Everyday Use

THEME
This story highlights the importance of heritage because for every family around in the world is quite important to have one and we need to appreciate that as well. Dee’s family is from Africa or they are from black heritage and the family heirlooms such as customs, ancestors and history are of great importance for her too. For every person is very significant for her/his family and that person wants to inherit his/her customs and habits from generation to generation or over time. However, in the story says Dee thinks that her heritage is like dead or actually false. She rejects her culture and heritage because she wants a new one, in fact she does not understand her own heritage.

Mama tries to send her in a good school and it reflects how education is quite important for heritage because education was denied for Mama, also she faced a lot of situations such as racism and problems with her school when she was a child and Dee has the chance to study. On the other hand that chance produced several issues among her relatives despite the fact education is very useful in life but for her it is a thing that she cannot find out herself.

CHARACTERS

Dee: Obviously she is a black girl and she is very colorful in order to represent her culture. She is beautiful and smart but kind of disappointed to accept her heritage.

Mama: A very strict mother and she is kind of old and fat. I think she is wise she thinks that she knows everything in life but she does not at least she does not get her daughter.

My family's treasures

This is our house in Nicoya, Guanacaste, this picture was taken so many time ago and we started to build it little by little now it is different and more beautiful for us. We really love to spend time there all vacations we go in order to have fun with relatives and friends

This is a treasure from my dad are his trophies when he was an athlete but it becomes our treasure as well, actually I recall when he told us about his competencies in Costa Rica and in some countries even he was famous in that time. And we have more trophies for all over the house.

Our final but the most valuable treasure is ourselves we have the treasure of family. We can support and love each other. Family is quite important for human beings when we need supporting and we know that they are never going to let us down and they want the best thing for us as well.

All my family together in the welcome party for my cousin, his wife and son who arrived from Germany

Straw into gold

THEME

This story talks about a Mexican woman who is facing some taboos because she is a Latin girl and an interesting point is that she is the narrator as well. At the beginning of the story she talks about a meal that some fellow Latin-Americans promised her to do also they made a promise to make Mexican-food so, it catches her attention. This story reflects how Latin people or in this case Mexican people have to make tortillas or any typical food of Latin American is kind of an overgeneralization or even just must know how to cook or clean houses.

It is quite interesting because despite the fact she is Latin America she had the chance to study and live abroad in several countries such as the USA, Europe, and Greece and so on. However, after all that, she says Texas brings her Mexico back and it is a good experience and part of her life. I really like this short story because a possible theme is Latin people can have a great future as well as people other cultures. You cannot judge people by where they come from. 

CHARACTER

The narrator: She is brunette she has straight hair and brown eyes. She very positive and really confident. Everything that she wants in life she makes come true.

The father: Closed mind I think he is kind of strict with his family however, a very good person.  

Costa Rican's overgeneralizations

1- Ticas know how to make Tortillas, gallo pinto, rosquillas, tamales and all Costa Rican food.

2- All ticas are beautiful but I really think that we are very pretty

3- Costa Rica is a beach and we are very ecological and they tend to know just about Guanacaste and Manuel Antonio

4- Ticos are PURA VIDA

5- Ticos are very friendly, we have fun all the time with alcohol and we know how to dance Salsa, cumbia and merengue.

The yellow Wallpaper

THEME

The yellow wallpaper is about a woman who writes a story as diary of her experience because she is suffering of depression. The mental constraints imposed on her such as anxieties and fears are quite difficult to handle because even the physical ones she has to hide from everybody to save her marriage. At first, she has to tolerate her treatment as a mandatory silence because she cannot express any feeling. She is forbidden to use imagination, to think, to work and to write, every condition to use mind. Her husband is a doctor, and he locks her into a room with old yellow wallpaper and she did not like it at the beginning.

She is starting to analyzed the paper as a pattern and also she dislikes her husband John because for the treatment he is giving her, besides he warns her several times that she must use herself control to stop her imagination and with Jennie who is keeping the house and taking care of the baby. Her journal is like a relief and she feels free to create and describe everything that she wants but she has to keep it secretly. Finally, John thinks that she is getting better but it is the other way around. The narrator describes herself as proper or seemly into madness.

CHARACTERS

The narrator: She is pretty and young however, she looks like old because clothes that she is wearing in that room. She caring, patient and lovely. But she is kind of disappointed.

John: He is bad for me and he does not get her feelings. He is a chilly person, ugly and fatty.  

 Angelina Jolie as the narrator. As I watched in the movie CHANGELING she was forced to go a madhouse because she lost her son.

He always works as a good guy and also as the crazy one in some movies he is John because he worked in movies where he said that his wife was crazy

Jennifer Aniston as Jennie she made some movies where she worked as a maid in houses Aniston is a awsome actress.

Coyote finishes his work

THEME

This short story reflects Coyote as the protector of earth and his work in the planet. He killed monsters and the evil for people and he taught languages and how to hunt and what are the right fruits and vegetables. That’s why there are Indians in whole world speaking different languages. He always was traveling from place to place he was looking for things that needed to be done. Coyotes gave each Indian their own names as well.

One day Coyote had almost everything done and he wanted to go to the place where he started. Shows up Old Man and he said he was chief of the earth and at first Coyotes did not even know about that mysterious man. After that, Coyote realized that old man was chief and he begun to respect and decided to leave because all his work was done. Old man had a great home for him, old man returned to say that himself and coyote were leaving and they will be back when the earth woman is very old. 

CHARACTERS 

Coyote: I imagine him as movies where say something like "red face". "The pale faces" (americans) always say to Indians red face or red-skinned. I think that he was an indian as movies demostrate. Mystical creature almost as a God for them. He was wise, funny, intelligent and ugly.

Old man: He was very old, he was wise too and patient.

Those quotes means a lot to me because I often thought about death as something awful but over time I think that death is the next step to peacefulness and happiness because you become relax and all pain is gone. You meet the paradise. However when someone who we love dies it is something that we cannot forget or get over it. We can feel better but never forget completely.

Hills like white elephants

THEME

This story is about a couple who have a conversation regarding a huge decision that they have to make. The man is pushing her to have an operation, in the story does not tell what kind of operation is but is understood to be an abortion because she is pregnant and that baby is going to be a big issue in their relationship. He says that everybody does it and it is quite easy and safe procedure however, the girl is confused. The man is trying to tell her that he loves her and everything between them will go back to the way it used to be. Both guys talk but neither listens the other’s point of view therefore, the girl admits that she is going to have the abortion just because to shut him up. It seems the baby adds lot of problems under their lives and the relationship they have to be responsible that baby is going to be a burden. Although, the girl asks if after the abortion he still love her, but they know that anything is going to be the same. Everything changed after that mistake. She is not sure and after some a while they realized having that conversation is useless and she says can’t we maybe stop talking? It is a conversation where both of them do not get their own desires. 

CHARACTERS 

The american man: He is rugged and wants to do everything for his own. I could get some ideas about his physical apperance such as I can picture himself as a tall man and very handsome as the most Americans are maybe blue eyes. And he is impatient and impulsive.

Girl: I could not get if she is american, so the only thing that I could get about her physical apperance is that she is so beautiful and a good woman and she is funny or makes him happy. On the hand, she seems insecure and consufed.

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