Personal Narrative: My Journey To California

impossible to come across. As I have grown older and wiser, I have begun to think the opposite. I will never forget the time that I got lost in California because it made me realize what real adventure is, and how common it can be. My family and I had this trip to California planned for months in advance. We were going to spend a week in San Diego for my cousin, Justin’s, wedding. On the fifth day of sightseeing and endless

to San Diego California with my FCCLA student organization. Coming all the way from hot a humid city filled Atlanta Ga, to beautiful sunny, beach covered California sounded like a dream. When I got off the plane I was so excited my face was red my body was twitching and the anticipation of getting out of that mall like airport made me even more ready to see San Diego in all its glory. Next we got to our hotel the sky was as blue as the water and the breezes felt so nice on my tired cramped

who eventually settle in Santa Clara, California, after many seasons of migrant farm work. Although fiction, the story likely mirrors some of the experiences of the author who was born to migrant laborers in Los Angeles in 1924 and was himself a "pocho" - a child of the depression era Mexican-American transition. ("I am a Pocho," he said, "and we speak like this because here in California we make Castilian words out of English words." p 165) Such a journey was a difficult one ("...for the transition

A short story and poem, no matter how structurally different are two literary pieces where a rich story is embedded. Readers are drawn towards these scripts by means of rhythm (poem), characterization, or a fictional setting in their respective narratives. However, the mere script would not make it entertaining enough. It would depend on the imagination of the readers as they are reading the literary script. Every reader has their own way of visualizing the descriptions and symbolism used by the

John Steinbeck’s novel The Grapes of Wrath is about a family who is forced to relocate from their farm in Oklahoma to California. When one makes such drastic changes, a person may also undergo an evolution of character. Grampa is a very minor character who is featured in only about 100 pages, but still has quite a development in this short time. While not given a name until Tom Joad reunites with his family, Grampa is an implied character introduced in the intercalary chapters of the novel. The

understanding of the film's mood, character and narrative themes? The term Mise-en-Scene is used to signify the director’s control over what happens in the film frame. In English the phrase literally translates to “putting in the scene” (Bordwell, 2010a). ‘Night of the Hunter’ (Charles Laughton, 1955) is a prime example of a film that uses aspects of Mise-en-Scene to sway the audience’s opinions of characters and their understanding of narrative themes and to create a certain atmosphere in the

their own characterization, style, setting and rhythm that is essentially used in for the purposes of the narrative. The wonderful thing about poems and stories is that they are created from ones imagination. Through their imagination we are able to use our won imaginations to not only read the storyline that is intended but feel it as well. It allows us to use the literary pieces to create a personal connection with the

In novels and books, characters are faced with a challenging journey throughout life filled with obstacles and tribulations. Characters often change and develop because of these trials and are notorious for coming out stronger in a way whether it’s physically or mentally. In Steinbeck’s novel The Grapes of Wrath, Ma Joad starts out as the typical wife and mother in the 1930s, quietly in the background with an underlying strength, but as the story goes on she develops a mental and physical backbone

Politics 1(4): 175-191. This article provides multiple meanings of borders, its functions and also why it exists. Such information is beneficial for my research since it helps to give basic information about what border is. Questing how problematics borders are, this article will give a wider picture on the issues surround the borders whether they are fixed entities or fluid ones for example. Alvarez, Julia. 2004. How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents. New York: Bloomsbury The story of a political

access to equal opportunities. Thus, it is focused on exposing these structures and investigating power, who has it, who doesn’t and what we can do to change this often by way of advocacy, actions, and campaigns, strive for social change (J. Poole, personal communication, September 13, 2017). Coach Carter is a sports drama based on a real life experience of a former Richmond High alumni and basketball coach, Ken Carter, who became known in 1999 for benching his entire basketball team, undefeated until