The unexpected death of Carlitos’ grandmother drives him to embark on his own journey as a desperate attempt to reunite with his mother. When my parents first arrived to the United States they left my four siblings behind with my grandmother. Successfully my parents were later able to bring my siblings into the US too. Carlitos did not have his mother bring him, which caused a great challenge for him since he was only nine years old. When Rosario finds out that he left Mexico in search for her, she also desperately tries to find him.
He took her on a trip and now he has to the bank back. Since his mom’s death, Lee has bean alone. All lee wants is someone to be long to. Since he is not getting that he’s been in a lot of trouble with the police “you’ve burned all your bridges” a police officer says to Lee when he brings him home after catching him during a gang initiation. Lee wants to become a member of the Tarantulas because”if you belonged you didn’t need to worry about anything... you always have a place to go, someone to turn to.
The movie illustrates complex plotting, including reversal and recognition with all the characters. In the movie Uncle Buck, shows the opposite of catastrophe for the good in the beginning of the movie. Uncle Buck seems to be living the life, going to horse races to gamble, having a girl that he is not committed to, a job that he does not go to everyday and he does not have kids to watch everyday. Uncle Buck seems to have the life that other people want. Uncle Buck’s lifestyle soon changes when he realizes what a family is when he has to watch his brother’s kids for the week.
He went straight to the labor force at the age of fifteen because my family had lost everything after the Fall of Saigon. He was only making minimum wage. He was unskilled and young too. Every penny that he made went back to support the family. Unlike many opportunities that we have today that makes college more accessible, my father was not allowed to apply for college during his time.
Enrique's mother left her two kids and family one day for the United States and never came back to Mexico. In Mexico, Lourdes could not afford much, very poor. With two kids and divorced, it was a struggle everyday to even make ends meet. So, she decided to go to the United States to get a job and send money back home for her kids. With all this being said, she was not going to see them again because of money.
Jeannette and her siblings were raised by their parents to not believe in Santa Clause as it was nothing more than just a myth. As Rex loses his job at the mining field he does not have money to buy the children gifts for Christmas so he takes them out one by one and gives them a star in the sky as Jeannette chose Venus. As Rose is soon to deliver, the family moves to another town in California that is more suitable for them at the moment. The parents soon to begin to argue in the car because Rex believes that Rose is ridiculous for a claiming that her children are delivered later than other children do. Rose gets mad and jumps out of the car and heads away from the road and into the desert as Rex suddenly drives off the road to get her back.
Along the way however, the way in which the characters lived changed as well. During Kracha’s time, money struggles dominated his life. During his efforts to obtain stability, he worked on the railroad, then moved to the steel mills, where years later, proceeded to open and own a butcher shop, then finally ended up back at the mills. His interests were not in updating and owning a home; rather, they lied in drinking, cheating on his dying wife and leaving three children on the backburner. Mike, however, was committed to his family and did not like the idea of keeping boarders to obtain more money for he didn’t want his wife, Mary, to overexert herself.
She told him that a certain amount is for him, and the other certain amount is for Beneathas education. No matter how much mama did not like the idea of him opening up the liquor store, she couldn’t see her own son in the condition he was in. Walter being caught up on his liquor store, he did not listen to what mama had told him, and gave all the insurance money to his partners for the liquor store. The following day, one of the partners came to his house and told Walter that the other partner had run away with all the
Every weekend Gatsby would throw parties in hope to get Daisy’s attention. At the parties there would be many people that wouldn’t be invited or that didn’t know Gatsby at all. All these people just used Gatsby for his parties and to feed off of his wealth. When Gatsby dies barely any people came Wolfsheim said “I cannot come down now as I am tied up in some very important business and cannot get mixed up in this thing right now.” his own business partner wouldn’t show up to his funeral showing the loss of morality in Wolfsheim. The owl eyed man in the library is shocked when he hears that no one showed up to Gatsby’s funeral and says “Why, my God!
The wife ends up leaving Chris and his son because they are unable to afford everything and there is too much arguing, therefore they are not meant for each other. One day Chris is walking past a stock market office he sees everyone coming out of there all so happy. He wishes he could be in there to. He ends up going for an interview and gets the job, even though he was dressed badly from being in the jail the night before. Chris realizes that even though the job there had no salary it was not all about the money.