One Hundred Years Of Solitude By Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Esperanza is the protagonist of the story. She is very wealthy and gets everything she wants. She struggles through her father’s death and moving to California. Throughout the story she becomes very mature, determined, and a hard worker. She really shocked me because she was a very spoiled princess who became a very strong migrant worker. Ramona Ortega also known as Mama is Esperanza’s mother. They are always together and she helped Esperanza stay strong. Throughout the story she is very strong but becomes very ill and depressed. Miguel was Esperanza’s best friends when they were little kids. He is the child of two servants that work for the family. He wants to become a mechanic and is very determined to reach that goal. They still look after eachother, even though they aren’t very close due to their social status. In the end he is able to bring back Abuelita back from Mexico. Hortensia was a servant that took care of their family. She always looked after Esperanza and was almost like a second mother. She was a Zapotec Indian. She was Alfonso’s wife and the mother of Miguel. Alfonso was a field worker and a very close friend to Papa. He loved the land and took care of the rose garden. He is the main person who helped everyone get to California. Isabel is the daughter of Juan and Josefina. She is only 9 years old but can clean, do laundry, and change diapers. She was the one who taught Esperanza how to do housework. She becomes very close friends with Esperanza. Isabel is the only one who goes to school to learn to read, write, and speak

All the people on Mango Street were struggling to get by, but they seemed satisfied with just making it. Esperanza was not. There were characters like Esperanza’s mother who was a “smart cookie,” and could’ve been anything, but she let shame get the best of her and dropped out of school. There was also Rafaela who got married before the 8th grade just so she could move into her own house, but her husband never let her leave the house afterward. He never let her see her friends, and the highlight of her week was getting coconut or papaya juice from someone who would send it up in a paper bag attached to a clothespin since she couldn’t leave the house. Lastly, there was the time when she was left stranded by the tilt-a- whirl waiting for a friend that never came back and got molested by a group of boys. The only witnesses were the red clown statues that seemed to be laughing at her. Nevertheless, she let none of this stopped her from going forward and perusing her dream. She still seemed to be struggling with a sense of belonging, but maybe that’s because she didn’t.

The Lonely, Good Company of Books by Richard Rodriguez is an excerpt from HUNGER OF MEMORY: THE EDUCATION OF RICHARD RODRIGUEZ by Richard Rodriguez. The Lonely, Good Company of Books was published in 1982. Rodriguez is a Hispanic from San Francisco, California. He struggled with learning to read in English even though both of his parents spoke English and Spanish. Throughout the whole excerpt, Rodriguez talks about his struggles and his efforts in reading books that were tough. He criticizes the school system in the way that it does not help students with reading.

Lucy and Rachel losing their baby sister was an awful tragedy, everyone gathered to view the baby before she was buried. The sisters compliment Esperanza’s name and tell her that she’s very special. Her wish was a selfish wish and she starts to feel guilty. They tell her that she will always be on Mango Street and even though she has to leave , she should come back for others. Alicia is lucky that she has somewhere to call home, Guadalajara, and she will return there someday. “You live right here, 4006 Mango, Alicia says and points to the house I am ashamed of.” Esperanza refused that she doesn’t have a home or come from Mango street until someone makes it better which is

God challenges people in times of hardships, however, it depends on the person if they can take upon the challenge and keep faith in God. Eliezer Wiesel, a Holocaust survivor and author of the memoir Night, is one of these people who have to take this test. Elie demonstrates faith is tested in times of trouble through the use of character relation, change in setting and the conflicts that he witnesses.

Many immigrants are forced to leave their homes because of violence. Estevan and Esperanza are talking to Taylor when they come across the topic of their child, Ismene. “She was taken in a raid in their neighborhood in which Esperanza’s brother

Laura Hillenbrand is an America author of magazine articles and books. Hillenbrand was born in May 5, 1967, in Fairfax, Virginia. She has written only two books Seabiscuit a New York Times bestseller, and Unbroken, both non-fictions. She is considering one of the best American writers. Her New York Times Article, “A Sudden Illness” won the 2004 National magazine award, and she has also won twice the Eclipse Award, one of the highest journalist honor. Her most recent book Unbroken tells the inspiring story of Louie Zamperini, the son of Italian immigrants.

