Cloudstreet by Tim Winton explores the relationship between family and identity. Winton does this showing us his views on families. Over the twenty years, the family members develop strong bonds between each other and also themselves. To show us this he has used the actions of the characters and the...
I always dreamed of America as a place with golden streets and golden opportunities, well I was right about the opportunity but the streets were far from golden. When papa was finally able to afford me and mamas fare for the boat ride to New York, I found out my beautiful picture of America was all ...
While on an electric scooter I noticed my older sister Rosa catching up to me. As we're racing each other our mom is holding our baby sister Emilia in her arms and at the same time yelling at us "Stop fooling around or you're going to hear a mouth full from your dad!" Giggling, we turn our scooters ...
Within the novel she's come undone, the main character Dolores Price struggles with reality and tries to understand her life. All the people Dolores loved, either abandoned her, died, or betray her. Her father abandoned her when she was still young and her boyfriend Dante had abandoned her when she ...
I will never forget the last phone call I got from my father. My mother was downstairs cooking dinner and I was upstairs in my room getting my things together for school. We only had one phone in the house and it was downstairs. The phone rang and I remember thinking to myself it was probably my bro...
This space has created a hole of sorts in the tradition of the Joy Luck Aunties; they already feel their old world ways slipping away from them, especially when they realize how fruitless it has been to try and bring their daughters into this world. ...
Part 1 When I was a young girl, I lived in Warsaw Poland with my mother father and baby sister Basia. My life was happy and carefree, until the day the planes began dropping bombs from the sky and the men with the shiny black boots came marching into our city. We were scared and unsure of what woul...
