She makes it clear that she knows how hard it has been for her to overcome many obstacles to get to college and be where she is at now. She comes from a family that values a good work ethic and working as a farm worker is more important than reading books and at times sacrificing education. Castellanos argues, “At a young age-between eleven and fourteen-I began my intellectual and spiritual rebellion against my parents and society. I fell in love with books and created space of my own where I could dare to dream” (pg 341). In her culture being married and having kids was her duties as a Mexican.
“Se Habla Espanol” The essay, “Se Habla Espanol,” was written by Tanya Barrientos. Tanya writes about the hardships she goes through trying to speak the language that she pushed away from because of racial stereotypes. Being stereotyped Tanya did not want anything to do with being a Latina, or speaking the Spanish language. Once she realized how society had changed, Tanya tried to regain the culture she had lost during her childhood. Tanya wants to inspire those of her culture that can relate to what she is going through, while also asking for acceptance within the Latino community.
Even before one reads this book they cannot understand what it truly means to break away from hardship and into love without reading and comprehending the passion and love in each and every line of this poetry. Thus, I will explain to you why exactly I feel this form of poetry is good if not the best way to express ones experience with falling in love! For instance, the very first page of Street Love says it all. It explains where Junice comes from, where she has grown up, and how this life has made her who she is today! Page one (1), line thirteen, states “Harlem is not an easy place to grow old” – and this is very much backed up throughout the story in her case.
Gwen Hardwood The emotive qualities of Gwen Harwood’s poetry resonate with her readers. She uses her own memories to illustrate love for her family, her loss of innocence and the swiftness of time passing. She demonstrates this in her poems Father and Child, The Violets and At Mornington. The poem The Violets opens with the line “It is dusk and cold,” the time of day symbolising that this persona has reached old age and is metaphorically drawing closer to nightfall or the end of her days. Death is made apparent with the negative adjective “cold.” The flowers she is picking at the beginning of this poem are clearly what stimulate her memory of childhood as they are referenced later in the poem.
She also did not give up even though she faced many difficulties in the journey of how she made the world recognized Chicano Spanish . Marjane in “The Veil “ also shows us her strong belief in God ,and that she did not give up her dream to be a prophet , which she believed in, was a decision from God. The second similarity from both essays is about their hopes for freedom. In “How To Tame A Wild Tongue “,Anzaldua asked for freedom and to allow her to learn new things in her own way. Being punished during recess, requiring to take 2 speech classes to get rid of the accent ,and “ Who to say that robbing people of its language is less violent than war “ is the quote that she put at the end of the first paragraph , are examples that clearly show how she felt back then.
4) “Persona”, a movie by Ingmar Bergman, portrays the weakness and strengths of a person’s identity. Portrait is a poem written by Judith Wright which investigates the different aspects of identity. The poem regards the persona so excited and enthusiastic about her marriage and her new housewife duties because she was loved and needed. The persona in the second stanza then reveals that her passion for this life disappears as her heart is unsatisfied for she believes she is only loved by her family because she was needed to keep the house and keep their lives in order. The topics of identity she analyses are the effect of years and time, the transformation of identity, and that identity is an image; a portrait.
This shows a sense of BELONGING to culture and family and self. This is taken from a monologue at the end of the novel and is written to show personal thoughts. The combination of short and long sentences helps convey the meaning and emotion of the words on the page.” I’ll fight with all my might to see that nothing tears my family apart…I figured out it doesn’t matter wether I’m Josephine Andretti who was never an Alibrandi… It matters who I feel like I am… “ The concept of BELONGING is shaped and shown through the narrator’s first person perspective and emotional words. The visual features and techniques in A Walk To Remember are the effective way through which the concept of BELONGING are portrayed very little is said by the characters in relation to BELONGING and not BELONGING. The main way that the concept of not BELONGING is conveyed is through the clothing, music and settings surrounding th 2 main characters.
The reason that she feels so out of place is due to the fact that she has left a life of familiarity for a life of cities, material possessions, and politics. I think that the author wanted to point out that knowing your past can sometimes help you out later in life. In “Blood Flowing in Two Worlds”, by Mary Black Bonnet, Mary tells us how she always felt there was something missing in her life, and how it changed for the better when she returned to the reservation after being raised in a world she didn't feel a part of. She is
This shows that Emily wants a time off happiness that was lost when she was caught up in the course of life and what she wanted back from her time on Earth. Emily also learns that life, no matter how well or bad one lived, everything should be valued. This play seems to be based on that simple truth and ends with the answer of only a few people only truly understand and see life as they are living it, the poets and
It is fitting that the women who chose to take these words as her name did in fact embody the spirit behind the words. In her short stay here on earth, she was able to impart many truths upon the people she spoke with and in doing, so she was able to further the causes that she supported. Her life was a constant search for belonging and a home. Her life beginning as a slave, being separated from her family early on, then being isolated from her children and community after obtaining freedom, was a lonely one. Sojourner’s quest for a home may not have come to fruition during her life but in death, history found a place for her among the other