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    sense of these examples from novels such as The Great Gatsby and Bodega Dreams. During the early 1920’s‚ The Great Gatsby takes place in Long Island‚ New York where the community mostly consist of rich white people. Then there’s Bodega Dreams which sets in the 1990’s in Spanish Harlem‚ New York where the community would mostly consist of latinos/latinas. The two novels present us with examples of how race can impact our society. In Bodega Dreams‚ students in Spanish Harlem are stereotyped by the

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    How does one give up on a dream they had once achieved? Some may move on‚ but for many‚ it is easy to remain stuck in those vivid moments they think of every time they close their eyes. Anything other than staying determined is unthinkable‚ although it is not an easy feat with every obstacle – including time – working against them. Fixation on the past turns a once-motivator to a manic hindrance. Fitzgerald‚ Mannilow‚ Coldplay‚ and Quin᷈onez explore this phenomenon in different ways‚ connected through

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    Bodega Dreams In the novel Bodega Dreams intersectionality functions in the way the characters envision themselves achieving their definition of success and how they will achieve it. Intersectionality is the “interlocking inequalities of race‚ gender‚ ethnicity‚ and class that create a matrix of domination within which privileges and disadvantages are unequally distributed among people” (Intersections of Gender‚ Race‚ Ethnicity‚ and Class‚ 02/14). Even though two of the book’s characters Julio

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    1 Makeitha C Mrs. Rogers ENC 1102‚ 4:05 November 29th‚ 2011 Culture vs. Education Culture is an essential element that can impact the way a person sees the world and processes information. “Superman and Me‚” by Sherman Alexie and “Bodega Dreams‚” by Ernesto Quinonez‚ examines the importance of education and the impact it has on cultures. In “Superman and Me” the narrator tells a story about an Indian boy who teaches himself how

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    Larisa Joseph Diane Garbow Book Review December 4‚ 2012 Bodega Dreams is an excellent novel written by Ernesto Quinonez. Quinonez tells a touching story about the real life of Spanish Harlem neighborhoods. The main character Julio Mercado (also known as Chino) is Puerto Rican as well as Quinonez. The story takes place in Spanish Harlem‚ with the majority of poor Spanish people; a town over is Upper East Side Manhattan filled with wealthy white Americans. Chico stated‚ “a slum that

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    The American Dream‚ a dream that all Americans have‚ for everything to be equal‚ and to have life‚ liberty‚ and the pursuit of happiness. This is the typical American dream and the overall outline of the American Dream but everyone’s can be significantly different. In the book of mice and men the lesson you learn is that just having an American Dream is what shapes your life and gives you the purpose to do things. Whereas in The Great Gatsby the lesson is more along the lines of showing you that

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    The Broken American Dream of the 1920s An accurate name for the 1920s is the roaring twenties. This was a decade full of social transformation and industrialization. Through this shift‚ a degradation in social moral occurred. A victim of this shift is the character J. Gatsby in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. Gatsby is “corrupted by values and attitudes that he holds in common with a society that destroys him”(44). Through this mutual and obscured social moral‚ Gatsby seems to obtain a destructive

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    Dreams Whether lavish and extravagant‚ or humble and mundane‚ they’re something that everybody has‚ but not everybody gets. Dreams are often sought after with such great desire for the possibility of it coming to existence‚ that all rational ideas are pushed aside and reality is warped. The essence of this is perfectly captured in Jay Gatsby’s character of Scott Fitzgerald’s‚ The Great Gatsby and can be likened to Laura Wingfield of Tennessee William’s‚ The Glass Menagerie‚ and the narrator of Hunger

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    In the book Bodega Dreams Bodega says "Where the city sees burned buildings I see opportunity" (pg.37). Bodega in this sentence is trying to persuade or convey Chino to help with his business. As this quote shortly exemplifies Willie Bodega’s so called “American” dream and vision to establish the hope in his people and in their community. This also can be seen in the book when Bodega Say’s “I take care of the community and the community takes care of me” as this quote helps me show that his hope

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    that that’s what attracted me to Willie Bodega. Willie Bodega didn’t just change me and Blanca’s life‚ but the entire landscape of the neighborhood. Bodega would go down as a representation of all the ugliness in Spanish Harlem and also all the good it was capable of being. Bodega placed a mirror in front of the neighborhood and in front of himself. He was street nobility incarnated in someone who still believed in dreams. And for a small while‚ those dreams seem as palpable as that dagger Macbeth

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