Comparing Confetti Girl And Tortilla Sun

In the passages Confetti Girl by Diana López and Tortilla Sun by Jennifer Cervantes, the narrators and the parents have different opinion on what is the right thing to do, and because of their different opinions, tension and distance in their relationship is created. The narrators in both passages feel alone or left out either because of the lack of attention of because they are missing a beloved parent. In both passages the narrators feel uncomfortable with the parent and is not fully opening up to them. In the sections Confetti Girl and Tortilla Sun, the different opinions between the two narrators and parents create distance and tension in their relationship.

In the stories "Confetti Girl" and "Tortilla Sun," the point of views are very similar. They are similar because the deal with helpful parents and bratty kids. The stories have the bratty kids disrespecting their parents that are trying to help them. In both of the stories, the point of view is similar because the stories have two bratty kids, they also have two helpful parents, and they both have to girls for the kids.

The lack of communication in the story has lead to stress, tension, disagreements , and misunderstanding between the family members. The emotions of each character contributed to effects of the De La Garza family's tradition, logic,rules, and willpower. These factors were beneficial and also harmful to the family. The family tradition is that the youngest child has to take care of the parents.

Both girl’s Points of View are that the parents don’t attempt to find out any of their interests. The Parent’s Points of View are they feel like they already understand their interests. Since they don’t actually understand their interests in makes tension and causes their children to distance themselves from them. According to the text it says, “We just unpacked and I-I had plans. She raised her eyebrows, surprised. “Plans?”” This proves my thesis because it shows they she didn’t even know that she had friends which

Based off of the point of views of the children, the reader can tell what the struggles are. In Tortilla Sun, the daughter has issues comprehending that he mother was going away for a whole summer to finish her university. The girl takes this as that her mom is putting herself first because in both stories, one parent is gone. This leaves Izzy, the daughter, hurt and non-content with her mom’s choice. In Confetti Girl, the young girl’s day starts off well until her father brings up conversations about his job. Things having to do with English. The daughter does not enjoy English and believes it should spoken only about at school. The father ignores that and continues on ditching his not well cooked dinner to find books, and dedicates his questions to reading and vocabulary. The daughter feels suffocated in the dad’s job and not her own hobbies. The two stories are different by in Confetti Girl, the parent’s selfish ways is mild compared to the one in Tortilla Sun. The dad in one does not leave the daughter which has it not too horrid to deal with. In the other story, the mother is leaving for a whole summer just to pursue her study. Tortilla Sun has a worse situation than in Confetti Girl. Children learn from their parents and if you show them to ignore what they think they might do that to their own children. Since in both stories, their is one missing

This is about an essay titled The Dreamer by Junot Diaz. To sum it all up, it is about a boy telling the story of his mother as a child and the hardships she went through as a child. Can you imagine going up against your strict mother for an education all while trying to survive as a little girl in a third world country? This is a little girl's story of how she did it all. I am responding to it where abuse is a bigger problem and also how hard it can be to get an education. I feel that the essay relates to me because I have had hardships trying to do things as well. Since I am the older sibling in my family I always had a hard time getting out to do fun things, just as the young girl wanted to get out to learn.

In our lives, we will not always be loved. People will lie to us, cheat us, and make us feel like we are absolutely worthless. In in end, however, we will always have the comfort of knowing that our parents will be there for us. Let’s face it though, nobody has a perfect relationship with their parents. At least one a day, if not more, an argument occurs between a parent and their child, causing hurt feelings and a lot of tension. Arguments can be formed based on very serious topics, the tiniest of problems, or even plain misunderstandings. Tension between a parent and their child is exemplified in both Confetti Girl by Diana Lopez and Tortilla Sun by Jennifer Cervantes.

