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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.

There were a few points in this book that taught me about life and how crazy it can be sometimes. The photographer named Fulgencio was very afraid of hitch hiking to Mexico City with a stranger, especially with all of us expensive equipment. On the ride, Fulgencio is so paranoid that the guy is going to kill him, he grabs a machete out of the back of the truck. In doing so he gets kicked out of the car and loses all of his photography equipment anyways. This taught me that we need to trust each other more, Just because there are a few crazy people in the world, we shouldn't let them give us all a bad name. I mean, the guy picked Fulgencio up when he was in desperate need of a car, and gives him a ride. He should have been thankful, not picked up a machete and threaten the guy. Another thing this book taught me was that just because your sister doesn't want your kid anymore because she

Even before the first page is read, the readers are previously made aware of how the book ends, there is no secret to Capote’s novel. The story the novel provides the description of what took place before, during and after the murder trials, it explains the lives of the murderers themselves, and show how the

Therefore, Capote generates sympathy, pity and empathy towards a character who performed something almost unforgivable. This extreme empathy created by an epigraph, a backstory, and another character is a valuable result of a well-written story. With something as strong as this emotional experience, Capote proves James Bryce’s quote, “The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it.” With such a strong takeaway, it’s no wonder this book is considered a

This book, was never to my liking, I always wondered why Mrs.Silva always talked about this book. I was never interested in reading really long books, my mind always would drift off but this book had something about it that was connected with me!

Capote begins his novel with a conventional narrative structure choice: describing the setting. He spends several pages familiarizing the reader with the town of Holcomb, Kansas. This move is crucial, especially when contrasted with his unconventional choices for the traditional narrative timeline as the book progresses. As Capote introduces the reader to the Clutter family, with a particular focus on Herb, he sets the groundwork for the conflict. With necessary background information in mind, the reader first confronts the conflict with the words, “...he headed for home and the day’s work, unaware that it would be his last” (13). It is this moment, that the reader experiences the first sense of satisfaction. This is the

There were a few things about the reading that I didn’t exactly enjoy. La Cruz’s writing style is quite different from most that I have read. Her sentence structure is sometimes very difficult to follow being she incorporates many commas, semi-colons, and adverbs. This adds length to the, already difficult to understand, sentences and causes me to sometimes forget the subject matter of the actual sentence. Also, she constantly reminds the Bishop of how insignificant she is and how magnificent he is. I cant tell if she is being serious all the time or if she is being sarcastic in some of her statements. She also begins a lot of her sentences with the word “and” which I have always been taught never to do.

The story Don Quixote is a burlesque, mock epic of the romances of chivalry, in which Cervantes teaches the reader the truth by creating laughter that ridicules. Through the protagonist, he succeeds in satirizing Spain’s obsession with the noble knights as being absurdly old fashioned. The dynamics of the comedy in this story are simple, Don Quixote believes the romances he has read and strives to live them out, and it is his actions and the situations that he finds himself in during his adventures that make the reader laugh. We can define comedy as something that entertains the reader and that makes us want to laugh out loud and Cervantes succeeds in doing this through his use of

While Gilgamesh and Achilles were fearsome warriors pitted against the most fearsome and ferocious beasts in their land, poor Don Quixote is only a poor gentleman who badly wants to be a hero. He is, and should be, an “anti-hero” because he is delusional toward the world around him. His infatuation with books of chivalry leads him to attack a windmill, which then “defeats” him and badly injures him. He attacks a flock of sheep, the most harmless and defenseless of all animals, because he thinks that they are a broad army full of warriors of old. He is often stupid, leading himself to charge “”into the middle of [a] flock of sheep” like the life of a thousand people depended on him (Cervantes 450). This man perfectly defines an anti-hero, and

Depicted on the cover of Quixote’s Soldiers is a group of Mexican- American men and women in protest formation. They carry with them signs that say “Justice for La Raza,” “Ando sangrando igual que tu,” and “Cops out of our communities!” David Montejano argues that Mexican- American reform groups are often left out of the Civil Rights Movement taught in a classroom. San Antonio was the birthplace of the Chicano movement. Here, various organizations were formed to encourage the government to increase Mexican- Americans opportunities in the educational field as well as in the work field. The Brown Power movement campaigned for Mexican- Americans to reject assimilation into the American mainstream society, and celebrate their Chicano history.

"Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth." -- Marcus Aurelius

enemies would be left to rot, but in his own reality, he is doing the only

Miguel Cervantes’ Don Quixote is a masterpiece in many senses of the word: at the time of its conception, it was hailed as a revolutionary work of literature that defined a genre, in later centuries regarded as an acerbic social commentary, a slightly misshapen romantic tragedy, and even as a synthesis of existentialist and post-modernist features. At the centre of this Spanish satirical chronicle is the perplexing character Don Quixote. Don Quixote’s personality and perspective is rapidly established fromsince the beginning of the novel, revealing unabashedly to readers that he is mad. The source of his madness lies in the extent to which Don Quixote acts on his delusions and projections unto reality as he saunters through Cervantes’ Andalusia. Don Quixote’s delusions have two primary functions in the novel: demonstrating the reality and tragedy of Cervantes’ manifestation of idyllic themes of love and chivalry, and revealing certain characteristics about narration.

Don Quixote presents the character of Alonso Quixano also known as Don Quixote de la Mancha, a middle aged hidalgo whose adventure is explored throughout the novel. Don Quixote’s character in of itself conflicts with reality as he embraces fiction created from his love of chivalric romances and constantly loses grasp of reality. Don Quixote takes on the form of the heroes and knights he had read in his books and wreck havoc wherever his adventures take him. It is uncertain if Don Quixote is insane or is merely created an illusion of himself as being a mad man. In his adventures Don Quixote mistakes common everyday places, objects, and even people as something else. This often results in disaster as proven by his battle against the giant which in fact was only a windmill and his deed to save the escaping princess cutting the enemies who were mere puppets in half. However, before his death and after his retirement a major change occurs in Don Quixote’s personality. On his death bed the knight-errant accepts reality and discards the illusion conjured by his playful mind. How did Don Quixote overcome his insanity? Or was he insane to begin with?

The novel Don Quixote, by Miguel Cervantes, is an exploration into the idea of created reality. Cervantes, through the character of Don Quixote, illustrates to readers how we as human beings often make reality to be whatever we want it to be.