The Distance Between Us Reyna Grande Summary

This essay will look at the book called Something Fierce by Carmen Aguirre. Specifically it will look at the relationship between Carmen and her mother. I will relate the relationship with examples of my mother’s relationship with my sister. Did Carmen’s mother make a terrible mistake in bringing her daughters with her to Latin America? There are so many things that need to be taken account of in a decision like this; it is nuanced because of the nurture vs. nature argument and so although Carmen’s mother could have made a mistake, it all depends on how the children react to the style of parenting and environment. Now given what we know from the story and taking that at face value, Carmen’s mother made a mistake in bringing her daughters with

Today, social media is one of the central outlets that people use to communicate and gather information. On social media, individuals “like,” “pin,” “retweet,” and more to express their satisfaction or disapproval regarding the global happenings and their personal worlds. On Twitter, sub-tweeting is a form of gossip and has caused much discord between individuals. At the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth century, another form of technology, telegramming, functioned as a form of gossip. In Jeannie Gunn’s autobiographical narrative, We of the Never-Never (1907), the telegram is a turn-of-the-century form of social media, serving as a major tool in communication and the barometer of the social climate of the text. The telegrams embedded in the text expose the private messages that are under the surface of written text. While telegrams would not have been a new invention when Jeannie Gunn wrote this account of her experiences in the early twentieth century, as being one of the first white women in her part of the bush, telegrams were still vital to the “success” of colonization in the harsh conditions of Australia. This paper will describe the critical role of the telegram in the colonization of Australia through an analysis of Gunn’s text and its historical context. Also, I will analyze the role that gossip plays in Gunn’s fashioning and portrayal of herself in the novel. Additionally, I will examine how Gunn is able to exist outside of the wired space and to

In "Enrique's Journey" and "Which Way Home" there were children who were leaving their current situations to live what they thought would be a more enjoyable life. Even though they moved away from their homes because they wanted to pursue a better life, they still couldn't find joy and satisfaction at their new destination or on the route to their new destination.

Michael Gow’s “Away” is an Australian play, set in the summer of 1967-68, in a time of great social and political change. “Away” tells the story of three families, each from different social classes, living in suburban Australia, as they each embark on their own holiday, attempting to escape their underlying personal issues. Immigrants Harry and Vic love their adopted country but are constantly faced with their son, Tom’s, terminal illness, while Jim and Gwen fret over their daughter Meg’s blossoming independence and her friendship with the socially unsuitable Tom, and Roy is unable to console a grief–stricken Coral over the death of their only son during the Vietnam war. Although each family is completely dissimilar, the theme of love remains

The Distance Between Us: A Memoir by Reyna Grande is about shattered relationships and a family’s lost and gain through a pursue for a better life. She was motivated because in her writing she can revisit Mexico and claim it as her own as she remembers it. She’s able to write as a Mexican author would about Mexico being that she’s not considered a real Mexican anymore. Inspired by the voices of the immigrant children who weren’t being reflected in books. She felt that she could give the children a voice through her writing. The title represents the distance between the kids and their parents. As the distance increase, communication started to decrease between them. The border created this distance they didn’t know, as time went on it would

In the text, Ana Maria is judged by her appearance as well as how she behaves in school. She is treated differently from others since her classmates figure out where is she from. The text articulates, “And they don’t know how they know/ But they know how to treat difference when they smell it, so they say things like, ‘YO! Go back to your country.” This excerpt from the poem denotes that despite the fact that she is within the same society of everyone else in her school, the presence of the Mexican heritage allows others for Ana Maria to bask in despair. Furthermore, the text evidence depicts that Ana Maria is struggling in order to prosper in her community as she is ostracized from society. To sum up, “Borders” represents a poem which develops the topic of inequality through a

Nowadays many students from my country Brazil consider the opportunity of studying abroad in another country. I am a student athlete from Brazil and I am living my dream of attaining college in the United States. The idea of living in a foreign country, where you will encounter different places, make new friends, and live a different way of life, sounds exciting and fun at the beginning, but those expectations are not always met. The story “Always living in Spanish” is about a Chilean girl who loves her country. However, due to the violent environment, Marjorie and her family decide to go to America, hoping to live a safer life. Many foreign students, such as Marjorie in “Always Living in Spanish”, experience difficulty integrating in another society because they have difficulty expressing themselves in that society´s language. This issue also evolves problems in adapting to another culture and living a normal daily life.

