Confetti Girl

Numerous kids have had troubles with connecting to their parent, even to this day. This is expressed in various ways, like in movies or films, the average television shows, and in just normal books. Adding on to how children and parents sometimes have tension between themselves, the same concept is applied to the short stories, Confetti Girl and Tortilla Sun. In both of these short stories, the parent and child are trying to connect, but are unable to do so, resulting in the child feeling unappreciated. In Confetti Girl, the narrator feels forgotten and not cared about by her father, resentment building in the tension. Whereas in the story Tortilla Sun, the narrator Izzy is Both children from both stories feel neglected by their one and only
The narrator and her mother aren’t very close and Izzy wanted to spend the summer at home nevertheless, her mother changes her response to her daughter. “‘It’s strange actually. I wasn’t expecting it, but then at the last minute the funding came through.’ She folded her arms across her waist. ‘I’m going to Costa Rica to finish my research.’” (9) The narrator's mother is going to finish her studies and her daughter just unpacked, ready to spend the rest of her summer home alone. In addition to this, the narrator feels excluded in her mother's decisions. Conclusively, the narrator feels disregarded, assuming that her mother prefers her studies over her daughter's interests. Plenty of parents and kids do have struggles trying to connect to one another. The two short stories, Confetti Girl and Tortilla Sun, are about how two narrators feel neglected by their parent to demonstrate this concept. In Confetti Girl, the father doesn’t notice how his daughter, the narrator, is bitter about his encouragement for her to be absorbed in his interests. Whereas, in Tortilla Sun, the mother of the narrator doesn’t take in her daughter's request in staying home alone for the summer to try and make new