Valellesa Cruz Quotes

In the Time of the Butterflies, a novel by Julia Alvarez, takes place in the Dominican Republic during the time of the Trujillo regime. The main characters are four sisters, Minerva, Patria, María Teresa, and Dedé, who fight against Trujillo’s oppression. All of them except for Dedé get killed in the end by Trujillo. A great amount of violence occurs over the course of the novel.

In Nancy Farmer’s The House of the Scorpion, Matteo Alacran, a clone, discovers that everybody is different. To start with, Matt is El Patron’s clone. El Patron is 143 years old. In this book, a piece of land between Mexico and the United States is called Dreamland or Opium, and is owned by El Patron, and the Alacran family.

In the book, Champion, the author Marie Lu uses symbolism, dialogue and inner thinking. In this book, June works for the government and Day used to be a criminal to survive. The people in the country love Day so the government hires him to give hope to people who have lost it since the war between the Republic and the Colonies isn’t going so well for them. Meanwhile, Day and June start to fall in love with each other, but Day is still grieving for his family that has died because of June.

As Tim Burton, a famous director and producer once said, ¨one person's craziness is another person's reality¨ This directly applies to the Dominican Republic during the time of Rafael Trujillo's rule. Minerva Mirabal, is a woman who risks her life rebelling against her powerful dictator and his regime. Her ultimate goal is freedom and her rights. However, Minerva has not always shown disdain and hate towards Trujillo. Minerva's views on Trujillo and the regime change throughout the book. When Minerva is a young girl, she thinks of trujillo as a god like figure. After Sinita tells her about Trujillo's secret, Minerva's views of him and his regime change tremendously. Minerva turns against Trujillo and the regime, and has joined the rebellion.

The main character of the book, Esperanza Rising, is a young girl named Esperanza. The story begins in Aguascalientes, Mexico on a beautiful ranch owned by Esperanza’s father. However, Esperanza and her family are forced to immigrate to America. Throughout the journey, Esperanza reveals several of her personality traits. All of these traits can be represented by symbols.

Melinda Sordino, the character in the novel Speak, written by Laurie Halse Anderson. She is an outcast, coward, and a negative person. Melinda Sordino is an outcast. '' Or I could crawl behind the trash can. Or maybe I could dump my lunch straight into the trash and keep moving right on out the door '' (Anderson 8). This quotation clearly demonstrates that Melinda is an outcast. She cannot even think a person she could sit. On the first day, Melinda gets into the auditorium and everyone divides into their clans. She used to be a part of the Plain Janes but now she labelled herself an outcast, she is clanless. Melinda does not see the point in finding her ex-friends. She knows it is not going to work. The only student talks to her as a friend is Heather, new to here, but she

The odds are stacked upon Luis Rodriguez, an upcoming sixteen year old that has found himself in the world of gangs. Luis is a human, and it is expected that he would make many mistakes in his life, however when given choices, he always seems to choose the wrong one and never learns from his mistakes. The theme of Luis Rodriguez’s autobiography, “Always Running,” is that many people feel like they are alone in the world, and that the world is always against them, but there will always be people that will stand in your corner and help them achieve what they were meant for. He proves this by including examples from his childhood and the mistakes he has made and the supports he has had.

I’m not going to pretend I know what it’s like to grow up under racial prejudice. I’m not going to pretend I understand any of the struggles people of a different race or ethnicity go through. I’m a white Christian female. I have not gone through the same things that people like Jose has gone through, but he uses many different examples to help connect with people from all walks of life, such as homosexuals, immigrants, Americans, and people with anxiety. Jose Vargas impacts a larger audience by sharing the personal details of his unconventional lifestyle and the help he received as a homosexual undocumented immigrant with anxiety.