The novel touches on different themes and emotions including despair, loss, racial conflicts, and most importantly; greed, which the root of all evil in the story. It was greed that led Pánfilo de Narváez to cross the ocean in search of gold he convinced himself it existed in Florida. It was greed that made Estebanico forsake the profession of a notary that his father wanted for him and instead he ventured into trading, selling several human beings and eventually, selling himself into bondage.The theme of greed being dangerous is shown repeatedly throughout the course of the book. At the very start of the book, the governor wants to find the village of Apalache because he believes it to be filled with gold and other valuable treasure. As they start to get closer to the village, they don’t

One of the books that describes almost the whole entirety of the typical Hispanic household and the obstacles the women in the Hispanic household face would be the book written by Julia Alvarez called “How The Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents”. The book is mainly about four Garcia sisters named Sandra, Yolanda, Carla, and Sofia which are from Dominican Republic. Alvarez starts the book by telling us what occurs currently in the sisters lives, then takes us back to their childhood. It ranges around the year 1989 to 1956, to when the book ends, but yet it was the start of the sisters lives.

The girls being so young were much more vulnerable to influences from the American culture, while their parents specially Papi, were much more determined to keep in Dominican values. As the girls began assimilating the culture, they got into more and more trouble for wanting to increasingly take on the American ways. In some of their many experiences Fifi got in trouble for smoking, and Carla was in trouble for using hair-removal cream. Yolanda was put on the hot seat for bringing a book on the female body into the house, and Sandi was reprimanded for not being back from a ‘study session’ by the next morning (110-111). All these experiences are normal to a life-long young female resident of the United States, but they were direct violations of the Garcia family’s roots and values. The girls, however, were not the only ones with assimilation problems, like her daughters Mami wanted to play a role in her new home; she was very unsatisfied with her recent transition from practically Dominican royalty to an American middle-class housewife. Laura begins inventing new household gadgets, though she receives no support from her family. Her ideas like the picnicker’s can opener on the car bumper never came to be, and she settled for simply supporting her daughters in their

One of the points that is consistently brought up in Toni Morrison’s Paradise is that of the all black town “Ruby”. Paradise uses the setting of Oklahoma to discuss how many black towns are shaped by past history and religion. While the town in this novel is fictional, there have been real all black towns in the United States, and it seems that these towns influenced many aspects of the town Ruby, which is why it is so easy to imagine that the story could actually be real. Many authors have written in general about the novel, and specifically about the town within it.

The Solitude of Self is a speech that was given by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who was a leader of the women’s suffrage movement. This speech mainly discussed gender equality in every situation, including education and suffrage. Stanton clearly was opposed to the idea of inequality and believed that every person, man or woman, deserved to have the same rights.

In the novel, The Stranger by Albert Camus, Meursault the protagonist, becomes drawn into a “senseless” murder that has to face the absurdity of life and because of his actions, Meursault is presented as a danger due to his lack of “morality” to society. Meursault who is not able to take control of his life but respond to what life offers him believes in the simplicity of life. He tries to understand the living through logic and objectivity, which ultimately turns futile, as he himself cannot maintain proper control over his thoughts and emotions. From the interactions between Marie, to the murder of the Arab, and the meeting with the Chaplain, Meursault overcomes his indifferent views to form an opinion about what life really means. The central theme presented by Camus is how the threat of mortality becomes a catalyst for understanding the significance of life.

By far, Garcia Marquez's most acclaimed work is Cien Anos de Soledad or One Hundred Years of Solitude. As Regina Janes asserts, "his fellow novelists recognized in the novel a brilliant evocation of many of their own concerns: a 'total novel' that treated Latin America socially, historically, politically, mythically, and epically, that was at once accessible and intricate, lifelike and self-consciously, self-referentially fictive." <4> In it, the totality of Latin American society and history is expressed. Upon first reading, the novel appears to relate a regional history of the town of Macondo and the many generations of Buendias that inhabit it. This local

They had a relative who was born with a pigtail, he died in the attempt to have it removed; he bled to death. Jose Arcadio Buendia and Ursula were afraid of having children because they were afraid that the children would either be born with a pig’s tail or bear iguanas. Ursula feared that Jose would attempt to have sex with her in her sleep. Jose Arcadio Buendia would raise and fight cocks and one day he won a match against Prudencio Aguilar. Prudencio Aguilar was enraged due to his loss that he decided to insult Jose Arcadio Buendia by saying that he was impotent or in other words unable to have children. Jose Arcadio Buendia was infuriated by the comment that he decided to kill Prudencio Aguilar with a spear to the throat. He then approached Ursula and said enough was enough and they had sex not caring whether they would bear iguanas. Prudencio Aguilar haunts Jose Arcadio Buendia and forces him to move out of Roacha. That is how he forms the town of Macondo. Jose Arcadio who is Jose Arcadio Buendia’s son meets Pilar Ternera a local woman. He gets Pilar Ternera pregnant, but something unexepected happens. He meets a young Gypsie girl and falls in love with her. He leaves town with them and is not seen again. He leaves Pilar alone. Ursula notices that her son does not come home and decides to go look for her son. She walks so far away from the town that she decides to