En La Ardiente Oscuridad

In this essay, female oppression in La Casa de Bernarda Alba will be discussed and analyzed. However, in order to be able to understand the importance of this theme and the impact it has had on the play, one must first understand the role of female oppression in the Spanish society in the 1930s.

The second turning point is like a surge of hope amongst the sadness. We are brought a new perspective of the scholarship boy from his reading of the book “The Uses of Literacy”. Rodriguez learns he is not alone in his feelings, “For the first time I realized that there were other students like me, and so I was able to frame the meaning of my academic success, its

In this quote, Castro highlights the main point she is trying to get through. The student that surrounds her and the teacher that assigned this book but later regretted, are focusing on how angry she was rather than focusing on the problems that she describes in the book. They are unable to relate due to the fact that they didn’t have to go through what Anzaldua or Castro had to go through.

La Lengua de las Mariposas, directed by José Luis Cuerda, is a marvelous and powerful film that explores Spain’s past through the lens of education. Cuerda does this by exhibiting the contrast between the 1931-1936 Republic and the dictatorships that ruled the country just before and after the Spanish Civil War through the relationship between Moncho, a young boy, and Don Gregorio, his teacher. The film depicts the Republic’s aims for a liberal education and the pressures this produced within the more conservative region of society. Overall this film portrays both the freedom of this short period in Spain’s history and the beginning of Franco’s oppressive dictatorship.

In Richard Rodriguez’s “The Achievement of Desire,” he compares himself to author Richard Hoggart’s “scholarship boy,” the type of student anyone can become. The “scholarship boy” is “anxious and eager to learn,” but is overbearing in his ways of learning and conveying knowledge (Rodriguez 534). Born as a son of two Mexican immigrants, Rodriguez quickly detached his life at school from his life at home. Hoggart helped Rodriguez to see near the end of his education exactly how harmful this type of lifestyle would become for Rodriguez’s learning. In my own experience, and specifically in my four years of high school, I tried my best to avoid being a “scholarship boy,” because that would prove detrimental to myself in relationships, my education, and my health and wholeness.

The Underdogs by Mariano Azuela is arguably the most important novel of the Mexican Revolution because of how it profoundly captures the atmosphere and intricacies of the occasion. Although the immediate subject of the novel is Demetrio Macias - a peasant supporter of the Mexican Revolution -, one of its extensive themes is the ambivalence surrounding the revolution in reality as seen from a broader perspective. Although often poetically revered as a ‘beautiful’ revolution, scenes throughout the novel paint the lack of overall benevolence even among the protagonist revolutionaries during the tumultuous days of the revolution. This paper will analyze certain brash characteristics of the venerated revolution as represented by Azuela’s

Cristina Garcia’s Dreaming in Cuban tells the story about three generations of a Cuban family and their different views provoked by the Cuban revolution. Though part of the same family, an outsider might classify them as adversaries judging by relationships between one another, the exiled family members, and the differentiations between political views. Although all of these central themes reoccur over and over throughout the narrative, family relationships lie at the heart of the tale. The relationships between these Cuban family members are for the most part ruptured by any or a combination of the above themes.

The character of Demetrio Macias proves to be quite ironic. One facet of his character reveals his determination to find Pancho Villa’s army,

Continuing in the theme of conformity; if the boys are united by their heteronomy, Cuellar’s castration, in contrast, is the source of his ostracism. His unfortunate accident is a wound that ‘time opens instead of closes’, and as the story progresses, Vargas Llosa juxtaposes the boys socially inclusive youthful pastimes of football and studying mentioned earlier in the novel with his comparatively solitary penchant for the ocean and surfing “a puro pecho o con colchón” (94) in chapter five. In this passage, his distance from the others is symbolised by the isolation of the sea; the narrator says the water “se lo tragó” (95) and later, the boys state that “se perdió” (96). Clearly, Cuellar’s failure to partake in the testosterone fuelled rituals of sexual maturity in the city has seen him shunned from the rest of the boys and resigned to hanging out with “rosquetes, cafichos y pichicateros” (96) instead – the modern, metropolitan outcasts. Evidently, Cuellar is incapacitated by this highly heteronormative lifestyle, as the inherent masculinity of the city is a fixed identity that will perpetually exclude him, or anyone else who cannot fulfil Peruvian societies idea of gender appropriate behaviour.

In the Mexican movie, Los olvidados, (1950) the director Luis Buñuel highlights the shortcomings of Porfirio Díaz. In particular, it showed his failing to provide the needs of the lower-class population comprised of the indigenous groups and peasant farmers. Intent on calming the imminent and pending revolution through economically disabling its active lower-class population, “economic growth under Díaz had a cost … became angry enough to attack the system,” fight and commit petty crimes like theft (Skidmore et al. 227-232). Luis Buñuel, through Los olvidados, tells a story of some children: (Pedro (Alfonso Mejía), Ojitos (Mario Herrera), Jaibo (Roberto

At the age of thirteen years old, his life was filled with the wisdom that many people sought. Francisco Mendez is a great representation how to live a selfless life. His actions were very sincere because he didn’t try to deceive or impress others. Singing is not everyone's forte but he had the natural ability for it. People were astonished with Francisco because he grabbed people's attention effortlessly. The natural ability to sing was a gift, he sang to create a feeling of happiness to those who weren’t joyful. Francisco's actions spoke louder than words because he never falsified what he was going to do for someone.

The purpose of Octavio Paz’s collection of prose essays entitled The Labyrinth of Solitude: Life and Thought in Mexico, is to find an identity for the Mexican people so they will no longer be wondering who they are. Paz tries to answer the recurring question, “who are we?” that still hunts Mexicans today. On the search for the answer, Octavio Paz has found various themes that I strongly agree with. The two themes that I strongly agree with Paz is what he considers the wear of a Mexican mask, and been like a Pachuco.

Coelho had two different types of conflict in his book, one being person versus person. Carlos came to the poor village of Viscos wondering the true

Books are a wonderful world, marvelous and freely in its creation. Using words and wisdom, an author can take the readers to search through layers and layers of life, seeking for understanding and hoping for achieving the experience characters in such books has gone through. In the vast world of literacy, “The Alchemist” stands at the top. “The Alchemist” has been translated into many languages and become one of the most delectable foods for a faithful soul. The book is about the adventure of a boy called Santiago and his pilgrimage on finding his Personal Legend. Nonetheless how boring it may sound, the book really brought a new perspective of viewing life to the reader. Personal Legend and Understanding of the World, the knowledge would not come to the boy if it wasn’t for the people he meets and his heart. Upon reading this essay, you will get a better understanding of the wonderful world of “The Alchemist” as well as knowing how this can help you succeed in life, as well as it has helped me.

La serpiente con plumas el príncipe de tollan en donde llego a ser un gran sacerdote de los olmecas la luz y la oscuridad se repartían con partes iguales y los cultos solares intentaban escapar de los rituales los dioses hablaban de los hombres de su religión en donde un hombre salvo una familia a su patria por manos de los enemigos por el cual ellos recibían insultos y humillaciones mientras el niño Quetzalcóatl crecía el pueblo hiba cambiando sus costumbres ellos rechazan los conflictos guerras debates