Mr Perez's Use Of Flashback In Mrs Alvarez

She is shown as a classy and level headed woman who appears to not have much desire to play in the league. She goes along with it to placate her sister. She is reluctant to get involved personally with many of the other sisters. This plays a large role in her to leave when her husband returns from the war, but in the end, her love of baseball brings her back to finish the season. The other central character is Dottie’s kid sister, Kit. Kit is a feisty and fierce character who wants to play ball mostly to get away from home and away from her parents. She has a short temper and is quick to anger, especially when things are not going her way. She has to be forcibly taken off the field after a particularly poor performance and is shortly then traded to another

The character Clemencia for Never Marry A Mexican is just so refreshing and modern. A women of her words. Her fierceness and unique voices help me realizes that these invisible double standard gender stereotypes is only as strong as to how much I believe in them. Before reading this short story, I was indulge into a society where it 's a shame for women to think of men sexually let alone a marry man. I think it is a sign from society to pretty much wanting women to be pure and well behave. But, Clemencia she goes against that current. Her thoughts are liquid and they sting. They let the readers in and be apart of her brain as a spectator. She makes the reader, realizes how powerful she is and she is able to have that power because

The story “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” by Ambrose Bierce uses techniques such as flashback and ethos, or emotion, to show that life isn’t as fair as some believe. Bierce uses flashback when Peyton Farquhar, the main character of the story, is being hanged. His

Throughout the autobiographical narrative written by Gary Soto, many different literary elements are used to recreate the experience of his guilty six-year old self. Different elements such as contrast, repetition, pacing, diction, and imagery. Soto narrates this story as a young boy at a time when he seems to be young and foolish, Soto foolmaking mistakes, but at the same time hoping to learn from them. Soto uses each of these devices to convey different occurrences in the narrative.

Maria was already across home plate when the Robin’s shortstop racing for the ball picked it up bare hand and threw it so wildly across the diamond trying to get bobby at first.”

Throughout Marcenia's childhood, she had always loved baseball more than any other activity (Hubbard 1, 2, 6). Every day at recess she would go over to the baseball field and insist on playing with the boys. One day after school, she got a life changing opportunity to learn how to becoming a real baseball player. This happened when Mr. Gabby Street, a manager for the Saint Louis Cardinals, hosted a free boys’ baseball camp. After tireless hours of practice, Marcenia finally succeeded in her quest to prove to Mr. Street how he should let her participate in his camp. Although she more than displayed her superior abilities, Marcenia’s father still did not approve of her being different than

“When [Perez] pitches well, the rest of the team feeds off it,” third baseman Michelle Silva, ‘18, said. “We want to play just as strong as she is.”

The way Davidson uses imagery and intricacy to reveal Marianne’s past life through her stories will engulf one into the novel and make one feel like they are truly in the century in question. As Marianne tells her stories, the emotion from her and the man pours off the pages and the reader is all but helpless to surrender to feeling sympathy and fret for the characters. The flashbacks are so seamlessly inserted into the text that the reader will sometimes lose track of which world he or she is in, the modern one, or the 14th century. Davidson also considers historical continuity in the stories that are told, and because of this the reader will not only be lost in the story, but also gain a wealth of knowledge about ancient religion, forgotten traditions, and origin of literature from all of Davidson’s

In “Heroes” by Robert Cormier, Francis, the main character, is out on a mission to kill his enemy, Larry LaSalle. “Heroes” uses flashbacks consistently to develop the plot and keep the reader’s attention. If it were not in the story, the story would be bland and boring overall. Foreshadowing plays a huge role in the story and creates suspense throughout the book. For example, in the beginning of the book, Francis states, “Then I am filled up with guilt and shame, knowing that I have just prayed for the man I am going to kill.”

Judy Ortiz Cofer uses chronological order throughout her essay, A Partial Remembrance of a Puerto Rican Childhood, to tell a memory that stands out in her mind. The use of chronological order in Cofer’s essay gives readers a visual of the events of the day starting with coffee hour to the end of the Mama's story where everyone is laughing. Cofer helps the reader visualize the room, the people, and what is happening in the room that day by fading in and out of storytelling. This is seen when she writes, such phrases as “On this day…” (110), “The whole time she was speaking, Mama would be weaving my hair…” (110), and “…Sara, played jacks by herself on the tile porch…” (112). When Cofer goes back to telling the memory of Mama’s story she puts Mama’s words into quotations, which helps the reader know that it was Mama speaking. Cofer also gives details about the women in the room that day, for instance, she states “…I was distracted by the sound of Aunt Laura’s violent rocking.” (112) and “Mama ignored Laura’s obvious discomfort, digging out ribbon... (113). The reader can see that Mama's story agitated Laura, however, Mama just continues on and pays no attention. Without the use of chronological order, the essay would be all over the place and the reader would not be able to put themselves in the story and have the feeling they were

That’s why she decided to play tee ball when she was just a little thing. After her two years of playing she was bumped up to softball, the ball was bigger and she hit off of a pitching machine. She fell in love with the game since tee ball. She made All-stars almost every year, which made her work harder year after year. As time moved on she saw injuries happen to her teammates and opponents, she immediately wanted to run out there like a mother would and help them feel better. Malori moved up to twelve and under instead of ten and under due to lack of participation. She was scared for her life, she had to hit off of a pitcher’s pitch. She was nine playing against twelve year old's pitching most of the time. This never stopped her from playing the game she loved, and she continued to play her best. However, she got hit most of the time whether it was in the ankle, thigh, or back it did not matter, it hurt Malori’s little body. Malori then saw her cousin Monica play another sport called volleyball and decided to give it a

Although your past can enhance your future for better, it can moreover reveal new details that can help link the mysterious circumstances of the present. John Harwood portrays this in his novel, The Asylum, where the fragmentation of Georgina’s flashbacks and journals presents evidence. Through this novel, Harwood employs the fragmentation technique to help readers relate incidents that occurred in the past, to events happening in the main plot.

By including details from her own life in a relatable manner she shows how her points relate to them. It also makes her seem more personable because she presents her problems and insecurities upfront. Silko’s inclusion of the Laguna stories keep the reader interested because it presents new ideas in the form of entertainment. These stories are designed to keep children interested and can easily maintain the interest of the readers while teaching them the morals that Silko wants to bring across.

Dom Casmurro and Pedro Paramo also share a theme of having a narrator looking into the past. In both plots the narrator’s life is detailed; they each focus on recollections, remembering the past. In Dom Casmurro, the narrator Bento, speaks in the past tense with the ability to describe what was going on, how he felt about it and what he should have done. At times, he speaks about how he, at this point in time, should have done something or acted a specific way. This is illustrated when he describes a Monday that he was going back to the seminary when he “saw a lady fall down in the street.”

Julia Alvarez begins her story with a sit down interview between Dede and an interested investigator of her family’s story. As they start-up a discussion about her past life, Dede goes on to mention a particular moment in time, in where her father was foretelling the future of his daughters, with interruption