from Granada, due to his homosexuality and was living in Madrid, the centre of the cultural ferment of the 1920’s. Here, he attended the ‘Institución Libre de Enseñanza’ (ILE), where he was inspired to search for the national Spanish spirit, through literature.

Federico Garcia Lorca was born in 1898 and died in 1936, he lived through one of the most troubling times of Spain's history. He grew up in Granada, Spain, and enjoyed the lifestyle and countryside of Spain. His father was a wealthy farmer and his mother was a school teacher and encouraged his love of literature, art, and music. He was an extremely talented man. A respectable painter, a fine pianist, and an accomplished writer. He was close friends with some of Spain's most talented people, including musician Manuel de Falla, and painter Salvador Dali. Lorca was a very liberal man who lived un dictatorship for most of his life. However, in 1931 Spain turned into more of a democracy, and was called "The