Mr. Cattanzara Summary

Benito Cereno by Herman Melville centers around a captain by the name of Amasa Delano in the year 1799. Captain Delano’s whaleboat, the Bachelor's Delight, anchors on a small island off the coast of southern Chile when one early morning, a wrecked slave ship appears. On the slave ship, the San Dominick, Delano meets the peculiar Benito Cereno the captain of the ship, and Babo, the servant of Benito Cereno. As Captain Delano begins to ask Benito of the ship's past, Benito begins to have coughing fits where Babo answers the question for him. On one of the instances, Captain Delano sees a large African slave by the name of Atufal, who is the only chained slave, Delano inquires why is that so. Benito answers saying that all he has to do is pardon himself, and so Atufal will be free, but he refuses to do so. Babo then pitches in explaining how Atufal was once a great king while he says how he used to be a slave to a black man.

Waverly has tried by trying to get into her mother’s head so that she’ll know what to do to satisfy her but Lindo is a fickle, one minute she’s nursing Waverly to health, the next she goes back to shunning her. Any daughter would be confused as to how to please her mother if she were this unpredictable. Actions-Loyal “I once sacrificed my life to keep my parents’ promise”- Tan 49 “I developed a high fever...

In Stray Bullet, the film highlights the struggling economic conditions of the Song family. Chul Ho, who’s the older brother in the family, works for Kim Sung Kook Public Accountant. According to his younger brother, Yong Ho, his salary isn’t even enough for bus fare. He is the breadwinner for the family and is responsible for providing for his pregnant wife, mother suffering from Posttraumatic stress disorder, daughter, son, and to a certain extent his younger brother and sister. Due to not making a sufficient amount of money and having to provide for his family, Chul Ho is frugal with his spending. When he receives his paycheck, he

a. I felt that both of them had a strong friendship that was bonded over the fact that they were so different in the sense of their personalities but the same in the way how their family lives are so tragic.

Family: Remsley has a conflicting relationship with his mother. According to Remsley, he and his mother have different views on things (i.e. friends, education, house rules and leisure time). Due to youth and his mother disagreements in the home causes verbal conflict between them. Remsley and his mother have a

They are picked up by a woman and during the drive she frequently uses the word poor to describe the family. “We’re not poor” (Walls 121). The woman thinks the family is poor because their car broke down and possibly because of their appearance. “And what am I supposed to tell people about my parents?” (Walls 5).

"The Causes of Poverty." Looking at History. N.p., 6 May 2008. Web. 20 Aug. 2015.). One third of the family’s income was spent on alcohol, putting more strain on household finances (John, Richard, Br. "The Causes of Poverty." Looking at History. N.p., 6 May 2008. Web. 20 Aug. 2015.). Francie’s father was a weak man who drinks away much of the money he made a waiter (Smith, Betty. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, a Novel. New York: Harper, 1947. Print.). To make up for his incompetence, Francie’s mother work as a janitor in their apartment building in exchange for rent and cleans some of their neighbors apartments for money (Smith, Betty. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, a Novel. New York: Harper, 1947. Print.). Francie and her younger brother help out by selling pieces of metal to junkies in their neighborhood (Smith, Betty. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, a Novel. New York: Harper, 1947.

This collection of stories begins when the narrator Yunior and his brother Rafa who are 8 and 12, are sent to live with their uncle for the summer so their mother can work. Their father abandoned them when Yunior was 4 and their family lives in poverty, sometimes having to forgo food for clothes and other necessities. Their mother works sometimes 14 hour shifts, at a local chocolate factory while their grandfather watches them. When Yunior is 9 his father returns from the United States to bring them back. They live in an apartment and set up a new community in New Jersey. Although they still live in poverty, they do not want for food or other basic necessities. The stories then jump forward years to when Yunior is in high school and living with his mother. He works and helps pay the rent and other bills

This family has gone through many obstacles, Sandra's husband got injured at his job ten years ago and since then he has been living with his disability checks and Sanda works as a babysitter. Both parents do not have stable jobs where it is promising they will get a good amount of money every two weeks. They struggle to give their two youngest children a few extras. Sandra and her husband try to give as much as they can, but two things Sandra does give them is trust and good communication. "Subsequent studies have affirmed the importance of parents, partially of their warmth communication acceptance and involvement in their children's lives" (ch 12, pg 279) Sandra will not judge her children, even if she does not agree with what they are doing. She is also a authoritative parenting, "the approach is to put boundaries on acceptable behaviors within a warm

To accomplish the task of writing this Immigrant paper, I interviewed four individuals that immigrated here to the United States. I found one person who immigrated from china, one from Jamaica, and two from Italy. I found there to be quite a difference in each of the characters, especially from china to Italy.

Since the story uses a certain object, the Jacket, as the meaning of several issues, it primarily focuses on the narrator's poverty-stricken family. First of all, an example of the poverty is demonstrated when the narrator complains that the jacket "was so ugly and big that I knew I'd have to wear it a long time"(paragraph 3). It is clear that his lack of money was a problem in which he

Francisco Zuniga Lazo and his family of four who live in Los Angeles, California are an example of a family

5. List three antagonists in the novel Speak and how they interact negatively with Melinda.

However, when their mother came through the door and told them of a hungry family, the 4 women did not hesitate in giving away their luscious breakfast to those in need. The children delivered the food to the family and “a poor, bare, miserable room it was, with broken windows, no fire, ragged bedclothes, a sick mother, wailing baby, and a group of pale, hungry children cuddled under one old quilt, trying to keep warm”(24). The sisters realize what a harsh environment they live in, and because the setting is so pessimistic, they try to share the little wealth they have so that everyone may live long full lives. The setting in which they live, houses many people who have even less wealth than their own family. However, because of this dreadful place, they try and make sure that their community, or their family, is taken care of, even at the expense of their luxuries.

Just because Lindo didn’t talk about her fiancé, Rich, she assumed that she hated him. She believed that when her mother remarked on Rich’s freckles, she was trying to be mean. Waverly also finds herself being pulled apart by her Chinese heritage and American lifestyle, to a point where she doesn’t know what’s inside of her. A great moment of understanding comes when Lindo begins to tell Waverly of her ancestry, and Waverly realizes that her mother was waiting for her to invite her into her life by accepting her Chinese