La Luna Short Story

Growing up with parents who are immigrants can present many obstacles for the children of those immigrants. There are many problems people face that we do not even realize. Things happen behind closed doors that we might not even be aware of. Writers Sandra Cisneros and Amy Tan help us become aware of these problems. Both of these authors express those hardships in their stories about growing up with foreign parents. Although their most apparent hardships are about different struggles, both of their stories have a similar underlying theme.

After a while, Chet sees his friends at the creek. He tries to warn them about the shark, but after the prank scare no one will believe him. Finally, they see the shark. All of his friends sprint out of the water besides his one friend,Sid. Sid is frozen in place. Chet’s internal reaction makes him just into the water to save his friend. As he is pulling his friend to shore, the shark gets his leg. His friends pull and pull until only part of his leg is

After eating some food and resting, he headed to the village nearby. At his arrival, “the whole village was roused”. “Children shrieked” and “women fainted”. “Some fled, some attacked” the creature. The creature was “grievously bruised by stones and many other kinds of missile weapons”. He ran away and “fearfully took refuge in a low hovel”. (p. 83)

had been weathered. And then in 1986, Chris drove out to El Segundo, made the

Marlin arrives as Nemo is on the quest to touch it when Marlin yells, “Nemo get your fins back over here right now you are going to get hurt”. Nemo stops as he gets to the boat and hollers back, “Watch me”. Nemo touched the “butt” and slowly starts to swim back to the school when a mesh like structure circles Nemo. Instantly Marlin shoots out to the open sea not thinking about his phobia of being exposed in the open water, because the only thing he is thinking of is saving his son. Nemo frantically swims in circles not knowing what to do yelling out “Dad help me, Dad!” It was too late because by the time Marlin got to the scene Nemo was taken into their boat and the boat took off for good. Marlin tried going after the boat but he was no match compared to the speed of the boat. This gives Marlin a sense of evil towards the boat and slightly towards his son. While Nemo was in the boat getting taken away he realized that he should have listened to his dad realizing that his dad gave him a good life lesson.

A Guatemalan native, a male graduate student that I work with in my research group at the University told this story. He came from the countryside, living in a small village back home. According to him, the story of La Llorona, involving a weeping woman, arose sometime in the 1700s and became well known both at school and home. Some claimed to have actually seen the weeping woman. Some disregard it as unscientific and implausible. No one is sure of the exact origin of this urban legend. This story was told to me and another graduate student in our research group while sitting in lab waiting for the experiment results. The story began as we started sharing our own background and the culture of our own countries when the storyteller

There wasn’t time for all her questions. It took all Gabe and Steve’s strength on one of the big ‘oars or horns’ and the Captain on the other one to get the boat pushed off from the sticky bottom of the loading dock. As the heavily laden boat moved into the open water, Alma noticed water seeped between the top of the bottom two boards. She took a moment to bend her head in prayer while the Captain steered with the long aft pole and both men worked the long sweeps to get the 16’ wide boat righted into the channel. She wasn’t sure, but guessed it was over three times as long as its

All summer, I had been practicing for wrestling. I was getting better every day, it seemed like. So I decided, to go to a wrestling dual in La Junta. The excitement, was pumping through my body like blood.My coach asked me, “are you ready for today.” I replied “yes coach I always am.”So we start going on the road, it was a fun trip like it usually is. We arrive, and It was as hot as a stove outside. And we have a couple hours to relax, so I lay down and talk to my teammates for a while.

After days of being out at sea a storm started up. Lightning struck the boat, but everyone was okay. It had seemed like a long night, while the boat shook back and forth from the storm. Ben tried to fall asleep for hours and finally was able to.

Oscar Casares made Mr. Perez a believable by describing her features “she measured five feet two inches and weighed 164 pounds,” (Casares line14) he also gives us a vivid detailed on how people watched her every time to bowl. In his short story Mr. Perez is the main character who is from a little town called Brownsville’s located in the board of Texas and Mexico. He opens the story with her at the bowling alley where everyone stops to watch her paly, Casares say “the ball’s cherry red and gold swirls made it look as if it were catching fire when released down the lane… People stopped to watch when she was up” (Casares line 2-4) in which the reader fells as if they can see her roll her ball.

On September 6, 2015 a man tried to carve his name into a wall at the Alamo. The man was caught and taken to jail. He was faced with many charges.

A few weeks before Christmas last year, I and my friends Daniel, Emmanuel and John longboarded from my house up in Lakeland down to Daniel’s house down in the valley of Auburn. It was approximately a two and a half hour journey through the brisk air and on the slippery wet leaves. It took a bunch of twists and turns to get to Daniel’s apartment, all of our friends called his area “Mini Mexico” because everyone in his apartment complex was Mexican besides two Indian families that fit in. We arrived around five the sunny was already setting, we leaned our boards against the wall next to Daniel’s door. We walked into an already started party. We lined up to greet the relatives, I was in the back just hoping that

What drives people to undertake missions? For example, Ernesto wanted to learn english, go to school, and not give up so Ernesto came to America to go to school, learn english, and not give up. Annie Johnson did not give up and Annie made her own business and without this business Annie would not have money and would not be able to handle her childrens. Monica had more responsibilities to do because Monica wanted a little brother. Individuals are driven to undertake missions because for example one of the motivation of the first story was to learn english and go to school and be successful, another motivation was to make money to support a family, and the last motivation was that someone wanted a little brother.

It all started going wrong for John, Sam and Joseph, when they started to hear sputtering from the engine's core. Their stomachs dropped as they started to plummet to the ground. It all happened in a flash as the cargo from the plane fell out of the back. The plane makes contact with ocean and they soon realize the plane is starting to fill up with water. “Are you guys okay?!” shrieked John. “Yeah I'm fine.” replied Sam. “Guys!!” Yelled Joseph. “I am trapped under the seat, and I can't move my leg.” “Were coming.” Yelled Sam and John, but just then the plane broke in two and they lost sight of Joseph. Sam and John were panicked, but had to get out of the plane so they broke down the plane's door and grabbed two life jackets and bolted out. The current was strong, but the adrenaline overcome Sam and John while they were swimming for their lives.

was a big wave. The wave hit the boat. The boat started to capsize then the next