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The poem "Sonrisas" by Pat Mora is about someone torn between two lifestyles. Mora uses contrasting diction between the two stanzas to show her feelings towards both rooms; Mora also uses sibilance to further portray the differing nature of those two rooms. Mora's diction and use of sibilance in the first stanza create a tense atmosphere in the room. In lines 6 to 8, the speaker says, "careful woman in crisp beige/suits, quick beige smiles/that seldom sneak into their eyes". Words like "quick", "seldom"

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One peso an hour was the wage that David Mora Catlett remembers receiving from his mother when he started working for her at the age of 12. As a result of working with his mother she instilled a good work ethic in him at an early age. “After my Father passed away in 2002, working with my mother became a full-time job, from being an apprentice, later I became her assistant and in the end her partner, because of our different experiences in life, my Mom always said that we learned from each other,”

help is seeked, Pat Mora knows that this a struggle for others that they face everyday. Challenges vary on size and can have a great or small impact on a person but at the end, the person can overcome the obstacle. In “Elena”, Mora demonstrates love will overcome every obstacle when family is present. Language is hard for others to learn and is a challenging to master. Mora creates an obstacle that the mother faces throughout the story by using repetition in the poem, “Elena”. Mora establishes just

“Sonrisas”, by Pat Mora, is a delicately written poem that offers a necessary perception of the two lives that almost every adult will live between. True to its postmodern roots, “Sonrisas” is a poem that simply seeks to describe and contrast the dull, formal, and sometimes lifeless experience of the working world with the more exciting, colorful, and warm home experience. This essay will explore the multiple ways in which Mora uses symbols, structure, juxtaposition, sensory images, and other figurative

“Sonrisas” is a poem written by Pat Mora, a poem which uses comparisons between different societies using various types of figurative language. This poem can be interpreted to be a comparison between the two worlds that the author seems stuck between. This poem uses various forms of figurative language in order to compare two aspects of the author's life. Mora was born on January 19, 1942, and she started her career as a poetry writer after her college education, she graduated in 1963 with a bachelor's

In the poem “Immigrants” by Pat Mora, the main speakers contemplate weather their children will be accepted as Americans. Although the parents are immigrants, they try their best to feed their children American culture. They talk in a deep English accent, and give them dolls or footballs before they can even walk. They also wrap them in American flags as they are put to asleep. Once they are sleeping, the parents worryingly talk in their native language. Mora’s “Immigrants” demonstrates to readers

Estella Ramble Ms.Gatlin English II DC-6th Period 24 September 2017 “Sonrisas” Bi-cultural Conflict The poem “Sonrisas”by Pat Mora is a known poem, about a bicultural woman who finds herself living in two separate worlds, she stands in the middle of a doorway because she can't seem to fit into either one of the worlds being a bicultural character. Pat Mora, the author, is a successful poet who was born in El Paso Texas, she grew up being the oldest of 4 children in a bicultural home. Pat was a former

Race informs the way one views other and the world. The poem “Legal Alien” written by Pat Mora illustrates “perhaps inferior, definitely different, viewed by mexicans as aliens,” ( 32) as well as “sliding back and forth between the fringes of both worlds by masking the discomfort”(32). The poem demonstrates how the aspect of race controls how the world is shown or contemplated. This may seem to encourage people but in reality race is controlled by one person and travels towards many others. No person

“La Migra” by Pat Mora is a poem that leads to the different points of view of two opposite personnels. This poem was that it had a very simple, common setting and situation. “And you have been spotted by the sun… I know this desert, where to rest,where to drink. (Mora 1191). This set of lines tells me that the poem took place somewhere near the border where typically people try to cross the border. When crossing the border, there are some lakes or some deserts, it all depends on which part you cross