“Bajo La Misma Luna” (2007) In the film “Bajo La Misma Luna” the story of the nine year old Carlitos and His mother Rosario portray the reality of Mexican families that cross over the border. The film touches very touching and meaningful issues that these families have gone through upon the arrival to the US. Rosario leaves her boy behind in Mexico with his grandmother to go to California in hopes of providing a better life for him. Rosario works illegally in the US and sends money weekly so that her son doesn’t need anything. However, all Carlitos wants is his mother.
The book follows Esperanza Ortega, a young, wealthy, 13-year old girl living in Mexico whose life is turned upside down when her father, a successful rancher, is murdered. Since it is not customary to leave land to women, the land is given to Esperanza’s uncle, a dangerous man. When Esperanza’s mother refuses to marry her uncle he threatens to make life difficult for them; one night their house is set on fire and they are forced to move out. Having no other options, Esperanza and her mother, along with their servants, move to the United States to work on a farm. When they arrive in California, Esperanza is forced to face the reality of what had happened.
Even after the earthquake, when she becomes homeless and jobless, she does not accept her father’s help. She moves to a refugee camp and lives in a tent there. “Fremont,” Bartlett said, jerking her head to the left and setting all her wrinkles aquiver, “you carry the blankets over to that table for the volunteers to hand out, while I take care of your friend here” (47). In addition, she is a responsible citizen that she joins the Red Cross who helps people suffering from the earthquake. Fremont volunteers for Red Cross being a good and responsible citizen.
American families would view single parenting as a threat to a family structure. Doing everything by themselves with no one else to blame but themselves is one of the most difficult things a single mother can struggle with. As time progresses a single mother discovers she is capable of doing so much not just for their well being but for her children. They quickly learn how to adapt and over come. While many single mothers worry too much or regret decisions during their children childhood they are satisfied with the result and the out come of there children by the actions their children make after they grown out of their childhood In “I stand here ironing” a mother depicts her first child to have a bad early childhood by making the wrong decision not by choice but simply what got handed to them in a urban world.
The movie, which was made in 1988, has a wonderful combination of the romantic, the violent, the symbolic and the reality in the spirit of resisting the Japanese. The movie depicts life of a woman in a rural village in war time. Living in sorghum area, Nine is forced to marry with an old man who has leprosy. After her husband’s death, she and her lover take care of his business. The rest of this story is about how people in the sorghum winery are impacted and tore apart by the invasion of Japanese.
At the beginning of Esperanza Rising it’s 10 years after the Mexican Revolution and there is still anger to large landowners. Señor Rodriguez owns a large ranch in Aguascalientes, Mexico. His ranch boarders the Ortega families ranch. When Esperanzas father was killed, and her house was burned down, and her mother was forced to marry Tio Luis. Mama decided to flee to California for a better life.
Telling Art Dorothea Lange’s “Migrant Mother, Nipomo, CA”, came at a time when the struggles for migrant workers in California were at their highest levels. The look on this woman’s face, really shows all the emotions of grueling labor. Unfortunately, it was her only way to survive so she had no other choice. I think her being a mom adds to the sadness of the piece. She not only has to work and take care of herself, but she also has to raise a child in those conditions.
The story is about a young girl called Adeline Yen Mah who has a hard life. Her mother died while giving birth to her so she is considered an unlucky child. She is always treated unequally to her six other siblings. After her mother died her father married a woman called Niag. When the family moved to Shanghai to live with her the children found out that she was an evil wicked stepmother.
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings In Maya Angelou’s autobiography, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, we read about Maya’s struggle with her feelings about not having her parents around to help her through the racism of her time. Though Maya had a rough upbringing, the hard times of her childhood help shape her into the bright, strong, and independent woman she is today. Maya, or commonly known as Ritie, was raised with no parents. Ritie was content with living with her “momma” until the “terrible Christmas.” RItie was confident that her parents were dead, even though people told her that they were in California eating all the oranges they could. By receiving these gifts Ritie felt, “rudely awakened.” Though they don’t want to this made Ritie and Bailey think, “What did we do so wrong?” They Know that they did nothing wrong, but they couldnt help pondering the question.
Global Inequalities and Health In Chapter 16, of Parker Farmer’s reader, he describes the story of a woman named Acephie who lost her life to AIDS in 1991. Acephie was born into a family who lived in poverty and lost their home and land when the valley they lived in was flooded by a hydroelectric dam. To lessen her chances of staying in poverty, she worked to help her mother carry produce to a local market on Friday mornings for profit. The route they had to take to get to the market took them right through Peligre, which was the site of the dam and a military barracks. Acephie, being a beautiful young woman, caught the eye of a soldier named Honorat.