Mr. Junot Díaz’s paper titled “The Money” is a paper about the struggles of growing up as a Dominican, or less specifically an immigrant, in America. The paper offers a brief gimps into Mr. Díaz’s life as a young man, it shows his family structure and his neighborhood structure. It shows the type of people he had to deal with growing up and how he handled the way these people acted. The point of the text is to show how Mr. Díaz lived as a young man though one specific life experience. The text is also showing that from Mr. Díaz’s perspective it seems to be harder to live in America as an immigrant, an example in the text is when Mr. Díaz writes “The dolt and his family had been in the U.S. all their lives and they had a ton of stuff, a TV in every room, (2)”. In this example, it seems as if he is implying that being more American would make you wealthier. Mr. Díaz is not …show more content…
Díaz to appeal to the reader’s sense of logic, he first has to set up the environment that he lives in. In the text, he says “Now it wasn’t like I could publicly denounce these dolts or go to the police (2).” This shows that no one in the neighborhood would care about his problem or believe him. This also shows that Mr. Díaz truly believed that the police would not care about his problem which means that the most logical thing to do was to go get the money by himself. Additionally, Mr. Díaz gives the reader a real life scenario where he had to take the law into his own hands. Mr. Díaz was given a problem where he had to weigh the good and the bad a make an ethical decision. In this case, he chose to break into someone’s home and get back what belonged to him. additionally, Mr. Díaz writes “It took me two days to return the money to my mother. The truth was I was seriously considering keeping it. I’d never had that much money and who in those days didn’t want a Colecovision? But in the end the guilt got to me and I gave it to her and told her what had happened” (3). This shows
He goes into depth about how the different generations of immigrants affect the economy, “While ‘first-generation immigrants are more costly to governments than are the native-born,’ according to a 2017 report by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, the ‘second generation are among the strongest fiscal and economic contributors in the U.S.” (Coy.) After comparing the separate generations of immigrants, he then continued to compare second generation immigrants to native Americans. “Looking at census records from 1880, the researchers found that men whose fathers were low-income immigrants made more money as adults than the sons of low-income men born in the United States.”(Coy.) This statistic was then narrowed down to looking into how immigrants from different countries affect America’s economy.
Imagine having an opportunity to further your education and build a better future for your family and yourself. Then all of a sudden all of those things have a possibility to vanish out of nowhere and now there is only fear. That is the feeling that many young people are feeling right now across the country. Tim Marema and Bryce Oates write about how the end of DACA affects every single person in the United States. They apply pathos and logos to appeal to the reader by informing them about what the issue is and what will happen.
It demanded attention. It resulted in the death of unarmed civilians. And it didn't go according to plan. In this case Jesse had snatched a collection of worthless paper from the bank, and the man he killed wasn't the intended target.” This bank robbery proves that even the best can make mistakes.
During the 1930’s, Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina was the dictator of the Dominican Republic. Corrupt Trujillo ruled with an iron fist and maintained control by using the unscrupulous patronage system for appointing people to important offices, discretely murdering political opponents, and enforcing strict censorship laws. Many countries invested into the Dominican Republic without Knowing the horrors that the Regime was causing for the povern stricken people. Junot Diaz was raised in the Dominican Republic’s chaos and a sense of unity has been forced upon him for survival as a result.
In an attempt to conceal her own guilt, she
Lines 612-617 What comparison does the author use to describe the family 's situation? What does the comparison suggest about what life is like for recent immigrants to the United States? The comparison the author uses is comparing the family problems to Winter and Spring by saying "Winter becomes Spring , there was a slight thaw each day.
Julio, on the other hand, lives in highly ethnically diverse Los Angeles as one of the immigrant children devoid of family ties. This immediate environment of family is what Bronfenbrenner calls the microsystem. Luis enjoyed a physical presence and handling of the eleven family members in their home. But for Julio, it was a negative experience when aspect of physical development as she just a mere immigrant without parents around to give her moral support. On a worldwide perspective, both Julio and Luis desire a better world beyond theirs.
The analysis of this short story reveals a narrator of an Afro-American community who wanted to be part of the white culture but in vain, because he was confronted to tragic events, such as his brother’s imprisonment at an early age for drugs’ deals. This event makes him realize that he is part of that society where even in the school students are addicted to drugs. The story focuses on the necessity to accept its own community’s heritage as a factor to reach any political social o economical purpose. The narrator finds peace really when he reconnects with his family and his heritage that he tried hard to sacrifice in order to live.
This conflict with herself was resolved well because I felt she accepted her mistake and some conflicts are meant to stay at the hurting period as I learnt and I am seeing that evident here. She came to accept her mistake and instead of sulking and hating life she choose to use her story to educate, warn and prevent others that may go down the path that she once
Many readers of this story can understand that life may be across the border into the United States, but they fail to comprehend to what extent the life is better and Urrea gives a detailed narration that tries to show the difference. Urrea does this well by giving brief overviews of the lives of these men in their home country and what they expect to get once they cross the border. The desperation of the men seeking to cross the border can be quantified in pesos and the men find that they cannot earn enough to cater for their basic needs such as shelter, food and clothing (Urrea, 2008). With the lack of such basic needs the men even find that catering for their children’s need for education is far beyond their reach. Urrea highlights the desperation of families in Mexico and how not only the old suffer, but also the young who miss opportunities because their poor societies have little to offer them.
Also, he shows how cross-class relationships are not really the norm in his story. Diaz argues that socio-economic difference between the rich and the poor in “Monstro” and shows how wealth influences the character of a person and how they live day by day. Diaz argues that the wealthy are immune to the different harms which the poor are more at risk of. He shows this with Alex.
When Cesar was just ten years old, he learned early on and never forgot about the lessons of the lack of fairness in society, justice, and trust, in his life due to the dishonest deal that his father made with the hypocrite and foxy Anglo neighbor. Cesar’s father had agreed to exchange eighty acres of his farmland to receive the endorsement of the forty acres land which was next to the family’s adobe home. After the Anglo neighbor broke the agreement, he sold the land to another person whose name was Justus Jackson. Cesar’s father went to a lawyer to ask for help. The lawyer advised him to make a mortgage loan to buy the land back.
He tells the reader about his life being turned upside down after making one childish mistake. The greaser struggle more than the Socs because they are poor, the Socs jump them, and people think that they are trash. The greasers do not have money or own very much. “We’re poorer than the Socs an the middle class.”
The Latin and American Culture The poem English con Salsa by Gina Valdes reminds me of my home country. I came to this country from Peru and brought my own traditions with me as well. My life is now a mix of American and Latino culture. Valdes poem identify us the immigrants that coming to the United states does not mean losing your culture, but instead it combines both the American and Latino culture.
The common moral of many well known stories is that money doesn 't not equate to happiness. You can live life without money and yet maintain a blissful life. In "On the want of money" however, an essay written by William Hazlitt, the author outright denounces this cliche idea and points to money as a key ingredient to a prosperous life. He claims that money is one 's life line to success in this materialistic world as without it, you will be subjected to the constraints of poverty and it 's harsh effects. Hazlitt builds on his argument of the necessity of money through his use of powerful diction,clever syntax through long repetition,logos, and an assertive tone.