Laura Resau's The Queen Of Water

Like in all great stories, the climax is one of the best parts in the story. The Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard, is no exception to this with its great fantasy action and plot. The main conflict is Man vs Man, as Mare joins the “Scarlet Guard in hopes of”(pg 115) helping “her family”(pg 17) as she is a Red, “the lower class slaves to the Silvers” (pg 4), against the Silvers, “the ruling class”(pg 5). Although Man vs Man is the main conflict, Man vs Himself is the underlying conflict as Mare tries to identify “who she can trust” (pg 186) during her time at the “summer castle” (pg 59).

In the story “Follow the Water” by Jennifer L. Holm, a girl named Georgie and her family are living on the planet Mars on the search for water. The author of the story brings in a lot of scientific information through the topics of weather, gravity, and water. All of the facts that Jennifer mentions are also in the article “What Would It Take to Live Here?” By Mackenzie Carro. While Georgie is walking down the hall, she shivers because of the eerie feeling she always gets before a dust storm.

In the short story, “Mericans”, written by Sandra Cisneros, there are many underlying conflicts that surface throughout the story. The conflicts, in short, evolve around two very distinguished cultures. Furthermore, the clashing views regarding the two cultures cause a great amount of problems for many individuals in a society. The cultural differences can tremendously affect a society, as the clashing views can lead to a wide array of issues such as ethnocentrism, gender discrimination, stereotypes, as well as the health of many personal relationships. Cisneros begins to develop this conflict when the story’s narrator, Michele, describes the altar to La Divina Providencia in which the “awful grandmother” worships.

A texan woman, named Sandra Bearden was looking for a maid to complete housework and look after her son, so she traveled into a poor village in Mexico and met Maria. Maria, being only twelve years old, saw this as an opportunity to move to the U.S. and receive better education which produced a better life. Sadly, Maria’s dreams were crushed because Sandra began to take advantage of her both physically and mentally. Her punishments for not working included: pepper spray in the eyes, a bottle broken against her head, jamming garden tools up her private areas,

Many people are undermined by the drawbacks of belonging to a low socioeconomic status. In The House on Mango Street, Esperanza is raised in a poor, Latino community, causing her to be introduced to poverty at an early age. This introduction of poverty affects Esperanza in many ways, one including that she is unable to find success. Esperanza struggles to achieve success in life because the cycle of poverty restricts her in a position in which she cannot break free from her socioeconomic status.

They grow up and they grow down and grab the earth between their hairy toes and bite the sky with violent teeth and never quit their anger. This is how they keep.” (Cisneros 93) Esperanza deduces that she must follow their example, and make her way into the world, and for that, she’ll have to move away to, hopefully she wishes, her dream house – her soil for embedding her

In Mexican American society , women are deemed inferior to men, evident in traditional family roles, the male is the head of the family who provides for the family , while the woman stays at home to look after the children she is expected to provide for her husband . In the third vignette of ‘The House on Mango Street’ titled ‘Boys and Girls’ the reader is informed of the division between men and women when Esperanza refers to herself and her sister Nenny , and her brothers, “They’ve got plenty to say to me and Nenny inside the house. But outside they can’t be seen talking to girls”. The male dominance begins at a very young age.

“No, this isn’t my house I say and shake my head as if shaking could undo the year I’ve lived here (Cisneros 106).” This quote shows Esperanza’s unwillingness of accepting her poor neighbourhood because of the violence and inequality that has happened in it. In the House on Mango Street, the author, Sandra Cisneros, shows that there is a direct link between inequality, violence and poverty. The House on Mango Street shows women are held back by the inequalities that they face. Cisneros shows that racism prevents individuals from receiving job opportunities which leads to poverty and violence.

However, sentimentally, author Judith Ortiz Cofer set main characters through non-territorial eyes to prove an American story allows to also be told by an immigrant. The story develops the point of view of one who receives unfair treatment and faces day to day challenges because of where Elena came to life. After reading the title, readers shall understand the characters set story explains are not considered equally. For example, the quote “The other girls picked up on the “pork chop” and made it into a refrain,” (Cofer 1) clarifies Elena became teased daily for her looks. There later became more than just bullying, for ones crush's mom disapproved of her living spaces either.

“The Myth of the Latin Woman: I Just Met a Girl Named María” by Judith Ortiz Cofer and “Mother Tongue” by Amy Tan depict the endeavors people take on in an attempt to integrate into society. Cofer demonstrates how stereotypes of Latina women have led others to misjudge her and explains the difficulty she had disassociating herself from those stereotypes. Tan demonstrates that the “broken” English her mother speaks has led others to think less of her and disregard her. One’s appearance instantaneously causes others to judge them. For some it is easier to blend in and be accepted by their community, but what is it that keeps some people from assimilating, and what effect does their otherness have on them?

Many people do not realize what poverty does to people. J.K. Rowling described it in 2008 as this: “Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships” (Rowling). The underlying meaning revealed by setting in “Volar” written by Judith Ortiz Cofer centers around the poverty that a family of immigrants deals with while trying to survive. “Volar” symbolizes the struggles of poverty through it’s vague description of setting.

As a young child, after being told of how poor her houseboy Fido was, Adichie did not believe his family could also be hardworking. “Their poverty was my single story of them. ”(Adichie) She also details how later, on a trip to Guadalajara she was overwhelmed with shame because her only image of Mexicans was the “abject immigrant” due to the “…endless stories of Mexicans as people who were fleecing the healthcare system, sneaking across the border, being arrested at the border, that sort of thing.” (Adichie)a She was caught by surprise when she saw Mexicans happy and at work in the marketplace.

rika Johansen's "The Queen of Tearling" is an interesting fictional story that takes place in the 24th century, after an undescribed tragedy in the land. The main character is Princess Kelsea Raleigh Glynn, who was raised in exile away from her kingdom. She is described as plain, unattractive, and smart. Princess Kelsea was raised by an extremely strict mother-figure and kind and playful father-figure who have trained her her whole life to become the best warrior she can be. The "problem" that conflicts the story is that Kelsea needs to go and reclaim her kingdom once she turns 19 from the corrupt people who had taken it from her after her mother died.

In 16th-century sources, they found neither victim nor traitor but the strength of a survivor. Malinche did not choose her destiny, but neither did she crumble in the face of adversity. Poems by Adaljiza Sosa-Ridell and Carmen Tafolla explore Malinche’s fate and her abilities to negotiate difficult and competing cultural demands. Their narratives also grapple with the violence of colonization—in history, in Mexico and in the United States. The histories they tell are histories of indigenous and Chicana women, but also of shifting political

After reading the first few chapters of Doomed Queen Anne, I found it intriguing, suspenseful, and easy to relate to, making the story very entertaining to read. I was drawn into the book quickly, as I grew more attracted to all of the characters; Anne especially, because of her clever ways and interactions with the others around her. Anne Boleyn’s coy personality was expressed clearly and her thoughts and personal conflicts were revealed in a way that allowed me to understand her character immediately, both in and out. Her intense relationship, an external conflict with her sister and determination to better her was one of many events that attracted my attention to the story’s plot right away.