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many ethnically and racially different countries throughout its history. As soon as the immigrants enter the land of the free, they tend to lose their cultural values and identity because of the pressure to fit into the American society. In her poem, Mora confronts the social burden put on migrants to adapt to the classic American image. She uses immigrant families to portray their desperation of having their children fit into the American culture. The quote “wrap their babies in the American flag”

performance on the 27th at 2:00 P.M. I attended the later time on the 27th. It was obvious the amount of work that went into this production. The work of the director- Ivan M Hardcastle, the musical director- Emily Peterson, The choreographer- Ally Mora, the actors, and the rest of the people involved surely showed. The show was a great success. It entertained the audience and was a delight to see. In the time that Mulan lived, estimated to be the Wei Dynasty women were not held to the same standards

In Pat Mora’s poem, “Teenagers”, the speaker is a parent or guardian that lacks communication with their child. In this poem, a parent is talking about her child and is wondering what life used to be like when they were a little kid. The poets overall perspective is about how teenagers change over time. The first stanza of the poem talks about how a child first gets of an age where they disappear in their room and never come out. A parent is talking about her child and thinking about how life used

The two poems I chose to analyze were “Curandera” by Pat Mora and “Loose Woman” by Sandra Cisneros. They were an interesting read and made sure to reread several times to make sure I got everything I could from them. Both poems are so unique from other poems I have read; they are also unique from each other yet share similarities as well. The first poem “Curandera” by Pat Mora talks about a woman who lives in her house by herself, presumed by the rest of the town, after her husband was killed from

The poem “Old Love” by Pat Mora is about overcoming hardships in life, and the to ability accept the sorrowful events that have occurred. The uncle in this poem is telling the speaker about how long he and his wife were married, their funny moments, and how they both knew that one day they would kiss goodbye, forever. This poem shows you how hard it is to accept that you have lost someone so dear and important to you. Sorrow and happiness that is the mood of this poem. The reader senses sorrow

The collection of poems named Dizzy In Your Eyes:Poems About Love by Pat Mora contains five poems On Guard, Please, Spanish, Broken Home, and Questions. The collection has multiple stages of love including self love, teenage love, love of parents, and heartbreak after a divorce (from the children’s p.o.v). The structure of these stages seems to be done to represent a cycle of love. Whether the poems are reflecting Mora’s personal feelings we as the readers don’t know, but we know the narrator shows

and primos ( aunt’s, uncle’s, and couisins. I was the one that had a chance, first generation. My parents describe it as an emotional experience. I was my Father’s first child and my moms only girl. It was in that room where history was made for the Mora Hernandez Morales Martinez family. The hardest part is that none of my grandmothers were there to see me growing up, they were at “home” The first time I set foot in Mexico was when I was four years old, with my uncle and cousins. We had gone to

Figurative language can be used in many different ways such as to compare things with certain words or to compare things in so many words. It can be used to show something’s meaning or to even give things life. In the poem “Immigrants”, Pat Mora used many different types of figurative language. For example, in this line from the poem “Wrap their babies in the American flag“(Line 1), she used symbolism. She represented the baby’s blanket with the American flag. She also uses allegory throughout

“Background Difficulties” In “Illegal Alien” Pat Mora writes about the problem of the difficulty people have communicating when they are of different backgrounds. For years now people have been judged by their skin color, their race, or where the originally come from. In “Illegal Alien” Pat Mora gives us a good example of this as the character in her poem goes through this trial of being from both the Mexican and the American cultures. Pat Mora indicates her difficulties that she is going through

Where you from? By Gina Valdez, Legal alien, Elena by Pat Mora, and Here by Sandra Maria Esteves are poems that have a similar meaning. This poems are connected by the same problem, can be cultural or language problems that the majority of the immigrants suffer. Every single poem have a different story and characters, but with the same problem. Those poems talked about the borders that the majority of the immigrants have, some of them do not feel identify with their new culture, however, others poems