The central idea of being persecuted until assimilation occurs is emphasized through the text. In the essay “I, Too, Sing America” it states, “For the first time in my life I experienced prejudice and playground cruelty.” Alvarez is depressed with her experiences, and was…
Thesis: The author posits that the derivative of a tragically unsuccessful colonization effort results with an epic ten-year odyssey of survival, assimilation, and revelation as the first Old World outsiders to athwart and live in the interior of North America. The culmination of the experiences of Cabeza de Vaca, man of influence, stranded in unexplored lands, encountering and existing with countless Native American tribes as guest, slave, trader, and healer engenders an atypical ideal of humane colonization and coexistence.…
Throughout life we identify ourselves with fundamental traditions that correlate with us from the early years of our lives. A practice we learned from our ancestors and remains in our families for decades, symbolizing our great legacy and pride. In a distinctive poem “Green Chile” (1989) by Jimmy Santiago Baca, he exhibits a solid connection between his grandmother and chiles. A unique relationship that goes beyond pride and respect for a man who shows appreciation for his native country, despite of who he is today. Baca’s (1989) poem “Green Chile” is an example of how a simple dish has an immense value, expressing appreciation and love for the land where he grew up. In this unique poem, culture and sacrifice are two important messages the writer emphasizes.…
“And I thanked mi papa who’d always said to me that we…..were like the weeds. That roses you had to water and give fertilizer or they’d die. But weeds, indigenous plants, you gave them nada-nothing; hell you even poisoned them and put concrete over them, and those weeds would still break the concrete, reaching for the sunlight…
Food plays an intricate part in any given culture; it is a medium that is used to express love, and to pass down tradition from generation to generation. In Jimmy Santiago Baca’s poem “Green Chile”, Baca explores the value of chile peppers in his family and it’s heritage.…
The story “Juicy and Delicious” written by Lucy Alibar and its film adaptation “Beasts of the Southern Wild” directed by Benh Zeitlin follow the life of a young child named Hushpuppy in a home she calls “the Bathtub.” Throughout the play, Hushpuppy learns how to love and care for others with examples given by the characters Miss Bathsheba, Joy, Birfday cake, and Daddy. Hushpuppy is portrayed more as dependent and in need of some protection in the play’s version of her story, while in the film her character is adapted to be seemingly more independent, assertive and courageous. ((the so what, what’s the point of that))…
“Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.” - Albert Einstein. For example when Hushpuppy got connected to nature she would hear a heartbeat or her mother talking to her. Another example is when Janie’s husband Tea Cake passed away, she took some seeds with her that reminded her of Tea cake and planted them. The movie “ Beasts of the Southern Wild” released in 2012 directed by Benh Zeitlin and the book , “Their Eyes Were Watching God” written by Zora Hurston published in 1937 are both natural disasters. The film “ Beasts of the Southern Wild” and the novel “Their Eyes Were Watching God” have some critical similarities. These include the characteristic of the protagonists, each protagonist’s relationship…
America is a strange and unfamiliar place to Creighton. Not only is the terrain new, there are also noticeable cultural differences between Creighton and the Americans. The passage, “...But before they reached it, they swung about and headed into the mouth of a narrow waterway that disappeared between stands of unfamiliar trees, many of them draped with long strands of some gray substance. ‘Spanish moss,’ Peter informed him, even though he hadn’t asked. ‘And them are cypress…
The author gives the tone of fear in the first two paragraph of the small passage when Gene goes to see the tree. Knowles uses the oxymoron “…the more things remain the same, the more they change” to suggest that Gene still fears he has not changed, that he is still living in the past. Gene feels that he is still the same while visiting the marble steps and the tree; time has not changed him. In addition, “grandeur” and “beanstalk” are used to characterize the tree. Knowles uses “beanstalk” , also an allusion, to describe to the reader that Gene felt the tree was high as the beanstalk was to Jack in the English fairy tale; he uses “grandeur” to emphasize and describe the height of the tree as well. Also, the author describes the tree as “forbidding as an artillery piece” to indicate that the tree is dangerous and unsafe. Gene was afraid that he has not changed and was living in the past, and he feared the dangerous, tall tree because of Finny’s…
First, we can see his Native American heritage in the language of the poem. For example, he refers to the elderly woman whom he is conversing with as "white" (line 1), which gives the impression he is not; there would be no real reason of mentioning skin color unless it was important to him. He is also very negative about the white woman's definition of history. The woman says, "'Look, / look at all the history,…
As i read the chapters from American Wasteland by Jonathan Bloom and uses phrases in order to get his message across to the readers such as culture of waste, redistribution, and food insecurity. The author reflects on these phrases to discuss and argue his message. Bloom was successful in getting his message across and i will explain how.…
This quote talks about how no one can be completely independent regardless of what they can do. Our interdependence units us, but it can also become out hamartia if we rely too much on others and lose faith in ourselves. In the middle stanza of the poem, the author states, ¡°you move in your own seasons through the seasons of others.¡± This line insinuates that each decision that we make is influenced by other people to some extend. This society influence can turn out to be good and bad. Each person is like a tree and each decision we make is a branch of the tree. Without a good guidance, it¡¯s very easy for the tree go grow improperly; however, the wrong guidance can also make the tree grow incorrectly. The positive and negative side of things…
Miner introduces the readers to a society living between Canada and Mexico, originated by a founder called “Notgnihsaw”, who chopped down a cherry tree to claim an awareness of truth. Instantly, this sparks the reader’s attention by recognizing the similarity of the American culture. The reader might notice that “Notgnihsaw” is “Washington” spelled backwards, and Washington was the founding Father of our country.…
Rodo’s problems with North American culture begins then not at its foundational core, but rather the extensions of it, and what the U.S. in particular has evolved into. For example, while he does praise earlier North Americans such as the likes of Edgar Allan Poe, he believes that their works have been have been replaced by the “gray pages of…
Unfortunately, this poem was written in the wake of a gruesome civil war in El Salvador. Some even describe it as “one of the bloodiest political contests in Latin America’s recent history...that cost near 80,000 lives” (Sprenkels…