Lima La Horrible By Sebastian Salazar Brody: Summary

Post-colonialism and magical realism are separate topics that connect often because they were both prevalent in primitive America. Magical realism is a literary mode that is used to express something more vividly and attractively, it has two conflicting perspectives since there are parts that may appear to be physically correct and possible and others appear to be fictional. Julio Cortazars’ “The Night Face Up” is a story filled with magical realism and post-colonialism because the story that is told explains the dreams of a protagonist who dreams of being an Aztec warrior who is being hunted. The chosen passages exhibit examples of hierarchies, post-colonialism, and magical realism.

In the story, 90 Miles to Havana by Enrique Flores-Galbis, the main character Julian has one big conflict that is his wish to please his father. Julian’s father, brothers, and Julian go out for a fishing trip in hopes to catch a big fish. Julian’s father specifically states to Julian that he must give the fishing line to him even if there is a slight nibble. They believe that by catching a big fish it will bring good luck for the new year. Julian wants to be the hero and prove to his family that he is capable of catching a big fish. While fishing, Julian finally got a nibble on the line but said nothing to his Dad about it and because it must have been such a large fish, the line snapped. In the book, it stated, “Every time I rewind and then

James Weldon is saying in his poem “ My City” that when the time comes that he dies its not the small things he is going to miss like the smell of flowers or the singing birds Or watch the flashing streams or patient herds. What he will miss the most is the whole city itself, all the bad and all the good. James Weldon Johnson shows a deep love of the world by labeling it as “this bright world” (line 4) and show that he does not want to leave it. He is worried that when the time comes that he passes away he will not be able to see his city with its good and its bad. In the poem he goes on describing his city has destroyed the natural

As humans who live there lives on day to day basis, we never stop to think about what we will miss most when our time on this planet has come to an end. In the poem My City by James Weldon Johnson there is self discussion about what he will truly miss once his journey on earth ends. He comes to the conclusion that what will truly be missed most, is his city . Johnson’s use of sensory images, personification, choice of rhyme scheme and shift helped portray the importance that his city has had on him. Johnson’s uses sensory images sparks our sense of sight, smell and sound by giving us a view into a few of the natural beauties his city has to offer such as; the sight of trees, the smell of flowers or the sound of the singing birds, and how each

She became accustomed to the perception of a desert being portrayed as dull and lifeless (Being raised in Kentucky) until this trip. Throughout this scene, she expresses her fascination for nature, and uses a tone of awe and allurement while describing the attributes about the land with metaphors. This narration occurred following the first rainfall, when Mattie and Taylor decided to go to the desert. This passage which is distinctive of Kingsolver’s portrayal of the natural landscape shows her sudden awareness diverse atmospheres. By linking to the scenery to “the palm of a human hand”, the author uses the literary device of personification with the mountains and the town. Her phrase “resting in its cradle of mountains” associates the basin to a child, and the phrases “city like a palm”and“life lines and heart lines hints a grown-up. The terrain exemplifies a life from the beginning to end. Taylor describes the land my linking each attribute with lots of metaphors, which then confirms that the tone is “wonder and allurement” because it demonstrates that she is emotionally connected to the

La Amistad movie is a movie from the year 1997 and it is directed by the famous director, “Steven Spielberg”. This famous director has made a lot famous movies like for example the famous movie of “Jurassic Park” or “E.T”. Amistad is the word for “friendship” in Spanish. In this movie four different languages are spoken. English, Spanish, Portuguese and Mende. Mende is the language that the African slaves speak in. This movie is a little recreation of a true story about slave revolt on a small Spanish schooner in 1839. This revolt caused a series of trials beginning in the lower parts of Connecticut. This case not only marks a milestone for Abolitionists in their fight against slavery but it also questioned the natural laws of our Constitution.

The Virgin of El Barrio by Kristy Nabhan-Warren is an ethnography about modern Mexican-American Catholicism and the apparitions of Estela Ruiz and the community that supports her. Throughout the text, Nabhan-Warren focuses on the intersectionality between Catholicism, ethnicity, gender, and community and the success of this grassroots model of Catholicism. Her fieldwork was done in Phoenix, Arizona, initially for three and a half months (although she continues to maintain a relationship with the Ruiz) (Nabhan-Warren, 16), and took place in Mary's home, their backyard shrine, and other properties owned and used by the family's organizations.

