Summary Of Puerto Rican Obituary By Harriet Beecher Stowe

In the pit of Connecticut lies the drug addict and gang infested, lifeless, and ethnically disproportionate capital - Hartford! On the weekdays, people watching from about six in the morning to four in the evening is made possible thanks to the abundance of traffic drawn in by the financial services and insurance companies. But after the typical work commute, there's nothing but the swirls of the wind as well as the frequent screeches of the transit bus brakes to listen to. The silence carries into the weekend in which residents rarely have places to wine and dine or shop at since local businesses remain closed due to lack of customers. There are several of historical landmarks here like the home of Mark Twain and Harriet Beecher Stowe, the
“They died broke, they died owing, they died never knowing what the front entrance of the first national city bank looks like” is a verbal translation of the work ethic of minorities. It's a reflection of the concept that those who “don’t have it all” tend to work harder than those who do but it’s not always the final veridic . To me, the author was writing between the lines . Pedro Pietri was trying to highlight the real reason why minorities tend not to progress in society. For example, lack of education and financial support are the most common issues that drive people to strive harder. In a sense, minorities without an education and/or monetary stability won't get to enjoy the fruit of their labor because they will be working. The American Dream which is the full family figure , stable career having, and white picket fence living seems to be the winning lottery ticket to many of these characters throughout this poem . “Clean-cut lily-white neighborhood, Puerto Ricanless scene, thirty-thousand-dollar home. The first spics on the block, proud to belong to a community of gringos who want them lynched” is a verse from the poem that discusses the moment in which a minority does move up the success ladder. The money changes and with that, the environment does too. You become estrange d to those
Auria lives in a neighborhood in which gang members make a daily appearance but she is not phased by them. She remains within her confident of her tall-wrought iron fence. In this urban setting, Aura isolates herself from communicating with her neighbors out of fear that she thoughts and form of expression is completely outdated. She can't keep up with the generation that's taking over her community. They don't value her as a member of their ethnic group or her age group, even as a human being in general. Sometimes I feel like I can't interact with my neighbors because they think I carry myself with too much dignity. I work and attend college full time and apparently, I'm not entitled to feel as if I don't have to necessarily interact with others because they aren't doing what I am. And just like Auria, I keep to myself. However, Jake from “Love in L.A.” is the product of an urban setting. He's comfortably lazy, unemployed, and doesn't seem to have any form of moral fiber. In the story, he gets into a fender bender accident in which he sweetly distracts a young woman from taking action. His license plates that weren't his, he wasn't insured, and failed to provide a license. Although it sounds like a typical car accident encounter, it's not. Jake acts so carelessly because of the environment he is in. He's not motivated to do or want more of his life. From