If you ever come to the Twin Cities, like most sheep you're going to want to go to the Mall of America. This is fine and I understand this because 1) you've been programmed to and 2) there isn't much else to see in the Twin Cities. Oh yes, I'm sure they'll tell you to see either a Twins or Vikings game. Yes, I'm sure the locals will insist you check out our incredibly mediocre downtowns. And the truly delusional Twin Citians will perhaps fool you into going to the worthless and talentless Walker Art "Museum." But all in all the Twin Cities suck and I cannot recommend you come here for much of anything.

Marie Lu’s novel, Legend, is focused on two main characters, Day (Daniel Atlan Wing) and June Iparis. Day is a criminal on the run for stealing from the Republic while June, on the other hand, is an elite student at Drake University at the age of fifteen and the Republic’s most prized prodigy. Day watches his family from afar because they have been led to believe that he is dead, he one day sees that his family has a deadly plague. This leads Day to believe that he has to go steal plague medicine from the hospital. June and her older brother, Metias, are orphans, since Metias is a captain in the government, this always leaves June at home alone or at school acting out. On the night that Day decides to steal the medicine, Metias is on duty and

In Marie Lu’s Legend, Day shows his true character when he faces tough obstacles and rigorous tasks throughout the novel. For example, Day’s valor/bravery shows when Day rushes into the hospital to find the cure for his family. This shows that without a care for his own well-being he is looking for what's best for the ones he cares about. This also shows that even though he knew the consequences he still decided to look for the greater good.

The society and setting are visible in this quote. The authoritarianism of the government it is visible in the way the Mirabal family and other citizens are oppressed to speak openly about the regime. An example of personification in which Patria expresses the beginning of her internal conflict and foreshadows doubt in her faithfulness and in her decision to not become a nun.

Even if he has good intentions sometimes his choices are only thought for himself, and he doesn't think about the consequences, and how it affects other people. For example, he marries Rosaura Tita sister to stay close to Tita, “ … When you’re told there’s no way to marry the woman you love and the only hope of being near her is to marry her sister wouldn’t you do the same?” (pg.15) This quote conveys how Pedro makes choices that exclusively helps himself and he usually doesn’t think of the consequences of his action and how marrying Rosaura makes Tita feel . He marries Rosaura with good intention to be closer to Tita, but he doesn’t think od of those side-effects. He does not imagine how Tita would feel about that choice and how it would devastate her. He cares so much about being near Tita that he doesn’t think how he’s doing it and how his decisions are affecting her relationship with the people she loves . Another moment when he didn’t care about anyone’s feelings but himself was when he got burned, His reaction to getting burned was,“Tita don’t go. Don’t leave me.” Tita took Pedro’s hand again. For a moment Rosaura and Tita looked at each other challengingly. Then Rosaura understood that there was nothing left for her to of here, and she went back to her room and locked the door behind her. She didn’t come out for a week.” (pg.201) This quote demonstrates when Pedro calls out for Tita instead of his wife Rosaura to help him makes her feel. Rosaura see’s how meaningless she is to him and that he loves Tita more than he loves her. She then feels lonely and hurt, and locks herself in a room and doesn’t come out for a week because of her frustration. If Pedro would have let Rosaura help him as well as Tita would have never happened and nobody would have been hurt. Pedro has a love for Tita, but sometimes he doesn’t show it the right way or he just hurts people

When we began to read this novel, just from the first chapter it was an attention grabbing book. It was a like a novela except in a book. Now this book has plenty of characters in it, some who are really hateful and others who wouldn't hurt a fly, but I am going to be focusing on 3 main characters which are Pedro, Tita and John and their roles in this novel. I believe Pedro is a coward. In the beginning of the book it made him seem like if he was prince charming coming to the rescue to save tita from the hell she was living, but it took a complete wrong direction.

HSOC 010 Reading Guide Title (Year): A Luta Continua (2014) Director: Raul de la Fuente Main Argument (1-2 Sentences): Struggles continues in the process of establishing stable and reliable health care systems in Moxambique due to the inequality and poor sytems in the country that resulted from colonoziation.