Esperanza Rising by Pam Munoz Ryan is the story of a Mexican girl who becomes a migrant worker in California Making such a big move in life is never easy but Esperanza must rise above even more problems than most immigrants do In one year she aces many difficulties that change her and make her a better person Migrants often come to the United States because they have been poor all their lives but that is not the case with Esperanza She grows up on a big ranch in Mexico and her family is rich an
Kingston Maxine H The Woman Warrior Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts New York City Vintage Books 1975 Throughout the lives of the early immigrants from China to America there have been many hardships resulting from the transition to an American style culture The traditional Communist culture of their Chinese homeland is too difficult to shed and alter so that the American culture can be obtained In this case that forms an oppressive system of living for the Chinese Americans The story of Maxi
THE JUNGLE By Upton Sinclair Upton Sinclair starts the book off by introducing the setting of two immigrants of America from Lithuania the country north east to Poland The two are about to get married and Sinclair gives examples of the traditional Lithuanian customs of marriages He also shows how it is difficult for Jurgis and Ona to keep alive the traditions being immigrants in America living in Chicago The couple relying on gifts of money from the guest as a tradition doesnt hold their end of
The House on Mango Street In The House on Mango Street Sandra Cisneros talks a lot about the problems that Latino women face in a society that lets men control them A society that is dominated by men and a society that values women for what they look like and not for what is on inside Cisnero also describes how hard it is for Latinos to fit in the American culture especially when there are so many stereotypes against them She also discusses the hardships of language barriers and how those who c
Complicated 1920s society is determined as historical background of this critic story The Great Gatsby Published on the April 10 1925 Francis Scott Fitzgerald had expressed the phase of those times which was around 1920s In the U S A the society had become more complicated after the Great War just ended The writer primarily exerted his ideals through society of 1920s by comprising symbolisms Throughout the story the reality of American Dream had been dissolved Then the story wrapped up with the
John Steinbeck wrote the The Grapes of Wrath in 1939 to rouse its readers against those who were responsible for keeping the American people in poverty The Grapes of Wrath tells the story of the Joad family migrant farmers from Oklahoma traveling to California in search of an illusion of prosperity The novels strong stance stirred up much controversy as it was often called Communist propaganda and banned from schools due to its vulgar language However Steinbecks novel is considered to be his gr
In The Bean Trees friendship is necessary and beneficial to all of the primary characters The first two characters whose friendship benefits each other equally are Taylor and Maddie When Taylor decides to stop in Tuscon Arizona a man tells her that she has two flat tires Taylor is looking for a job to support the new child she has decided to adopt named Turtle and it seems to be fate when Maddie invites Taylor inside To cheer Taylor up after she admits she can not afford new tires Maddie offers
Theme Analysis The characters in Of Mice and Men admit at one point or another to be envisioning of a different life Before her death Curleys wife acknowledges her desire to Lennie to become a movie star Crooks even though he is harsh allows himself the pleasing desire of hoeing a scrap of garden on Lennies farm one day and Candy holds on desperately to Georges dream of owning a couple of acres During the reading of the beginning of the novel circumstances have taken away most of the characters
Life on the American Plains as a Source of Wholeness and Self Sufficiency in My ntonia Willa Cather born in Virginia in 1873 moved to the Nebraska Divide when she was nine years old and then later to Red Cloud Nebraska Her memories of her time in Nebraska and the frontier life she both experienced and observed greatly impacted her writing Although Ms Cather did well as a writer her novels O Pioneers 1913 Song of the Lark 1915 and My ntonia 1918 about heroines of the western frontier led to her
A Dystopian Society The Chrysalids and V for Vendetta After viewing the film V for Vendetta and reading the novel The Chrysalids it is evident that these two pieces are perfect examples of a dystopian society This type of society could be defined as a futuristic imagined universe in which oppressive social control and the illusion of a perfect society is maintained through many different ways Ways such as propaganda appalling treatment of thoughts who are different and a controlling government