There are many things in life that can influence the way one acts and decision making to become who one is today. Like the people one surrounds oneself with, the area one lives in, the parents, and last but not least the culture one is from. Although the cultural experience of poverty might have an important influence on the opportunities one gets, our surroundings while growing up also form a stereotypical part of our identity, but the influence from our parents or good role model also teach us valuable experiences. Like in the novel The Distance Between us by Reyna Grande and, the film A Better Life directed by Chris Weitz shows how people can be influenced by their cultural experiences, their surroundings, and their parents actions.

Feelings like Reyna’s shown ones may think she misbehaved, but society use of language makes people act in certain ways. But, when the family is the ones making their lives impossible like her cousin Elida stating, “They’re going to forget all about you, you’ll see. You and your brothers and sister are always going to be Los Huerfanitos”(25). Spanish diction is important to differentiate the language used in particular when people who do not speak Spanish would have to look up those words to try to understand characters’ roles. Grande’s story was real and giving that Spanish just felt like adding imagination.

In the article, “Parting at the Crossroads: The Development of Health Insurance in Canada and the United States” the author Antonia Maioni argues various points as to why Canada and the United States of America have such different approaches to targeting the healthcare system. The topics covered by Maioni included, “Health Reform in Canada: The Role of the CCF-NDP”. Here Maioni discuses in great detail, the historical background to how Canada got to where they are in the health system through the ups and downs that occurred in Parliament due to “the public demand for action on medical insurance” which was influenced by the highly successful medical insurance program that existed in Saskatchewan post-world war. It goes to show, that the passing

In this story, Carolina and Savvie are sisters that can't be apart from each other. “I will Follow you” by Roxane Gay follows a story about these two girls that have lived a very difficult life and all they have is each other, they keep thinking back and forth about their very traumatic past as little as ten and eleven years old. Savvie and Carolina were kidnapped and molested, after six weeks of them being kidnapped by this perpetrator, they try to maintain a normal life but they keep getting flashbacks. When the perpetrator (Mr.Peter) returns to their lives he sends a letter from prison to the girls and asks them for forgiveness. These girls are put to the hardest test, will they let Mr.Peter still take advantage of them after they are

about the life of two girls, Adelina and Juana. Grande, who was born in Mexico and immigrated

There are two famous and amazing writers. Their names are Doris Pilkington and Katherine Boo. The two authors have written very sad and great stories, but, there is only one story that may grab a reader's attention. That story would be “Behind The Beautiful Forevers’’, Katherine Boo. The reason why Katherine Boo’s story gets her point across is because she shows the difficult things Abdul had to face in his life. Abdul had to go threw garbage and find things he could sell to get money for his family. In the story “Rabbit proof- Fence”, Doris Pilkington tells the challenges his character faces. The challenges that Kundila had to face was the White Raiders coming in and taking their children. In the “Behind The Beautiful Forevers,” Katherine

While reading Song of Songs in the bible the first aspect that stood out to me the most was the layout of the writings. First I noticed how it was in poetic form. The reading flowed really nicely and the comparisons of human to nature helped me to create a mental image in my mind while reading. The common themes throughout this book were love and searching for love (Nowell, Poetic artistry). There are about twenty different poems through the book, each with a different title. These titles give a good indication of what the poem is going to be about which helps you follow the deep and meaningful words to get a better understanding of the chapter. Another aspect that stood out to me was the letters ‘W', ‘M' and ‘D', listed on the left margins of the chapters. At first, I was really confused as to what those letters stood for. By reading the commentary by Irene Nowell I was able to understand the meaning of those letters. They stand for the different voices that speak throughout the book, ‘W' stands for the women, ‘M' stands for the man and ‘D' stands for the daughters of Jerusalem (Nowell, Genre, and Structure). This narrative, helps the reading flow smoother because you are able to figure out the point of view of the story.

“They killed my son in cold blood,” lamented Eloise Armstead. Her husband, Add Armstead, was traveling to work with a companion on Saturday evening in the early 1970s. Thomas Shea and Walter Scott, responding to a call about a cabby that was robbed earlier that day, used this opportunity to rid the world of the wicked and gain a victory for the righteous. Walking along New York Blvd. in South Jamaica, Queens, Shea and his partner pulled alongside the two. Armstead says, as he recalls the incident, “We were walking, not saying anything to each other, and this car pulls up, and this white fella opens the door with a gun.” To him and his companion it looked like they were going to be robbed, so they ran. As the gunshots