Ramona and Her Father

Esmeralda Santiago chronicles her beautiful life growing up in Puerto Rico and her early life in New York in When I Was Puerto Rican. Throughout her book she shares a number of these experiences which play significant roles in shaping her as an individual. She describes many of her trials and tribulations from the earliest part of her youth through to her life as a young adult. As her story progresses we watch Negi physically and emotionally grow into the woman she becomes. The transitions in Esmeralda's

Ramona, is a novel that follows a half Native American and half Scottish orphan named Ramona. The nova is mainly a love story between Ramona and a Native American man from Luiseño tribe called Alessandro. They both fall in love, get married and have kids. Throughout the novel Ramona gets exposed to several different Native American groups, such as the Luiseño Cahuilla, Diegueño, and Cupeño. The novel gives us insight at the time of each group through Jackson. Jackson portrays the Luiseño tribe throughout

(the father), who after the sudden loss his wife brings on board the help of his brother-in-law and friend to raise three young girls. In Fuller House, the original female child actors, Dj, Kimmy and Stephanie continue the show living as three single women in the same San Francisco home all together raising Dj’s set of three boys who have just lost their firefighter father in a bad fire. Barring the exact same plot of the show and its bad jokes, Fuller House adds Kimmy’s tween daughter Ramona as a

said “my aunt…she was the one that took care of me…my uncle and my husband.” Ramona recalls her mother spent extensive hours away from home, working on behalf of the family. I didn’t live with my parents. I lived with my uncle…and my aunt, my mom’s sister. They were the ones that gave me everything that they could, education, everything. I did miss my parents…[my uncle] has been really wonderful to me. To have him as a father because he always talked to me. He saw me as his daughter in front of his

1) How was your childhood? My childhood was very hard. At the age of 17, I was an orphan. My mother was a writer and my father was a minister, author and professor of Latin, Greek and philosophy. My mother died and then, three years later, my father died. I went to live with my aunt. My brothers died and I was heartbroken. 2) You were young when you married your first husband. What was life like at that point? I was married at age 22 to was a United States Captain. His name was Captain Edward Bissel

detachment between Eloise and her own life, as well as her relationships with her husband and daughter. Eloise and her college roommate, Mary Jane are introduced to the reader at

has a hard time fitting back into a routine of normalcy. His partner, Muriel, is more interested in the material things that surround her than she is with her lover. When Seymour cannot find the partnership that he needs with Muriel, he is forced to switch to an alternate source of companionship. He meets a young girl named Sybil on the beach, and quickly bonds with her.

Ramona Ausubel’s “Atria” tells the story of a teenage girl, Hazel Whiting, and the difficulties she faces. The death of her masked father left Hazel’s mother and her three older sisters secretly expecting Hazel to live up to her father. As they saw the death of a father and a husband, in the meantime is the birth of Hazel. Once the teenage years of Hazel arrived, her mother by this point is over the phase of once again raising a teenager. She specifically suggests to Hazel, “ Couldn’t you just

raised horses and cattle. My father, Leland, blames his grandfather’s generation for whittling away the family’s money. Even with the loss of prestige of owning such an abundance of land, the family continued to farm. I suppose it is all they knew. They became good, working class farmers and small business owners, working on their modest-sized farms. But they did own the land which separates them from the

in her life. Esperanza finds herself dealing with a lost, but not just any lost her father’s. She has trouble starting over in a country and having a low status. And just when things seem to be stable Esperanza’s mother Ramona get ill and with no other option, Esperanza is left to stay strong. First, on the night of Esperanza’s 13th birthday, Sixto Ortega, Esperanza’s father was killed. “Mama, the neighbors warned him just last night about bandits.” (Ryan,11) Esperanza was worried because her father