Suddenly it became a customary thing to have a painting of “El Jefe” in your house. It is a regime that you pay your respects to your leader as you do your God. You must not speak in vein of your leader. Eventually the Mirabal family was watched every hour of the day as to be sure they were not speaking down upon Trujillo. They were forced into a whole new culture with whole new practices. It was a shift from everything they had known. This is another idea expressed throughout the book; giving up what you know for something you are told is

The de los Rios article taught me something I did not know about the curriculum that is represented in schools. In the article I noticed that some of the students like Reina a self-identifiers Guatemalan who felt embarrassed about who she was and how she wished she was “White American” but with the Chicana /o-Latina/ o studies helped her learn how to love herself and accept who she is as a Guatemalan. I agree with her research that claims resentment of a race or a class of people , if we look at how Reina felt about herself it is because of the environment around her that made her think that she was not beautiful and made her want to be white , however after taking the Chicana/ o-Latina/ o studies she had a self -revelation which from reading

Through the strong use of figurative language in this passage of Ann Petry’s, “The Street,” Lutie Johnson’s relationship with her urban setting is effectively expressed to the reader. As Lutie experiences a relentlessly windy November night, Petry explores the harsh details of her walk by creating a vision of the environment, and conveying its relationship with Lutie through the use of selection of detail, personification, and imagery. To begin the passage, Petry utilizes selection of detail to set the tone of the environment around Lutie. The wind is the first and most exhausting character to be discussed, as “It rattled the tops of garbage cans, sucked window shades out through the top of the opened windows and set them flapping back against the windows.” This excerpt represents the simpler effects that the wind has on the environment, and is purposefully composed of words and little situations that start to build it as a possible antagonist.

The entire essay sets a relaxing mood, especially with some of the scenery presented. For example, Agee describes the music of the water hoses, a seemingly mundane thing. “the intense hiss with the intense stream... Growing more quiet and delicate with the turning of the nozzle, up to the extreme tender whisper when the water was just a wide of film” (Agee). In the city, with life rushing around, people never have the chance to

For example - in a scene where the Spanish are monitoring indigenous extraction of gold from a Bolivian river - Columbus and his fellow conquistadors are depicted in the film as warriors of the crown - soldiers of the king’s army, militia men, both thoroughly and uniformly equipped with chainmail and plate armor, donning sharp soldiers with engraved scabbards. This myth of king’s army, sent to conquer the new world is not historically accurate - the “archetypical conquistador was not a soldier in the armies of the king of Spain,” but instead, a majority of conquistadors were opportunists, who were not regally armed, but instead “armed as well as they could afford.” Conquistadors, especially in the early colonial period, the time period Costa and Sebastian aim to present, were more so an incongruous, “motley bunch of individuals,” then an organized, fully-equipped militia like the movie depicts. Supplying this subtle error, Bollaín begins to intentionally critique both the accuracy and intention of the greater film industry’s depiction of colonial history. 
 Continuing, Bollaín illuminates how the film industry, by depicting the swift subjugation of the indigenous population through a narrow lens, unintentionally positions itself

Cather argues that despite city-life yielding success, country-life is superior to city-life due to its tranquil tendencies and ability to mature an individual. In this passage, Cather develops the tranquil ambience

Melissa Hamilton, a journalist for the Australian newspaper recently wrote an article tilted This (Transplanted) Life, which is a physical, inner and spiritual journey. It is a recount of her journey home, it’s written in first person to personalize her journey and evoke mood and tone with her audience. The composer uses juxtaposition to compare the city to her country home, “When we arrive I stumble with soft city feet over the gidgee stones” and to compare the people of the city and country “the quite is loud enough to keep them up at night.” Through her thorough description of the country surroundings and the lifestyle of the people that live there, she takes us on a spiritual journey of her hometown. The composer also uses creative language such as exaggeration, repetition, alliteration, personification and a metaphor to establish her love and knowledge of

“negotiate not only the imbalances of their relations with their own men but also the baroque and violent array of hierarchal rules and restrictions that structured their relations with imperial men and women” Clintock p.6). Exploitation is the colonizers logo and women in this novel are being manipulated for the benefit of the patriarchal society in the same manner the colonizer deploys the colonized for his own means.