This is where we talk about fear and the negative side, Papi was raised in a harsh house,
This is where we talk about fear and the negative side, Papi was raised in a harsh house,
Aura Gomez is a 35-year-old married Mexican-American female with three daughters. She was referred by Child Welfare Services after she delivered a pre-mature baby girl with methamphetamine in her system. Aura’s three daughters, 15 year old, 12 year old, and one month old have been removed from her care by Child Welfare Services. Aura is the middle of three siblings; she has an older and a younger sister, and both of her parents are decease. Her father died when she was 5 years old, and her mother died when she was 21 years old. She was born in Tijuana, Mexico, but was raised in San Diego since the age of five. Aura was asked to move out of her home by Child Welfare Services and is currently staying with her younger sister.…
What do Rey’s comments and thoughts tells you about what he wants to do? What does…
Whereas his father was a source of punishment, his mother Consuelo Loera served as his fountain of emotional support. She still lives in La Tuna and is said to be the only person in the world who can change her son’s mind on anything.…
When she became a fieldworker, Esperanza had to go to a Mexican fieldworker farm in California to work. Her whole family came except for her grandmother, Abuelita because she broke her ankle in the fire. Esperanza was heartbroken because she had never been separated so far from a Abuelita. At the farm Esperanza met a girl, who was very rude to her, named Marta who convinced other Mexicans to strike for better living arrangements. Mama became sick with Valley Fever after a dust storm and later came down with Pneumonia when she was admitted into the hospital.This scared Esperanza because she could have gotten her fired. After the moment her mother got sick, Esperanza decided that she need to be the money maker in the house so she could pay for Mama’s doctors and medicine. Esperanza experience so many feelings in such a short amount of time, that it was clear to her that she needed to become the la patrona-head of the…
Abraham, Selena’s father, worked hard to make a living for his family. He was the considered the head of the household and the decision maker for the family. The mother was the nurturer who provided for the family by maintaining the house and cooking meals. The children were to go to school and listen to their parent’s and follow the rules, or they would be disciplined. When it came to the band, the father was in charge of everyone and setting up the performances. He was the primary contact for anything to do with the band, he made all the decisions. Selena would act out and question her father sometimes, the mother would step-in and try to get Abraham to see where she was coming from. He was receptive to his wife and listened to what she had to say. Selena could try and communicate with her father when she was younger, and he would not listen. As she got older and began to rebel, he started to see her point of view and that she was an adult and could make her own decisions. Eventually, Abraham and Selena were on the same page and their communication improved. This helped the family dynamic and for them to grow closer together, and for the band to succeed. Abraham took pride in his daughter’s talent and hard work and valued her opinion and input. He was very proud of her accomplishments. The family was absolutely devastated when Selena was murdered by…
To start things off, Mama Elena had a rough love life. This caused her to make many harsh decisions things that made her disliked throughout the De la Garza family. First off, she caused Tita to have a lot of pain and distress as a young child due to her secret affair dying to an unknown killer and her legal husband dying of a heart attack. This event later caused her breast milk to dry up and this is when the ruthlessness started to show up in her personality. Tita was then put under Nacha's care. Actions like these caused people in the family to question the decisions she made but no one would challenge them due to the fact that she was the head if the family. "Jose was the love of her life. She [is not] allowed to marry him because he [has] Negro blood in his veins." (137)…
In When I Was Puerto Rican, sometimes responsibility isn’t chosen but given. The reason for this is because Esmeralda’s mother has been giving Esmeralda, as the oldest, pressure in responsibilities and the mindset of maturity too early on. She has grown accustomed to responsibilities but yet it has been too much for her to handle on her own as stated on page 181 “When I came home, I had wrapped myself in responsibilities mom was about to drop on me. It felt heavy, too big for me.”…
In the film there are scenes where Carmen, Ana’s mother treats her very harsh and hinders her from attending college. Carmen exaggerates based on her actions like when she did not say goodbye to Ana when she was leaving for college. This can be interpreted by thinking that it is hard fro parents to let their children go but its not always true. In the film the fact that the mom does not let her go might just be because Ana and her mother are not very close and do not have that mother daughter love and bond and the financial situation they are in. The fact that Ana did not mind that her college was on the other side of the nation, signifies that she is not very close to her family because she is willing to go far and does not hesitate by the fact that she will be away from home and her…
3. Selena 's Spanish is seen as a potential problem for her in Mexico by her father. Has anyone else ever felt their Spanish was being judged, by anyone anywhere? Why do you think Selena was able to overcome this problem in Mexico? Why was she so popular?…
The oldest sister, Patria, came across many complications throughout her life but she did not have to go through it alone. Patria was the oldest Mirabal sister of the four girls. She was the sister who wanted to go away and become a nun; however her Papa disagreed upon the matter “Patria as a nun would be a waste of a pretty girl” (Alvarez 11). Once Patria was sent away to school she realized being the religious one of the Mirabal family was indeed what she wanted, even if she had to disappoint someone of her family. It takes a strong willed person to be able to stand up against her family and go after what she believes in, no matter if anyone important to her has different ideas upon the matter. Once Patria realized that the school was no longer suited for her needs, she then returned home to help Papa out with the farm. Patria later married the love of her life, and they had two kids; Noris and Nelson. During this time period it was a blessing from God to be blessed with the presence of another life. Patria was so excited, until she discovered something was wrong with her third child, “And I realized I was giving birth to something that was dead” (52). No mother can ever imagine losing a child. In order to get over the incident and move on with one’s life one has to be able to believe in herself and…
Mama Elena and Tita’s problem is Mama Elena’s strict and harsh punishments. Mama Elena hit Tita in the face with a wooden spoon. Tita doesn’t like Mama Elena. “Unquestionably, when it came to dividing, dismantling, dismembering, desolating, detaching, dispossessing, destroying, or dominating, Mama Elena was a pro” (pg. 97). Mama Elena also keeps Tita away from Pedro because she went through the same thing. "Besides…
Her sister Mago was her rock; her little Mother you could say. She raised Reyna in her parent’s absence; in fact if it wasn’t for Mago, she might not have even be in this country. “I won’t go with you if you…
grew up in a very unstable household for part of his childhood. He also spent a portion…
He has been met with little to no adversity and has the capability of living his life out to its greatest potential. Now compare this lifestyle to that of a less fortunate child; the poor child will most likely not have the opportunity to pursue higher learning, in turn receiving less opportunities, and resulting in him growing in a stagnant environment. This child is of a impoverish background, thus he will not be respected like his wealthy counterpart, and will be constantly faced with adversities or hardships in the future. The author Junot Diaz described in his work his hardships from having a poor background, detailing an experience that no wealthy child would have reason to have. In his article “The Money” he stated his experience growing up in a tough environment: “... In our…
an imagined fear may seem more prevalent because they are subjected to realistic worries where as a child in the ghettos would have more realistic fears due to everyday problems that are present in their lives.…