Salvador Late Or Early Summary

In a story like “Salvador Late or Early,” by Sandra Cisneros, imagery plays a key role in helping the readers see the world through the eyes of Salvador. For instance, Cisneros illustrates Salvador’s eyes by saying, “Salvador with eyes the color of caterpillar.” By using phrases containing figurative language, Cisneros allows the reader to interpret the story in their own different ways. In this case, Salvador’s eyes are being compared to a caterpillar’s body. By using imagery, readers are able to turn the story into a mental movie.

Abstract This paper focuses on a twelve-year old boy that goes by the name of Cristian Fernandez. Cristian was born into a very disoriented and complex family. Since birth he has to endure plenty of problems that many people older than him haven’t. He was born to Biannela Susana, who was twelve at the time, and Jose Antonio Fernandez, who was twenty years old.

Salvador Perez or Stephen Curry? Take your pick because they are both good athletes. However, they play different sports. The two athletes play in professional leagues. Salvador Perez plays baseball while Stephen Curry plays basketball.

In “Salvador Late or Early”, it is a third-person point of view. In the short-story, it provides a visual of Salvador as a scrawny, ugly boy. However, the narrator describes him as not what meets the eye; he is a tough young boy who is responsible and mature. This is a perfect example of why it is wrong to make assumptions of people. If the point of view was different, and one was knowledgeable of the fact that Salvador is worth more than what he seems, then all he would be is a boy with “eyes the color of a caterpillar” and “of the crooked hair and crooked teeth,” (Paragraph 1). The point of view from which the story is told evidently affects the thematic

What would it be like to be left alone when people are needed the most? Enrique’s Journey is a biography about a young boy who is left by his mother at a young age as she tries to provide a better life for her family in the U.S. One example of this is when Lourdes leaves Enrique at such a young age to provide a better life for him in another country where she can do better financially. Another example is when Enrique decides to leave Honduras even though he knows that Maria Isabel, his girlfriend, might be pregnant. A third important event is when Maria Isabel leaves Jasmine to be with Enrique so they can unite their family at a later time. In the biography Enrique's Journey, Sonia Nazario shows that sometimes in order to pursue one’s goals, major sacrifices must be made.

Poverty and stress take away the pleasures of childhood from the children unfortunate to be born into such families. In Salvador Late or Early, a short story by Sandra Cisneros, tells us about the stressful lifestyle of an underprivileged boy named Salvador. Salvador The author believes Salvador is an interesting character because he’s a boy with responsibilities of an adult, he is a solitary and misunderstood kid at school, and because throughout all the pain and suffering he’s been through, he remains unbroken.

Everyone has an expectation, but what does an expectation feel like when it does not become reached? The boy in Gary Soto’s Short story “The Jacket” experiences just that. The author wants the reader to know the overall theme is that one's expectations can get in they way of our happiness. In Gary Soto’s “The Jacket” the boy explains “My clothes have failed me.” “ I remember the coats I wore in fifth and sixth grades when you either danced like a champ or pressed yourself against a greasy wall, bitter as a penny toward happy couples.”

There are many people that go through life carrying burdens such as sadness, self-pity, despair, and neglect. Although many people consider this to be a horrible thing, they do not realize the advantage that these people have later on in life. Society has come to understand that those how experience a tough childhood, will live a life just like that. However, that is not the case. Neglect is the state or fact of being uncared for, and this leads to the destruction of oneself infancy and childhood. Nevertheless, being neglected can help you overcome most of life’s obstacles and will not only make you stronger, but keep your focus on not ever being that point in life where you once were. This neglect can be seen in the life of Deborah Lacks and

This memoir has made me realize how much easier my life is than children who live in poorer countries, with many siblings. It has made me realize how lucky I am, because I was never told to watch younger siblings and take care of them. I never had to fight over clothes because we didn’t have very many, and it was a once a year event to get used clothes from family.

I was born in a small town called Sesori in the country of El Salvador. El Salvador lays in the global south and it is extremely crime infested. I came to the United States of America when I was a small child; however, growing up in El Salvador allowed me to witness many of my neighbors and family members suffer from insufficient access to medicine. Knowing this has made me become a hardworking individual who acknowledges the opportunities and blessing that the United States offers its people. I wish to one day become a Neonatal Nurse Practitioner and activist for woman's protection all around the world through an international humanitarian non-governmental organization called Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors without Borders). I want to help individuals worldwide where the need is greatest. The world is in need of help with the

In the story of Salvador, Late or Early by Sandra Cisneros, it is better if read like a reader than reading like a writer. This is because it just makes sense to read it as a reader for the reasons stated in the text Read like a writer/read like a reader. Predict, if someone is reading like a reader then are thinking about how the text will be in the future to try to predict what is about to happen on the next page, therefore, it makes you reason with yourself and wonders about anything that is happening in the book or story. It also lets you think about what is implied in a book but is never told about or mentioned. Such as, in Salvador, Late or Early by Sandra Cisneros it states what about what he does in the morning for his

I came to the United States 7 years ago. I used to live in El Salvador. There, I was taught that having discipline in life, is the key to being successful. Hence, my parents were proud of me because I was always in the ten percent of my class. Thus, it was there where I took two courses that inspired me to become an architect. One of the courses was physics, where I had to build a mockup with an electrical circuit included as a group project assignment in my first year of high school. Although I had never had done anything like that before, I had fun building a model of a modern house. The other course that I took was technical design where I learned how to trace lines using drawing tools, such as a pair of compasses, T-square, and triangle.

On a random Thursday morning in the middle of October, I became an orphan. I have always been independent and mature from a young age, but all that changed on a crisp day in November when I learned what it means to grow up. Something typically marked by a Bat Mitzvah or the acquisition of a driver’s license was, for me, marked by the arrest of my single mother.

Who are you? What are you? Where are you from? Questions that people are always asking and wondering the answer to. Although I might look like I?m a different race I?m actually Salvadorian. I?m not a quarter, nor half but a full, one hundred percent Salvadorian. El Salvador is a tiny nation close to Guatemala located in Central America. A lot of people have told me I don?t look hispanic or think I?m Salvadorian. They get surprised when I start speaking spanish, see me eat traditional Salvadorian foods, or hear the music my family and I play at family reunions or special occasions.

suffers horribly so that the rest can be happy” (Brooks). The child’s pain and loneliness is a