Gabriel And Maria Character Analysis

“Don´t be afraid to start over.”All immigrants need to know this. Being an immigrant can cause many challenges, you have to leave your old life behind and your memories. Esperanza Ortega in the book Esperanza Rising by Pam Munoz Ryan was an immigrant from Mexico. She had a lot of challenges as an immigrant. Before she immigrated to America she was a wealthy young girl in Mexico with servants. A series of tragedies forced her and he mama to move to America. This leads her to not be able to anything that a servant would do. Learning how to do chores was one of her challenges. In addition, she had two other challenges they were Mama getting Valley Fever, and the Mexican immigrants facing discrimination.

In the beginning, Antonio is only six years old. He is at the center of a conflict between the Márez values of his father and the Luna beliefs of his mother. His father would love for him to become a cowboy, but his mother desperately wants him to become a priest. “ Once I had told my mother about my dreams, and she said they were visions from God and she was happy, because her own dream was that I should grow up an become a priest.” (4) All throughout the book he works as a helper to Ultima. “ We walked together in the llano and along the river banks to gather herbs and roots for her medicines.” (15) He takes in her wisdom concerning life and all of the things she does. As the story goes on, Antonio is torn between sin and morality and the truth about religion. “... I learned from her that there was a beauty in the time of day and in the time of night, and that there was peace in the river and in the hills.” (15) Eventually, he decides to find his own path in life and create his own religious faith.

In the book Esperanza Rising by Pam Munoz Ryan, Esperanza is the main character who is the protagonist. Esperanza is a thirteen-year-old child that has been faced with more tragic events from the age of nine to thirteen than some may experience their whole life time. Her character is very smart, determined, and compassionate just like some of the kids you may know. The author does a great job with allowing the reader to get inside Esperanza’s head to understand her thinking and logic. The author uses Esperanza life to encourage children who may be going through some of the same experience, that they could make it through to. Although Esperanza is just a normal kid trying to have fun, the constant tragic events in her life forces her to mature instantly becoming a strong young adult. This paper will discuss how Esperanza grew up and some of Esperanza reactions that shows her growth in maturity, while exploring some of the conflicts Esperanza experienced that causes her to change her thinking.

Gabriel is adamant about his dream and is truly “angry” when he comes home to his family praying to the Virgin because of Antonio’s grade promotion—both of which fit with the Luna philosophy, not that of the Márez (82). Antonio is subject to both of his parents’ expectations and desires for almost the entirety of the book, and this shapes who he is as he questions the philosophies of both the Luna and the Márez before finally deciding that he is “Márez first, then Luna,” as his uncle describes him (250), despite Ultima’s declaration that Antonio will be a “man of learning” (56). In a sense, Antonio is a “man of learning” as well as Márez—he seems to adopt portions of both philosophies in his efforts to discover who he truly is. However, it does show that he is trying to fit the expectations set forth by his parents, consciously or not, and this struggle to meet expectations is so prominent in the novel that this theme is one of the most consequential in Bless Me,

During the times times of when the founding fathers lived, the slaves they brought in suffered from the chains on their hands and being dragged by their owners. In the book, Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson, the protagonist, Isabel, is one of those slaves. She was taken away from her home and was sold with her family when she was only 1 year old. Curzon is a slave who fights for the patriots in order to gain his freedom. Isabel and Curzon are bound by their chains from their lives. Even as their experiences may be different, they share many chains events that bind them together. This is shown through their scars, their quest for freedom, and their imprisonment.

Many of Antonio’s dreams foretell future incidents. In the first dream, the night before the arrival of Ultima, Antonio is born and both sides of his family gather together for the arrival of the baby boy. The two families express their hopes and desires for the

The key to unlocking and understanding Marisol by Jose Rivera is in recognizing and examining the 3 different worlds Marisol works her way through over the course of the play. The main character, Marisol Perez, dies in the very first scene and spends the rest of the play trying to pass onto her impending afterlife. Additionally, Marisol is a play about Puerto Rican culture and religion and how it affects not only the life of an individual, but also the death of our main character.

