The Red Umbrella

The Red Umbrella by Christina Diaz Gonzalez and A 'Band-Aid' for 800 Children by Eli Sastow

The book The red Umbrella, written by Christina Diaz Gonzalez, is set during the Cuban Revolution mostly in two towns, Puerto Mijares and Grand Island Nebraska. The author of this book made a careful choice in where the setting will take place because it has great importance in the meaning of this book (GOGB NEW #2). In this story you will read about a family that faced many hardships during the revolution. The family had to make some very hard and life-changing decisions. The family sent their children away in hopes that they can have a better life. Frankie and Lucy, the two children, had to lean a whole new language and take care of each other because their parents are not in this new country that they had traveled to. Frankie and Lucy were

Have you ever meet a refuge or know someone who escaped their country because of war? When refugees flee their home they need to stay in refugee camps where they get food and shelter but they can't stay there for ever. Refugees go thru many things when they come to America, one thing is they don't know english and they struggle to communicate. Another thing is that the kids might get bullied because they come from another place or of there religion. Ha life is similar to the universal:Refugees life because she was a refugee and she got bullied in school because where she came from. Ha’s life and the universal:Refugees life have been affected wich that make there life inside out.

The focus of this story is laid upon the child who is kept in the damp room without windows in a basement. He is filthy and devoid of any sunlight in the room being removed from any social contact. On the contrary, some of the citizens come and peer at the child to see who brings them a sort of joy and comfort in their lives. “Some of them understand why, and some do not, but they all understand that their happiness, the beauty of their city, the tenderness of their friendships, the health of their children...depend wholly on this child’s abominable misery” (Guin 3). While adults accept the situation with the child, little children come feeling rage and shock as well as considering how to help the imprisoned. At this stage, they feel despair and compassion to him; however, they can not exchange their beautiful life for the sake of one child.

​The novel The Burgess Boys by Elizabeth Strout and the short story Wildwood by Junot Diaz are two stories that convey specific examples of how families can be affected through hardships. While one is long and one is very short, there are many similarities between these two stories. The underlying theme in these two stories is that every action has repercussions, some good and some bad. These repercussions end up transforming the characters in both of these stories into different people by the end. As the main character Lola from Wildwood states, “It’s never the changes we want that change everything.” (439).

In the year 1980 at least over three million refugees has been accepted in the United States. In "Jews' Tale Plays Out Again, as Syrian Refugees Find Resistance to U.S. Entry." and "Fresno Family Represents the Plight of Syrian Refugees." they both have many common details about refugees and coming to a new land. They give so much description about what is it like being an immigrant. Yet they also have some many various different details too. In the end, they have many shared similarities and differences in both articles.

The Red Umbrella by Christina Diaz Gonzalez and “A Band-Aid for 800 Children,” by Eli Sastow both have the similar theme that sometimes you have to take risks in order to better your life. Both authors portray the same theme by using the same and different techniques to teach readers to take risks in life.

The Red Umbrella by Christina Diaz-Gonzalez and the photograph Migration by Jose Hernandez-Claire share the same subject, migration. The author and the artist use a lot of the same techniques to expose the subject of migration, but they also use many different techniques. They also express the way they feel about the results of migration. There are several differences between the excerpt and the photo, but these are some similarities that can be found between the techniques used. One technique that can be found in the picture and the text is the topic, the topic shared is migration…

In addition to the two conflicts the one who supports the U.S in this story is the young latino girl, and the one who despises the U.S is the older grandma. Moreover the grandma sees the U.S as a barbaric country where most of her family lives. On the other hand the granddaughter sees the U.S as more than that, and is in constant disagreement with her grandma's traditions. Lastly the conflicts are fighting of traditions and new ideas, because the grandma practices old traditions, and believes that the U.S is a barbaric state the younger girl feels resentment toward this and not only not follow their grandparents traditions but enjoy and like the

Furthermore, the main focus on my article is how “Angel” families are wanting to see Mayor Schaff get prosecuted for her actions. These "Angel" families experienced a tragic death in their family due to an illegal immigrant and now they are rampaging against their mayor's decision to thwart the ICE. Adam Shaw, the author of the editorial, lists several cases of an "Angel" family and clearly agree withs the families by trying to make the reader sympathize with him and the families. He also acknowledges that their voices are being ignored and that politicians push legislation to brings more deaths to the Americans is to further his way to lure a reader to join their

There is a poem and a story about what happened. The have many similarities and differences here’s a few of those similarities and differences. The similarities are that they’re both about the holocaust the second similarity is that someone is talking about their life in the ghetto and how life was hard there. Some differences they have are that one is a poem and the other is a documentary. Another difference is that the documentary is longer

The Red Umbrella by Christina Diaz Gonzalez and the Migration Photograph by José Hernández-Claire will be compared based on certain writing techniques they used in their texts. The two texts have a common subject between them, which is, immigration. Although they both talk about emigrating, they both talk about different point of views of immigrating. The two texts have many similarities between them, but they are different in many ways as well.

“A Band-Aid for 800 Children” by Eli Sastow and The Red Umbrella by Christina Diaz Gonzalez both show the topic of family separation. The authors of these two texts use similar and use different techniques to portray the topic family separation and how it can bring seriousness and anxiety to people. The authors use similar techniques to show the topic of family separation. The authors both showed a tone of seriousness and anxiety in their texts that portrayed family separation. The author of “A Band-Aid for 800 Children” showed the tone by showing how much Sandigo has to go through everyday because the children's parents were deported and had to leave their children behind.

From the novels “Under the Persimmon Tree” by Suzanne Fisher Staples, “Inside Out and Back Again” by Thanhha Lai and “A Long Walk to Water” by Linda Sue Park, the refugee child have to deal with traumatizing events occurring during their journey. First, Najmah is a teenager living in Kunduz, Afghanistan who had to flee to Peshawar, Pakistan to find her brother and father, who have been taken by the Taliban, Salva is an 11 year old boy who had to flee from his village in South Sudan who has set out to find his family and Ha, a ten year old girl who had to flee her home because the Communist will take over Saigon. Secondly, all of the refugees have to flee their homes because of their country being at war; the Taliban, the Sudanese Civil war

Did you know that thousands of families get separated each year because of deportation? In the story, “The Red Umbrella”, and the article, “A Band-Aid for 800 Children”, they have a similar theme that is portrayed in the story. The theme, “One might realize that at some point, family must stay in your heart, and not your life,” is shown through various techniques the author uses throughout the entire text. These two authors use similar and different techniques to develop the text. The theme relates to both texts because, in the story, it deals with how the children must leave the parents to go to the United States. In the article, it has to do with a woman, Sandigo, who helps children with parents that are deported. This is family separation,