The Positive Corrilation Between LIfe and Paper
4705350-6858000 A Positive Correlation in life lessons
My selection for Response, out of all the reading that could be chosen, I chose the short story Ironing by Esmeralda Santiago. Inside this story Santiago talks about herself being the main character. She states in the beginning her mother being over loaded with Raymond’s doctor visits and medication refills, while unloading on their personal funds. Leading to her mother having to locate other sources of employment. These ranging from Cooking for their landlord, I assumed to pay for rent. All the way to doing the laundry/Ironing for a laundry mat down the road, where her mother worked. One of the many things her mother need to do to fulfill her laundry requests was ironing. As stated by Santiago “Of all the things in the world Mami had to do this was her least favorite. She liked cooking, sewing, mopping, and even dusting. But she always complained about how much she hated ironing.” Coincidently Santiago learns to loves ironing, but also realizes that this is a bonding moment between here and her mother.
In amazement her mother taught her all the proper steps for ironing from how hot the iron needs to be for both cotton and linen all the way to how much moisture needed to get just the right amount of steam to rise. Through all these teachings and complicated instructions there is one thing that Santiago begins to notice how happy her mother is. She realizes that she is bonding and spending time with her mother. She then makes the connection, when she wants to feel close to her “Mami” all she has to do is iron out her laundry.
During this reading, I made a few strong connections, all dealing with individual concepts on how I was raised and bonded with my father. I first connected to this story when it brought up memories of my own father teaching me how to work on general diagnostics to specific problems in a vehicle. He made sure I knew the responsibility of owning my own vehicle, and the
My selection for Response, out of all the reading that could be chosen, I chose the short story Ironing by Esmeralda Santiago. Inside this story Santiago talks about herself being the main character. She states in the beginning her mother being over loaded with Raymond’s doctor visits and medication refills, while unloading on their personal funds. Leading to her mother having to locate other sources of employment. These ranging from Cooking for their landlord, I assumed to pay for rent. All the way to doing the laundry/Ironing for a laundry mat down the road, where her mother worked. One of the many things her mother need to do to fulfill her laundry requests was ironing. As stated by Santiago “Of all the things in the world Mami had to do this was her least favorite. She liked cooking, sewing, mopping, and even dusting. But she always complained about how much she hated ironing.” Coincidently Santiago learns to loves ironing, but also realizes that this is a bonding moment between here and her mother.
In amazement her mother taught her all the proper steps for ironing from how hot the iron needs to be for both cotton and linen all the way to how much moisture needed to get just the right amount of steam to rise. Through all these teachings and complicated instructions there is one thing that Santiago begins to notice how happy her mother is. She realizes that she is bonding and spending time with her mother. She then makes the connection, when she wants to feel close to her “Mami” all she has to do is iron out her laundry.
During this reading, I made a few strong connections, all dealing with individual concepts on how I was raised and bonded with my father. I first connected to this story when it brought up memories of my own father teaching me how to work on general diagnostics to specific problems in a vehicle. He made sure I knew the responsibility of owning my own vehicle, and the