The Flightless Goose Called Gilbert

Ten year after her second marriage happiness surprised Julia, she knew the man who  became her third husband. The true companero for the women she had become.    The “first Muse” by Julia Alvarez show us that we have to overcome our obstacle in  order to get successful. Julia had to deal with a dictatorship and bullying at her school but that  didn’t stop

Although she is not able to be a full-time activist because she has to take care of Carlos, she is able to explore “Colonia La Joya” (122). The horrific conditions of La Joya, a nearby city, does not come to Elena’s attention until she witnesses a “funeral” (121) of a “newborn child”. The multiple funerals of children that Elena had witnessed during her “captivity”, sparked a curiosity in Elena. Through her house “servant” (116), Marisol, Elena learned that the multiple funerals where being caused by the sudden “diarrhea” (118) that the babies would get. Her sudden interest in La Joya was not enlightened until she witnessed a man carrying an unpainted “pine box” (121). Instead of being filled with grief, the man possessed a “proud man Mayan stare” that “penetrated” into Elena’s soul. The eye contact that occurred between the man and Elena sparked the revolutionary side of Elena that was fueled by love. The “grief” filled look that Elena received showed herself in the man’s perspective, she was a “bourgeois housewife” (122) who was “clean” and would be delivering her son in an “antiseptic hospital.” The perspective of the man displays the intersection of class; Elena is able to deliver her son in a hospital that has the proper resources while children in La Joya are forced to live off of contaminated resources. Elena understanding this message promises herself that after her son was born

The fairy tale begins with an older woman who was named Mary Wiggins having three eggs from a goose. Two of the geese didn’t end up surviving but one did. The goose didn’t look as she wanted it to and figured she might as well kill it. But her husband told her, “kill nothing that is born in your house, woman alive. It’s against the law of God”(pg.119). The woman agreed and replied with “what comes into the world is sent by God. Praised be he”(pg.119). The goose still had a yellow coloring and wasn’t joining in the

The book “The Captain’s Verses” by Pablo Neruda, there are many love poems. Poems that express different ways of loving someone. I decided to pick Neruda's body of work because of how smooth and elegant his poems sound. They express so much passion towards a person and also send a message. When reading his poems I would be able to understand the emotion the poem carried. This is the first thing that caught my attention from his poems. The emotions each and every one of them carried.

Growing up as a child could be looked at as a bumpy road. Average kid has everything they need; food, shelter, and of course water. Whether it is the nicest of places, or the greatest neighborhood, with the greatest food, now that’s a different story. Here, The House on Mango Street takes short stories called vignettes, all of which are told from the perspective of a thirteen-year old girl named Esperanza. As the story goes on, I notice how naïve Esperanza is. She definitely does not understand the concepts going on around her. But as she gets older, I believe she will realize that she wants better for herself, and whatever her future may bring.

Maria is fifteen years old. Her mother reports that Maria has been performing poorly in school and has withdrawn from her family. This began after her transition to secondary school. Her performance further deteriorated when she began second year. Maria stopped participating in a number of her occupations including hockey, playing the piano, the girl guides, shopping with friends and going to the cinema. She now prefers to stay on the computer of listening to music.

Children’s literature author Esme Raji Codell has written a novel for kids that can be enjoyed by all age groups. Codell’s book Sahara Special is about a young girl (fifth grader) who is going through troubling times. Her parents have gone through a divorce and this event has greatly affected Sahara, so much so that the school placed her in special education resource classes. Until the recent past, books with special education characters were unusual. According to Russell, “these individuals were once virtually ignored in children’s books…but society is now more sensitive to the needs of these individuals” (70-71). Esme does a good job of meeting the criteria for culturally diverse children’s books.

María and her family must explore what their new relationship with one another is when it is revealed she is pregnant with Pepe’s child. With no way to contact him or an assurance they will ever meet again, she navigates breaking the news to each family member and finally, to her husband-to-be. Enthralled, he cancels the wedding and the family must then move away from the land he owns. The family must stick together as María’s due date arrives closer. Their tight support system is tested when a mix-up at the hospital proves to have another side to the story. Like La Teta Asustada, this film’s lead must find inner strength to withstand the outside and inner obstacles that come her way.

Throughout the interactive oral, we discussed Neruda’s beliefs and how they influenced his poetry. Moreover, we discussed how these things not only influenced his writing style, but also his life.

“ You’re not going to escape me this time you little brat.” The Nahuala whispered into the room of San Juan. San Juan heard the whisper in the distance and stirred in his bed. “Sleep child.” The Nahuala imitated San Juan mom’s voice Ana Maria. “¿Eres tu Mama?” “Si mijo” The Nahuala said nervously because she knew that San Juan was the kid who had killed one of her good friends la Llorona she would go around taking children's’ souls in search of her children.

Connection - I chose to do this project because I wanted to utilize my writing skills in a creative way. At first I was going to write poems for my favorite stories, but I felt that these poems would not do the stories justice, and that writing an analysis for each of my poems would be hard. I chose to write letters between two characters from one of my favorite stories, “Wicked Girl”. However, I put a twist by making them letters that a character could never send due to regret and shame. I found this story very interesting because it analyzes the feelings of a little girl who has fallen in a lustful love, and follows it by seeing through a man left empty by their encounter. The book itself, written by Isabel Allende, relates to Chilean culture

Once upon time there was four kids in the woods. Those kids where in journey to find a treasure chest. The treasure chest in had a lot of good treasure. But before they get there the have trek before getting to the indusrtiou. So the rest of the kids was very infuriate at him. But they had to estimate the miles that they had to hike which was a hundred miles. So they had to bring food,water and a sleeping bag. So they can get to the hundred miles. But on of them brought irrelevant. So everyone was laughing at him because he bring a water gun with him. The precise items they can bring so it wouldn't be too heavy. after they where done packing they start there journey to the treasure chest. So they walk and walk then they saw that it was getting dark. So they took out there sleeping bag and sleeping bag a sleep.

There was a frequent reference to “a poet” whose work was widely respected in this novel. The Count de Satigny (who was Esteban Trueba’s ‘suitable’ choice of a husband for Blanca) referred to the work of the poet as “the best poetry ever written, and nothing could compare to it”. When Jaime and Nicholas became adults, the poet became more widely accepted as Clara had formerly predicted the first time she heard him recite in his ‘telluric voice’ in one of her literary soireés. It was evident that the poet lived and wrote about the right of the citizens to live their lives the way they wanted to, making their own decisions and expressing their own opinions without being controlled. For this reason, the funeral of such a poet became “the symbolic burial of freedom”.

The tale of “The Ugly Duckling” has been told for many generations. It is the story of a little swan that is mistakenly hatched in a duck’s nest and because of his strange and different appearance he is teased and ridiculed. Even his mother can’t understand how this “ugly duckling” could be one of her own. The ugly duckling goes through many hardships and a long, lonely winter. Then upon seeing his reflection in the pond he realizes that he has become a beautiful swan and happily swims off, joining a group of nearby swans.

The age of an individual has an immense impact on how one feels about their desires, desires that make us who we are yet still promote strife. In the short story “Nemecia,” by Kristin Valdez Quade, a superb writer who is renown for her work in short-stories, one can draw the conclusion that as the protagonist, Maria, comes of age, her order of priorities develop and intensify based off of her circumstances. As the story progresses we see how the most intimate desires of a little girl develop with her until she