A reluctant look mixed with hints of nervousness and boredom is projected clear as day on the face of 20-year old college student Gabriella Perpetuo. She attends Miami-Dade College and is currently studying Mass Communications with the intention to begin working in Public Relations. At first glance Perpetuo comes off as nonchalant and a bit detached; more focused on what is going on in her own world, or in this case her cellphone. Underneath that is a young woman who has a passion for education and strong family bonds. She and many other young people in today’s world find it challenging to balance school, work, home life, and social interests. Gabriella is a native of Framingham, MA and has lived there for 16 years before she moved to Miami,

Despite the fact that Antonio is only a newborn, the two sides of the family have already predetermined his path in life. His mother, Maria, wants Antonio to become a priest while his father, Gabriel, would rather him be free and follow in his example. Both parents want to instill their own aspirations upon him and partake in a mentalgame of tug of war with Antonio, the youngest and last son of the family, the final chance to make one of his parent’s dreams a reality. At a young age, Antonio is forced to come to a consensus of which parent will he please and which one will he forsake. This fact lingers over him and often resurfaces within his dreams. Though he doesn’t yet have to reach a decision, this dream acts as a cautionary reminder that he will have to soon in the future as it slowly approaches.

While Maria enforces her beliefs on the entire family, Gabriel isn’t much of a religious man. Gabriel was a vaquero, a free man with nothing to bound him, his limits were about as far as the eye can see. He was a Marez. Even though Gabriel was of the Marez bloodline he was still under the control of Maria. His inner beast was held inside a cage like a lion held in the zoo. He was at the top, but now he is just a fraction of a man of who he used to be. To be on display for all. Antonio is reminded that he is both Luna and Marez. At Antonio’s birth the Marez family came and stated with conviction (Anaya,70) “Gabriel, they shouted, you have a fine son! He will make a fine Vaquero!” Antonio felt even more pressure now that he had to decide whether to become a priest or a vaquero. If he becomes a priest he might become a man with the power of God’s influence in his hands

This is highlighted in the beginning of the book where Antonio has a dream of his birth where his mother and father’s family begin arguing about who he will become. “This one will be a Luna, the old man said, he will be a farmer and keep our customs and traditions…” (Page 5) Maria’s family believed that Antonio will become a farmer also later on the old man even stated “Perhaps God will bless our family and make the baby a priest”(Page 5) On the other hand, Gabriel’s family stated “He is a vaquero...His forefathers were conquistadors, men as restless as the seas they sailed and as free as the land they conquered..” This dream foreshadowed the conflicts that Maria and Gabriel’s relationship would face since their way of living are completely different. Although they have a family, although they are a couple they do not take the time to understand each other and find common ground to do what is better for the family as a whole. For example, Gabriel wants to move to California but what awaits for them over there? A better home? A better lifestyle? happiness? or is it just to be able to move from where they have been so long? On the other hand, Maria puts this expectation on Antonio to become a priest but how will this make Antonio happy, how will it help him face the obstacles as an adult or is it just to fulfill Maria’s longing for a priest in the family? They have their eyes set on these perfect outcomes of life without knowing how they will get there and

Initially, Antonio 's family in itself experiences major discrepancies with beliefs in different religions. Antonio 's mother, Maria Maréz, (formally a Luna), has a strong monotheistic belief in praying to the Virgin of Guadalupe and is very active in her catholic faith. Antonio 's mother would always make them pray and often times,“after supper [they] always prayed the rosary… [she] had a beautiful statue of la Virgen de Guadalupe” that they would kneel in front of and sometimes pray to for hours on end (Anaya 43). Maria had a strong belief that

Gabriel and María’s clashing aspirations create inner conflict in Antonio. Gabriel is firmly opposed to María’s dream for Antonio. María wants Antonio to become a Luna priest who rules over a farmer community, and makes it clear what her expectations of Antonio are. However, Gabriel doesn’t have “good feeling[s]” towards priests; his father beat a priest for preaching against him, and Gabriel often makes fun of priests, calling them women, as they wear “long skirts” (29). When María suggests talking to the current priest about Antonio’s future, Gabriel snaps at her, saying that “it is not the priest who will decide when the time comes, but Tony himself” (31); Gabriel wants Antonio to make his own choices, not María’s. The conflicting messages Gabriel and María send Antonio create a divide between them; Antonio cannot

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