Frankie's Wife Alternate Ending

The narrator is caught between his freedom and success in Paris and his past, marred by racism, which he is again about to confront. Using the flashback episode as an example of what he expects on his return, the narrator details the horrible feelings of helplessness and hatred generated by racist behavior. His family in the United States experienced prejudice firsthand and it damaged them forever. His father 's and sister 's lives were destroyed by racism, and the narrator escaped to France to avoid the same fate. Now famous, he must come to terms with his expatriate status, and find a way for his son to live without the same scars of racism.

Life for a child as an illegal immigrant was especially hard. The labor was hard work for a nine year old. He had never seen his hand so black and dirty before in his life, and the pay was very little. Immigration police came, but luckily Carlitos escaped with another worker named Enrique. The two struggled to find employment just to pay for bus fares. After meeting his father for the first time, he found out his father would not contribute torwards Carlitos's mission of reuniting with his mother. Carlitos fleeted to the city his mom was located at with Enrique. On the journey to every payphone in Los Angelos, Carlitos was spotted by the police. But because Enrique distracted the police and got caught, Carlitos got away. He wounded up in place that described everything his mother once shared with him, the exact location his mother would go to call Carlitos every Sunday. Carlitos and Rosario's eyes finally met. They cautiously wait quietly on opposite sides of the street and remain silent. They have finally

When Lengel sees the girls at the checkout counter, he says, “Girls, this isn’t the beach.” As the girls leave the in a hurry, Sammy says, “I quit.” Sammy hopes that the girls will hear, but they don’t and just keep on walking out to their car. Lengel reassures Sammy that he doesn’t want to quit, but Sammy wants to be these girls hero. As Sammy gets out to the parking lot, he looks around for the girls. He hoped that they would wait for him. Sammy thinks that he could hook-up with Queenie if he quits his job.

Although the book’s titular character is Oscar de Leon, he shares chapters with his sister, his mother, his college roommate, Yunior (revealed to be the book’s narrator), and his mother’s parents, the Cabrals. By representing a family with different personalities—Oscar is overweight, and nerdy while Lola is powerful and independent, for example—Díaz creates a microcosm for all Dominican immigrants. Each chapter (and character) in the past is melded into the story in the present, and in this way, the momentum and excitement is never lost until the very last

Then Frankie goes to a bar and an army man tries to kiss Frankie but she won't let him. Although the book, talks about how Frankie decides to go with Janis and Jarvis and she ends up buying a dress but Bernice thinks that it does not look good on her.

teacher who was supposed to take him in and teach him, help nurture him, encourage him, and inspire his will to learn did nothing but completely write him off for the simple fact that this child didn’t speak english. She “couldn’t deal with him” so she sat him in a corner and ignored him. The situation was no different when Grillo was sent to another class, yet again he was sat in a corner the only difference this time being that the teacher was a little nicer about telling him he wasn’t wanted. However despite the sweetness she injected into her voice Luis still knew he wasn’t wanted, so due to his mistreatment he became reluctant to talk to anyone; even to ask to go the bathroom. As Grillo got older his outlook on school only got worse, he became a troubled child

“That sounds fine with us,” everyone said in unison. For the next few months the two families would stay here, hiding from the Nazis, and hoping that they would not get caught. As the war waged on, the conditions of the attic became worse. Mrs. Johnson became very ill, and due to this, they needed supplies in order to keep her stable, which was difficult

Lila lay on her bed staring at the ceiling thinking over the events of the evening. The more she recalled, the more she was mortified for acting like a love sick, slobbering idiot in front of not only the most beautiful man she’d ever met, but he was her best friends cousin of all things! Lila groaned, burying her head into her pillow. She tried to console herself by thinking she would never see him again. She could avoid him by simply not going back there. It wouldn’t be too difficult to do. She would never have the guts to venture to a club like that on her own. This is exactly the reason that Rachael had taken her there. Lila was trying to convince herself he was charming to all the ladies. He worked at a night club. Of course he would

He didn’t like the center and want to be back in the war. He also doesn’t like the civilians and he thinks they are with fear and suspicions. After few weeks being in rehabilitation program the drugs are about having the last effects on them. They went crazy for few weeks and are hungry for more drugs but they can’t find any. They hurt the staff in the center and the people around the center bad. After a while, they now calm down and give up on drugs and now they are starting to get better by helping from the staff. Esther is Ismael doctor helps him to get through his problems and he tells stories about the war to her. This program helps him so much and he found his uncle and live with his family and trying be a regular kid

