Comparison Of Tortilla Sun And Confetti Girl

“Parents don't understand kids and kids don't understand parents.”-Mark Hoppus. Just because you are the child of a person, doesn’t mean you have to understand or agree with everything they do. You might have different values, points of view, or even hobbies from them. These small differences are usually rather contradictory to one another and can cause a slight tension between adult and youngin. This statement is in fact proven true in both Jennifer Cervantes’ nonfiction passage Tortilla Sun and in Diana López’s nonfiction passage Confetti Girl. In both of these stories, a strong tension is formed when each narrator, and their remaining parent, is faced with a large disagreement of interests. In Tortilla Sun, the narrator and their mother argue over the fact
In Confetti Girl, the narrator’s father tries to push his love of literature onto his daughter, but she has a very strong disinterest in anything he is trying to enthuse about to her and only shows interest in the things that she used to bond with her mother about. Comparison sentence here Undoubtedly, there is a strong tension created between the narrator (child) and parent due to the incapability of seeing eye to eye on the interest of a subject.
To begin, in the passage, Tortilla Sun, a massive tension is created due to the fact that there are no common interests between the parent and child. In the first passage Tortilla Sun, the narrator is informed that in order for her mother to finish her degree, she must