Comparing The Space Between The Stars And The Singing Silence

Through a qualitative comparative literature analysis, this research will look into the influence that Reyna Grande’s personal experience depicted on her memoir influences her novel Across a Hundred Mountains while paying close attention to the role that liminality plays on the identity construction of both Grande and her fictional character

In A Place Where the Sea Remembers, Sandra Benitez invites us into a mesmerizing world filled with love, anger, tragedy and hope. This rich and bewitching story is a bittersweet portrait of the people in Santiago, a Mexican village by the sea. Each character faces a conflict that affects the course of his or her life. The characters in this conflict are Remedios, la curandera of the small town who listens to people’s stories and gives them advice, Marta, a 16 year old teenage girl, who was raped and became pregnant. Chayo is Marta’s big sister and Calendario is Chayo’s husband. Justo Flores, his conflict is person vs. self. One of the most important conflicts in this story is person vs. person, then person vs. supernatural followed by

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.

When Maya has friends over she tries to keep them sheltered from that part of her life, because she doesnt want them to know about the kind of culture she belongs to. When you look out into the world many people relate to Maya, they all want to hide the kind of culture they grew up in and the kind of lifestyle they live in. These people will hide who they are on a day to day basis because of their culture. These people try to avoid the question “whats that” or “why is that hung up and what does it mean” or they just want to avoid being bullied because of

Poetry is often used as a form of writing to express emotions or tell a story. The poems “LA Nocturne: The Angels”, by Xavier Villaurrutia and “Meditations on the South Valley: Poem IX” by Jimmy Santiago Baca, are two distinctive poems. In Baca’s poem he expresses the disbelief and the sorrow of the death of a boy named Eddie. While, in Villaurrutia’s poem reveals an expression of secret desire men have. Baca and Villaurrutia’s poems, both use repetition, imagery and metaphors in their poems to convey their message.

The Mayan people do not want to be associated with the Latino culture and decides to defend their right to their own traditions. In “Three Dirges” the conflict is immediately started, "Don Lazaro, you've got five boys in Comitan teaching the campesinos how to read. That's subversive. That's communist. So tonight, you have to kill

A boy feels trapped and isolated in his house. He wants to go outside with his friends and explore the landscape, but he can't. His mom isolates him inside making him study and do extra work for school. He wants to leave, breathe in the fresh air, but he can't escape his mother’s grasp. This scenario represents a similar idea addressed in the vignette “The House on Mango Street”: Isolation. In The House On Mango Street, Sandra Cisneros is able to incorporate details and characterization to illustrate Esperanza’s isolation due to her moving constantly. Ultimately, the way Cisneros develops the use of symbolism, the theme of identity and literary devices in the vignette leads one to see why it is the most powerful chapter in the novel.

This essay will be going through the different types of love, and the power that they wield. Throughout the novel, different characters hold different powers of love. First, Clara’s love towards Ferula and Pedro Segundo will be discussed. And second, Esteban’s obsessiveness with Clara will be looked at closer. The bonds of love are stronger in relationships that aren’t acceptable compared to relationships that are acceptable in society.

“Perpetua’s Passion” is one of the only few records of the life of a female martyr Vibia Perpetua. This record is very special because it contains Perpetua’s own narrative of her last days before her execution, along with an editor’s comments. Most of Perpetua’s narrative is about her experience after the capture, and her dreams, or visions, or the “revelations” of the divine to Perpetua. In this paper, I will discuss the presentation the symbols in her dreams, in order to exam the power balance of female and male presented in her voice, and reveal the struggle of Perpetua’s voice under the editor’s manipulation.

On the other hand, it could be articulated that the female characters in both the novels have proved their mental instabilities, individualisms and rebelliousness have disturbed the lives of others. Moreover, it could be analyzed in the novels that both the author in their social context has explained the dark secrets of the life of individuals.

Rudolfo Anaya, author of “Bless Me, Ultima”, uses countless examples of folk-lore all throughout his novel. In doing so, he gives his readers great insight to the Mexican-American culture of the 1940’s during World War II, and how different the culture is than how most people are raised. The folk-lore Anaya used most effectively throughout “Bless Me, Ultima” is; the whole idea of growing up and becoming a man, beliefs of witchcraft, children losing their innocence and the characters religious beliefs and unofficial beliefs.

Social concern and the prejudice of the society, as seen through the eyes of children, is another major theme which runs like a leitmotif in Matute’s tales, underling the poverty, the hierarchy based on relations of strength, the every day pain and agony provoked by lack of communication, indifference, loneliness-a portrait of a hard life described by Matute using her own experiences as a child while she was staying with her grandparents. The childrens’ world is divided in her stories in normal children and the others, ’de otras tierras,…que vivían en la parte vieja del pueblo’ y ‘que hablaban un idioma entrecortado, desconocido’. The society treats them like outsiders and this attitude of superiority is often embraced by children, (because they were told by the adults that the others are different), illustrating ‘the shock which the adult hypocrisy gives to youthful minds’. The acute consciousness of poverty and social division is remarkably portrayed by Mature through the images of the ‘other’ children who are rejected by the society because of their background and human condition. They are described as ‘chicos como al diablo, con los ojos oscuros y brillantes como cabezas de

In this essay I am going to discuss whether or not we can consider Lazarillo de Tormes as a subversive text and the reasons behind why or why not we may believe it to be so. To accomplish this, I will explore the background behind Lazarillo, the different methods and literary devices used to convey dual meaning and give the text an undertone of subversion.

In this paper, I will discuss three different works by Silko (Lullaby, Storyteller, and Yellow Woman). Each of the stories will be discussed according to plot, style, and social significance. After that, I will relate Silko’s work to other literary genies and analyze her work as a whole.

The concept of unreality can be defined as ‘something that is unreal, invalid, imaginary, or illusory:’ (Dictionary.com). At one time or another we have all fantasized about different things. However, have any of us ever attempted to incorporate those fantasies into the real world? The following paper will attempt to analyse how narratives of Julio Cortázar push the boundaries of reality and unreality. This essay will focus on the works of Cortázar and will particularly focus on two of his stories Las babas del diablo and Queremos tanto a Glenda. It will discuss how these narratives tests the boundaries of unreality and reality and will analyse Cortázars ability to make his readers question what is real and what is not. This essay will focus