Review Of ' Like Gus, Pablo, And Melissa

In chapter two of The Stickup Kids, Contreras introduces Gus, one of his friends, who became a stickup kid. In this chapter, Contreras introduces how Gus first started with the drug trade. Contreras suggests that Gus enter the drug trade through the concept of socialization. He explains that Gus learned about drugs because his family members, both his older brother and his father, were selling drugs in the house he was living in. By seeing his brother and father selling drugs around him, Gus learned about the drug trade and he wanted to be in it as well. Contreras explains Gus’s experience of socialization as he quotes Gus’s words, “They would always be talking about drugs in front of me, They probably thought that since I was little I ain’t know what they were talkin’ about. But I knew they was

In the novel, The Prince of Los Cocuyos: A Miami Childhood, Richard Blanco writes about his childhood growing up in Westchester. Many themes throughout the novel applies to my everyday life but one recurring theme in specific not only applies to my life but also applies to my college experience. The recurring theme of identity is one that I can relate to throughout my college journey. Throughout the entire novel, Riqui finds himself in tough situations where he doesn’t really know who he is. As a college student, we struggle finding ourselves in this mass community of diverse people.

With all the negative thoughts and feelings about his family, Rodriguez never took the time to repair his relationship with him and his family, because books were very important to him than his family. As Rodriguez begin to separate from his family and culture, his Spanish accent also begin to disappear, which he felt very excited. In the beginning of his article he talked about the first day, he enters the class and could “barely able to speak English” (239). Rodriguez felt that he did not fit in with the rest

Rodriguez also shows us that he has gained the “sociological imagination” by writing about his appreciation and understanding

This separation from his family caused a longing in his life. But this longing was superseded by what he suspected his teachers could give him. Rodriguez develops a double personality of sorts. The person he is at home, the polite child who lovingly does what his parents ask of him. And then the academic persona he

In defining one’s identity, many different factors are considered; such as one’s nationality, characteristic, personality, ability, experience, religion, and etc. Especially for those people who live in America, so called country of immigration, has much more complicated identities than those Asian country people where mixed people are rarely noticed. Thinking about the concept of identity, some people easily categorized themselves as simple factors and terms which could describe their surface; white, black, Asian, European, pretty, ugly, nice, mean and so on and so forth. And that is the most point where majority people stopped to list their identities from exploring more in complicated range. However, there are many people who dig more than common people; one great example would be Denise Chavez, who is the author of the novel called Loving Pedro Infante, who kept asking herself about her identity to approach more accurate and clear ideas. In her work, reader could see the confusion of Tere, the main character of the novel, went through her life as Latin-American female in dealing with finding one’s true identity and how she accept her as who she really is. Denise Chavez, who is obviously Latin-American lady, mirror her own life experience through the character she created and introduce to readers about tough life she lived in America as Mejicana. The main character of this novel have a clear understanding and strong idea about herself throughout the novel, even if

Rios describes different situations and plights that afflict the boys of his study. He did so in his book by organizing the ideas by chapter. The first part examines how the police abuse and accuse the boys in their everyday life. They do not need to be

First of all, the setting of this novel contributes to the Rivera family’s overall perception of what it means to be an American. To start this off, the author chooses a small American city where groups of Latino immigrants with their own language and traditions, lived together in the same apartment building. All these immigrants experienced similar problems since they moved from their countries. For example, in the novel after every other chapter the author

To begin with, Rodriguez’s first step to finding his identity began when his parents decided to move to the states to start a new life. At first, he was completely lost because he couldn’t understand the language. However, as time went by his English began to improve with the help of his parents helping him practice English at home. As he becomes more educated, he felt that a distance grew between him and his parents. “Here is a child who cannot forget that his academic success distances him from a life he loved, even from his own memory of himself” (Rodriguez 51). Rodriguez was connected with his family through his private identity. However, his distance with his parents began to appear as he advanced in English. As he starts to become fluent in English, he would talk to his parents less and less. His Spanish skills also started to deteriorate. Spanish is the language that gave him a sense of closeness to his family and is what separated him from the public. However, once he started to develop his public identity, he started losing his private identity. Rodriguez’s parents provided him with his own private identity and help him and supported him in developing his public identity to success.

Enrique’s Journey focuses and sheds more light and understanding on the aspects and challenges of extreme poverty, family abandonment, systematic issues of an immigration system and what one has to go through in the face of adversity. The book centers on Enrique who starts out as a young boy living in extreme poverty in Honduras with his family. Enrique is an older adolescent, Hispanic, poverty economic status, unemployed most times, and is in a relationship with one child. This case study will further look at Enrique’s personal experiences from a young child up to young adulthood and how that has shaped his development has a person from coming from such difficult environmental circumstances. This will also look at the different environmental perspectives in the micro, mezzo and macro level when pertaining to effects on human behavior.

The life of fleeing her country was a very big struggle. She was and understand nothing at that time. The demonizing memories and horrifying experiences are lived by an exiled Cuban family of Obejas and presented through her writing using protagonist. The family experiences domestic violence through immigration and had to adapt to social needs. She, Obejas used her body to gain control of her future because of the challenges she came to face with.

Jose understands at a young age that in order to escape the indentured life of working in a sugar cane plantation like his ancestors before him, he must do something different. In the classroom, Jose is a very bright student as seen through his peers and especially his professor who eventually helped Jose get into a prestigious school because of his academic excellence. He assures his grandmother who is his sole provider and family that one day she’ll no longer have to work tirelessly in the sugar cane plantation. Jose dreams of taking work in a more profitable and higher field then the plantation his community is chained to all being done by attaining

It’s hard to say that comparing two individual’s lives is an easy task. When looking at my life and Esmerelda Santiago’s life, the sociological imagination could be used to assist in doing that. The following concepts will be used to better understand the surprising similarities and differences: immigration, doing gender, conformist, double consciousness, deviance and traditional authority. I will start by analyzing Esmerelda Santiago’s life. Following that, I will analyze my life and will finish with a conclusion that draws out the comparisons and differences of both.

The choices Michele makes accelerates his maturity and his interpretations. He enters a new world of which he can apprehend the real evil and cruelty. The reader of the text is made to relate in some way to the text relating

One of the symbols and smaller main ideas that the characters explore is the meaning of home. Ceyala’s family struggles to find their place, and identity. They question what or where is home, whether it is family, the US, or Mexico. Cisneros uses the idea of home through many characters. In the last part of this book, Cisneros uses Inocencio, Ceyala’s father, and the conflict of when the border patrol come and talk to him. After they converse, the border patrol commands that he moves back down south to Mexico. His family later received the bad news of returning back to Mexico, this sparks questions in Ceyala 's understanding of what is home. Ceyala’s family had