Review Of The Short Story 'Mojave Rats'

The story “Woman Hollering Creek" by Sandra Cisneros describes the lives of Mexicans in a Chicago neighborhood. She depicts the life that women endure as Latino wives through her portrayal of the protagonist, Cleofilas. For Cisneros being a Mexican-American has given her a chance to see life from two different cultures. In addition, Cisneros has written the story from a woman’s perspective, illustrating the types of conflicts many women face as Latino wives. This unique paradigm allows the reader to examine the events and characters using a feminist critical perspective.

“The Electric Ant” is a science fiction short story written by Philip K. Dick and published in 1969. In this setting, the story takes place in a distant alternative universe. Mankind’s identity and freedom are being questioned in this futuristic society. Indeed, the plot explores the identity of a protagonist who has been disconnected from reality after an accident, by being transformed into an organic robot. A being that is no longer human despite having the skin, the flesh and the physical body of a man. The story focuses on the shift of reality perceived by an organic robot. Nevertheless, it brings us a closer look at how the perspective of reality is approached from the point of view of a sub-social class. As the story goes on, the protagonist becomes more and more obsessed with his individuality and true freedom. The plot emphasis on the development of the main character’s identity throughout the story.

When watching this documentary, I only saw Donna’s life story as one full of resiliency. It was very difficult for me to focus on her deficits within a problem solving approach and to ignore her strengths. To begin, it is vital to examine Donna’s childhood adversities and her ability to overcome those hardships and prevent them from being passed along to her own children. Donna has suffered from neglect, physical, emotional, and sexual abuse for much of her life and has (as far as we know) protected her children from the same. Despite this, Donna has made it her mission to help others in similar situations. She is a often speaker at community and cultural events, examining how structural issues pushed her to a life on the street, and she works as an outreach worker in a penitentiary. Moreover, Donna sees the value in human and Indigenous connection, with an array of cultural activities she participates in. Additionally, Donna has the ability to provide a safe, clean, home her children and can prepare nutritious food for

Judith Ortiz Cofer a Latin American author of short stories, poetry, autobiography, young adult fiction, and essays, as a young child migrated to Mainland America from Puerto Rico with her family, moving into an apartment complex with other people of Latin descent. Although, she spent most of her years in the Continental U.S. her writings are reflective of the strong latin heritage that her mother undoubtedly instilled in her from a young age. This is clear in her short story “Nada” where the narrator makes references to the hispanic community that live at an apartment complex in New Jersey. Cofer’s style of writing and experiences in her life are brought out in this story as well as many more of her writings. She includes some Spanish words throughout the story and ideals of the hispanic culture.

Right away after reading the first chapter, I knew a character who displayed a true sense of neighborliness and community was Dolores Driscoll. She always helped out with picking up kids for school, even when it was not in her salary. On page four paragraph two, Dolores says, “I started back in 1968, as a courtesy and convenience, with my own brand-new Dodge station wagon”. This shows a true sense of neighborliness because she was putting miles and wear and tear on her new car to help out other families, all while she was not even getting paid for it. Also, in the first paragraph on page six, Dolores says, “By staying away from the cutesy names, sticking with names that were slightly humorous, I was able to get the older kids to go along with

From the start of the play, you can see Monica’s dominant side come out over her younger sister Claire. It is evident on page 582 where she says, “Claire, I believe I’ve expressed this to you before. I wish you would make more of an effort to expand your vocabulary. No one would ever

Despite common stereotypes given to the homeless and poor people in a society, these people make up an important role in humanity. As the author of the book Cannery Row, John Steinbeck’s manifestation of cannery row in Monterey California, shows the true potential and personality of the less fortunate members of society. In Steinbeck’s greenhouse of everyday, average people, he gives a representation of society’s key characters. One of the most influential characters in Steinbeck’s book, “Cannery Row” is the group of poor and homeless men who strive for better lives. However, in today's society, the homeless and poor people in a town are often looked at quite differently than Steinbeck’s representations of the minority.