Lucia’s father sensing this war coming up, was a tremendous advantage for her family, especially the fact that he followed what his feelings were telling him and took his family out of their homeland Sucha, Poland to safety in another country. Her father Abraham, offered the whole family including aunts, uncles, cousins, and grandparents to come with him in the journey away from the Nazis’. Some cousins, aunts, and uncles came along with Lucia’s family but some stayed because they simply couldn 't see the danger coming ahead “..we made a stop in Bochnia, a city in the main road east, where my oldest uncle, my father 's brother Mehul, and his entire family lived. My father spent half the day begging them to depart with us. But my uncle and aunt could not see it. ‘We have children and grandchildren,’ they said. ‘We cannot leave.’” Page 24. They 're resilience to bounce back up after they desperately begged their extended family to come with them to safety, is declined, with the knowledge of Hitler potentially doing something that will affect them, worried Lucia’s family about their extended family but they had no choice but to keep on moving before the Nazis’ catch up to them. They traveled for days and weeks in a wagon with a horse and coachman, but the wagon couldn 't fit all fourteen people and their luggage, so they took turns sitting next to the coachman and walking along the side of the wagon.

The boys, thus, grew up in a patriotic, uniform society where defecting is traitorous. A critical aspect to unifying the nation was to educate everyone around a central curriculum based on every detail of the revolution that transformed the country and the governments version of events.(“Victory”). Billboard signs, erected all around Cuba, state, “In Cuba- Children in School 100%”; they proudly display that Castro has successfully catalyzed a 100% literacy rate (“Victory”). The manner in which Castro induced exemplary education was by providing it free to all children for six days every week and encouraging after school activities, such as boxing. Cuban boys have the freedom to chose if they wish to take government-provided boxing or other activities. The boxing boys learn to interchange their wits and patriotic lessons with discipline and passion; all of which will create a strong, intellectual man. With only one day to be spent with the family, the boys are provided, through government means, a new father figure, their coach. Their coach, a civil servant, molds them into young men through intense, omnipresent training and routine, thus focusing on their habitual self-discipline for the future of Cuba. Coach Yhosvani Bonachea tells the boys while tucking them in at night, “We’re going to put the book here (under the pillow), so you dream dreams of an Olympic champion. Sleep with the angels,

It starts off in the United States, with the same seven year old, who had grown up in the village of Marial Bai, Southern Sudan. Valentino is a Dinka from the victimized south, abused by the corrupt Muslim regime. There were only small signs of war of given, and then shocking chains of events that led multiple children to escape from their very villages. Since having to be separated from his family due to the Second Sudanese Civil War and then eventually joining “The Lost Boys of Sudan”. We are introduced to him as a young man, meeting confusing and unexpected obstacles as a recent immigrant to the U.S. As the obstacles include being robbed by a fellow African American and as he lay tied up on his own living room floor, he begins to tell his story, in his thoughts personally addressing his heartless captors and as he he recalls his Sudanese desert wastelands. Therefore comparing his new life in the US to his life back in Sudan. However, he recollects his memory on various accounts in which he'd seen or experienced true horrors, but how those felt like home. He explains how hard it was even to get to America, and the hardships before, and still, wishes to go back. “This boy thinks I am not of his species, that I am some other kind of creature, one that can be crushed under the weight of a phone book” (Eggers, 52). As the young boy represents the American readers. This shows the

“I would’ve been scared,” Mrs. Delacroix said, a good friend of Tessie’s. “knowing that you were going to be killed no matter what.”

Lucia and Frankie were told to join, but their parents did not let them. They witnessed soldiers shoot somebody who didn’t follow the revolution’s ways, which turned their thoughts about whether the revolution is good or bad. Since the revolution was in action, Cuba turned communist, which means that your items could be taken away if government officials think the items had value, so they distributed your items to everyone to make everybody equal. Lucia’s dad hid all of their belongings in a secret tile, that nobody knew about. That was until Lucia went to the dance, had a horrible time, went home, and witnessed the soldiers arresting her father while pointing a gun at her brother and mother. All because Lucia’s uncle turned Lucia’s dad into the soldiers. He came back, but they decided to send Lucia and Frankie away to America which was known back then as Operation Pedro Pan. They were fostered by the Baxters, who they had to stay with for a while. Lucia and Frankie missed their parents, but they were able to call them once in a

Sol replied, “Mom, I have to give this thought. My head is hurting as bad as my heart. I have realized, I do not even know how to begin to deal with, ‘this’, when I do not understand what, ‘this,’ is. It turns my stomach at the very thought she would be returning to the diabolical Frank.”