The biggest rift that can separate a child and their parent is if the other, more understanding, and closer parent is out of the picture. This is shown between the daughter and her remaining parent in two similar stories. In the selections, Confetti Girl by Diana López and Tortilla Sun by Jennifer Cervantes, the narrators have different points of view than those of their lone parents which create a tension between their relationships. In one story, the protagonist feels she is not listened to and understood by her father. In the other story, the protagonist’s mother makes her decisions for her based on her own feelings, not the protagonist’s. Both of the narrators' points of view in each story create a looming tension with their own parents …show more content…
First, their interests differ greatly; her father’s interest is English, and her interests are anything except that. As stated in the text, “Everything’s great until he asks about my English class...Nothing’s more important than his books and vocabulary words. He might say I matter, but when he goes on a scavenger hunt for a book, I realize that I really don’t” (López). Her father neglects what she dislikes because it is the one thing that he loves, and it breaks the connection of their father-daughter relationship which ultimately creates tension. Moving forward, the loss of her mother adds to the tension between her and her remaining parent. In the text, the author writes, “Mom always had after-school projects waiting for me...I guess these projects were chores, but they were fun, too. Now when I come home, I’ve got to sweep, fold towels, or scrub the bathroom sink. Dad helps, but sometimes he makes a big mess” (Lόpez). She used to have loads of fun doing “chores” with her mother, but now that she is gone, she enjoys doing real chores with her father so much less. This creates tension because it intensifies how different it was when she and her mother used to spend time together. Her father cannot seem to recreate this bond, and so a rift is formed between
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 “Confetti Girl” by Diana Lopez and “Tortilla Sun” by Jennifer Cervantes are about two different points of views from the kids and parents, causing tension. “Confetti Girl” is about a girl who disagrees with her dad about her school work. She wants to play and focus on soccer, but her dad wants her to focus on her schoolwork. In “Tortilla Sun” is also about a girl who disagree with a parent. Her mother is going away to Costa Rica to finish her studies and she has to send her daughter to live with her grandmother she barely knows in New Mexico. In these two stories the children are disagreeing with their parents’ better judgments. I believe that what caused the tension is that the parents and kids aren’t agreeing on the same thing so it causes tension.
However, with her alcoholic dad who rarely kept a job and her mother who suffered mood swings, they had to find food from her school garbage or eat expired food they had previously when they had the slightest bit of money. In addition, when bills and mortgage piled up, they would pack their bags and look for a new home to live in, if they could even call it a stable home, since they would be on the move so often. Jeanette needed a dad who wouldn’t disappear for days at a time, and a mom that was emotionally stable, but because she didn’t have that, she grew up in an environment where she would get teased or harassed for it. Jeanette suffered so much, that even at one point, she tried convincing her mother to leave her father because of the trouble he had caused the family already. A child should be able to depend on their parents for food and to be there for them when they need it, and when that part of a child’s security is taken away, it leaves them lost and on their own, free and confused about what to do next.
The daughter is bored with her mother's dreams and lets her pride take over. She often questions her self-worth, and she decides that she respects herself as nothing more than the normal girl that she is and always will be. Her mother is trying to mold her into something that she can never be, she believes, and only by her futile attempts to rebel can she hold on to the respect that she has for herself. The daughter is motivated only to fail so that she may continue on her quest to be normal. Her only motivation for success derives from her own vanity; although she cannot admit it to herself or her mother, she wants the audience to see her as that something that she is not, that same something that her mother hopes she could be.
In many stories and novels, parents play a huge role in them. Sometimes the viewpoints of the parents cause a lot of tension between characters. In the stories “Two Kinds” and West Side Story the characters are influenced by parental involvement. West Side Story by Arthur Laurents, is basically a modern Romeo and Juliet, and “Two Kinds” by Amy Tan. Two Kinds is a story of a little girl who’s mom is so into her thought that her daughter could also be a prodigy at something if she tried hard enough, and urged her to try many different types of talents, especially piano.
When writing a story, authors have to worry about ways to add tension to the conflict. To add to this aspect of a story, authors can make a twist in the plot, use more sensory detail, or introduce new characters. In Diana Lopez’s realistic fiction, “Confetti Girl,” and Jennifer Cervantes’s, “Tortilla Sun,” both the narrators have different perspectives from their parents. In the stories,”Confetti Girl,” and ,”Tortilla Sun,” the fact that the narrators have different perspectives from their parents adds tension to the conflicts by having characters disagree on a certain topic.
The article, the book, and I, talk about how daughters feel their mothers don’t know them and that they don’t know their mothers. They talk about how a daughter listens to her mother, but there is a certain point in a young woman 's mind where they decide they want to see and explore new ideas. In conclusion, they all talk about the point in a daughter 's life where she and her mother don’t get along very well and the daughter tries to take charge of her life.
Her father's rampant drinking and inability to hold a job, coupled with her mother's lack of responsibility causes Jeannette to inwardly question her role in society.
He usually let her out on the streets alone when she was young and often did not teach her the traditional paternal love and guidance in life. She eventually used this childhood to foster her own happiness, making it as positive as possible by herself, and instead of hating her dad, she grew to love him. Although my cousin did not exactly have Jeannette’s problems, she grew to continue loving him, which is what Jeannette did for
Firstly, Every hardship and obstacles she endured throughout her childhood helped Jeannette to become a successful adult.Jeannette’s parent were very unpredictable, her mother was self absorbed in her hobbies, and her father was an interminable alcoholic. Even though her parent neglected and gave less attention to Jeannette,
Jeannette and her siblings had to help her mother get through the day because life was so stressful for them all. “At times I felt like I was failing Maureen, like I wasn’t keeping my promise that I’d protect her―the promise I’d made to her when I held her on the way home from the hospital after she’d been born. I couldn’t get her what she needed most―hot baths, a warm bed, a steaming bowl of Cream of Wheat before school in the morning―but I tried to do little things” (Walls 206). This is showing how as times get more tough, and the family is treated worse by society, the family members are unable to take care of each other the way they would want to. This shows how social injustice gets in
In the stories "Confetti Girl" and "Tortilla Sun", the narrators both have conflicts with their parents. In "Confetti Girl", the narrator's father is an English teacher that only asks her about her English class. She wants to talk about the recent Halloween carnival, but her dad just keeps bringing up vocabulary and books, which angers her. In "Tortilla Sun", the narrator's mother got the money to go to Costa Rica and finish her research so she could graduate school. However, the narrator is being sent to her grandmother's, who's like a stranger to her, house far away.
In the excerpt from the novels Confetti Girl and Tortilla Sun, there are many differences in the point of view of the parent and the child. In Confetti Girl, the narrator’s dad considers his interests to be more important than her daughter’s interests which causes a conflict between the two. In Tortilla Sun, the narrator’s mom compromises her daughter’s interests to fulfil her dreams and complete her degree. These differences in point of view between the parent and the child in both novels causes the parent to neglect their child’s interests, and cause the narrator to have trouble connecting to their remaining parent.
In the stories Confetti Girl and Tortilla Sun, the narrators have points of view different from those of their parents. These differences in points of view created tension between the narrators and their parents. In Confetti Girl a girl and her father struggle to connect upon their different interests. In Tortilla Sun a mother and her daughter, Izzy, argue and disagree about each other’s interests and decisions.
The resentment within the young girl’s family is essential to the novel because one can understand the young girl better as she makes her decision.