Rat infestations have swarmed throughout the world, looking for food, and spreading diseases, so of course people attempt to get rid of them. First off, they spread disease. It states in Source 1, “Around 60% of the rodents carry Weil's disease...” This quote states that the majority of all rodents, have Weil’s disease. That means that if you see a rat, it is probably infected with disease. This is incredibly dangerous for people walking the street, or someone without a home. That person who does not have a home, could get a disease very easily. The rats can carry disease and they can spread that disease, it even states in Source 4, “It was this rat which ushered in the Black Plague.” In this piece, they are speaking of Black Rats. These rats were probably one of the unlucky 60%, or it was a carrier something that was on them.

“Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty,” said Mother Teresa. Humanity has struggled against being left alone and being lonely for a long time. As a result, humans formed a society where they could be together. On the other hand, there are still people who are left out of the society. In other words, there are still people out there who are marginalized, not accepted fairly to the society. John Steinbeck shows the marginalized people’s lives in his novel, Of Mice and Men. In his novel, characters such as Lennie, George, Candy, Curley’s wife, Crooks, and even the ranch workers, are marginalized from the society. Ranch workers like George, Candy, and Lennie have nowhere to go, and they do not have anybody to care for them. Especially for Lennie, he is mentally challenged, too. Crooks, being the colored man, suffers from discrimination. Curley’s wife is constantly surrounded with loneliness. In Of Mice and Men, marginalized people who are neglected from the society, create a society of their own; they share their dreams and help each other out although they are all different from each other.

A life in the city of Seguin, Texas was not as easy as Cleofilas, the protagonist of the story thought it would be. The author, Cisneros describes the life women went through as a Latino wife through Cleofilas. Luckily, Cisneros is a Mexican-American herself and had provided the opportunity to see what life is like from two window of the different cultures. Also, it allowed her to write the story from a woman’s point of view, painting a vision of the types of problems many women went through as a Latino housewife. This allows readers to analyze the characters and events using a feminist critical view. In the short story “Women Hollering Creek” Sandra Cineros portrays the theme of expectation versus reality not only through cleofilas’s thoughts but also through her marriage and television in order to display how the hardship of women in a patriarchal society can destroy a woman’s life.

Bethsabel Chavez is a 26-year-old woman, who has gone by the name of Beth since she was in third grade. Beth was born in Los Angeles, California and raised in Springfield, Missouri. Beth’s childhood was mostly spent traveling across the States. Beth is the second to last child out of a family of five children. Beth’s family has always been in business, which has greatly influenced her. After her father’s construction business closed in the year 2002. Her parents decided to move to Northern California. Right after graduating high school, Beth decided to work full time as a Dinning Manager at a retirement community. Beth’s plan was to work her way up in the company. Which she did achieve, after six years of hard work. Beth was promoted to Social

It is known that unlike the urban areas, residents of rural areas report a higher satisfaction. This is because of the place centric values that Miss Daisy was able to obtain. The close geographic proximity of family and friends made Miss Daisy’s life much easier. For example, her son lived really close from her home and would visit often to check up on her. Another example is that Hoke was able to drive through a storm to bring Miss Daisy some coffee and some company. Miss Daisy had a high involvement in local activities such as going to the Jewish service, playing Mahjong with friends or even going to hear Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. give a speech. These availabilities gave her a community satisfaction as well as personal life satisfaction.

With the increase of Mexican immigrants present around Topanga Canyon, the residents of the suburban gated community, Arroyo Blanco, begin to feel as though their suburban space and spatial identities are being threatened. In an effort to combat that threat, the residents of Arroyo Blanco redefine their space and build a wall around their community. Through Arroyo Blanco's residents' Delaney and Kyra Mossbacher's experiences with Cándido Rincón, José Navidad, and the coyotes surrounding the Arroyo Blanco community of Topanga Canyon, Boyle conveys the futility of erecting walls as a way to preserve suburban space and suburban spatial identities in a post-suburban environment like Los Angeles.

The story is about bat and bush rat. The bush rat liked the soup of the bat so he asked about trick from bat. The bat told the trick is boil myself in the hot water. After that, bush rat tried and he suddenly died. The bush rat's wife was very angry,she charged to the king about the bat. The king's sent army to catch the bat.So,the bat hid day time and flies away at

Rats are various medium sized rodents. "True rats" are members of the genus Rattus, the most important of which to humans are the black rat, Rattus rattus, and the brown rat, R. norvegicus. Many members of other rodent genera and families are also called rats and share many characteristics with true rats. A rat has an average life span of 2-3 years[1].