When the narrator attempted to state her opinion, the parent dismissed it immediately because he only cares about himself. Similarly, the parent in Tortilla Sun explains to the narrator that she has to stay with her grandma over the summer, and rather than listening to the narrator's rebuttal, disdains it. In addition to being dismissive, the

Today I analyzed the interactions between Mrs. M and Mrs. Maya. When they needed to inform each other about a student, they tended to communicate in Spanish and don’t tend to name the child. They also spoke about their personal lives. For example, their children and family, as well as activities they had done during the weekend. I have also notice, and found amusing that when one gets an idea, which eventually turns into a lesson for the children, they go with the flow and support each other. For instance, Mrs. M found a sweater randomly on the floor, she picked it up and loudly asked “Mrs. Maya, is this your sweater, I found it on the floor, and if it’s not yours I think I might take it home”. Mrs. Maya, responded, “No Mrs. M, it’s not mine, but if it was on the floor, you should take it”. All of the children looked up at Mrs. M who was holding the sweater up high, suddenly the owner of the sweater rushed to get it and shoved it in her cubby.

This is further stressed by the fact that they live in single parent homes, and don’t even have a healthy relationship with the parent that they live with. They have the memories mentioned of the narrator’s mother in Confetti Girl, and the baseball belonging to the narrator’s father in Tortilla Sun, but they physically have the other parent, at least in confetti girl, the dad is there, but mentally somewhere else. In Tortilla Sun, the mom will be leaving soon for another land. In both stories the parents make decisions the narrator’s disagree with, making them feel abandoned or insubstantial, ultimately creating major tension that develops over the course of the

The world is full of differing perspectives. Some people share their differences and blossom together, which enables them to cooperate with each other, while others use their differences as an excuse to quarrel with one another. Both Confetti Girl by Diana López and Tortilla Sun by Jennifer Cervantes demonstrate disagreements between the characters through the use of altering point of views. In Confetti Girl, López writes about a girl who faces controversies with her dad about her studies. Whenever her dad asks about her English class, she hesitates on answering because she knows her dad will overwhelm her with better ways to study, but she could care less. Cervantes establishes a corresponding idea through her Tortilla Sun by portraying the

Having a strong bond with your parents is essential to long-term health and is proven to make children healthier according to Health.com. The narrators in both Confetti Girl and Tortilla Sun lack the loving relationship they desire with their parents. In Confetti Girl, the narrator feels as if she comes second to her father's books and education, she explains it by saying she feels like she doesn’t matter. Likewise, in Tortilla Sun, the narrator feels as if she is being abandoned by her mother and being left with someone she hardly knows, as her mother is going to Costa Rica for 2 months for research. Because the narrators and their parents both having different perspectives their relationship is not as strong as they’d like it to be.

In the young adult novel, Tortilla Sun, the source of tension between the main heroine, Izzy, and her mother are the miscommunications and differences in interest. Her mother has decided to leave Izzy with her grandmother, who she hasn’t seen since she was the age of six, for two months to finish her degree. This is upsetting to Izzy due to the fact that her mother was the only source stability in her life. They move quite often and Izzy doesn’t stay long enough to establish affection for anything or anyone she lives near. Her mother makes this decision because she believes that after she acquires the degree, both of their lives will improve drastically. Izzy doesn’t understand this, as her life seems to be a series of short term disappointments.

After Constancia ignores Abuela when she needed her help most at church which resulted in her grandmother in tears, Constancia thinks she “understand how [she] made Abuela feel” (Ortiz 4). Due to the conflict that Constancia caused, she is forced to rethink her actions that were bestowed upon her grandmother, making her fight to realize the importance of her grandmother. She learns that the worst thing a person can do to a family member is to completely outcast them, as which Constancia did to Abuela. Throughout this incident, Constancia learns to respect her family members as they all have a major impact in her life. Likewise, after Constancia's mother discovers what had happened during the church service, Constancia was sent to her “room to consider a number [she] hadn’t thought much about” (Oritz 4).

Tension in Tortilla Sun grows as fast as an ice cream line at a scorching day at the beach. When Izzy arose one morning, she was instantly hit with a bang. As she entered her kitchen, she found her mom standing among many pieces of their kitchen counter. From then on, their conversation about the counter quickly escalated into information that could change Izzy’s life. Izzy was furious with the new knowledge and quickly stormed into her room to try to escape the change. Izzy and her mom will have to split ways this summer which causes frustration between them and which could leave a tear in their relationship no needle can stitch back together.