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    Stories‚ Helena Maria Viramontes writes the life’s struggles of what Latinas in Los Angeles‚ and maybe around the world‚ may have to experience through the different Latina characters in the novel. Each chapter represents a different experience these Latinas may face as they become adolescents and enter adulthood. The characters in the novel cover different aspects of a Latina’s life as they experience abortion‚ religion‚ family culture and even death. These experiences are told by Viramontes‚ who herself

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    Idea in Helena Maria Viramontes’ “The Moths” PAPER#1(CENTRAL IDEA) The short story “The Moths” by Helena Maria ViraMontes is the story of a Latina granddaughter reminiscing about her relationships between herself and family‚ most specifically with her grandmother‚ when the narrator was a teenage girl. The narrator speaks about the indifference she felt among her sisters because she feels she was not pretty enough and could not “do the girl things they could do” (ViraMontes 1118.)

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    “Finding One’s Self in Times of Trouble”: An explication of the Helena Maria Viramontes’ novel Under the Feet of Jesus. Helena Maria Viramontes’ Under the Feet of Jesus portrays the maturing of Estrella‚ a young Latina that seems to awaken in many different aspects of her life. The author’s use of Estrella give the book its strength and potency. Estrella is an affectionate character‚ which is at the center of all the important issues. She is used a symbol to represent the small amount of strength

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    Throughout Under the Feet of Jesus by Helena Viramontes‚ the struggles of Estrella and her family have a sobering effect‚ demonstrating the hardships that migrant workers endure. Near the end of the novel‚ when Alejo was takin to the clinic and tended to by a nurse‚ Estrella has an epiphany‚ a defining moment. “Estrella had figured it out: the nurse owed them as much as they owed her." This revelation is in my opinion one of the most important aspects of the book. In modern day America‚ most of

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    Theme Development in “The Moths” by Helena Maria Viramontes When one is internally consumed by resentment‚ they become isolated and it takes an extreme event such as a great loss to regain inner peace. A young teen in the story “The Moths” is the outcast in her family. She isn’t girly or dainty like the rest of her sisters. The narrator almost always feels alone‚ even at church. The only person that can make her feel safe is her grandmother. At first the young teen represents immaturity. Hitting

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    Rubens‚ His Wife Helena Fourment‚ and One of Their Children (circa 1635) Rubens’ painting “Rubens‚ His Wife Helena Fourment‚ and One of Their Children” is a very large‚ measuring 80¼ x 62¼ in.‚ oil painting on a wood. It’s a family portrait of Rubens himself with his wife and their son. When Rubens married his second wife Helena Fourment‚ on December 6‚ 1630‚ she was only sixteen years old. He was already fifty-three at that time. Helena became the model and the inspiration for many paintings by

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    Family‚ Catharsis‚ and Self-Realization in Viramontes’ “The Moths” Most people believe that it is inevitable for children to grow up and be just like their parents‚ even though they may have disagreed with the discipline and vowed to never be like them. Naturally‚ the way we are raised is the way we will raise our children. It is our human nature as adults to do things the way our parents taught us‚ which they learned from their parents‚ and their parents from theirs. However‚ carrying traditions

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    Maria Bochkareva Becca Roberts 4th 2-25-14 Russia had rules forbidding women joining the army‚ but some did. For the first few years of the war‚ the few women who actually fought in the front lines required required the complicity of military officals-- except one. Maria Leontievna Bochareva was the third daughter of a pesant family. She as born in Novgorod Oblast in 1889. Badly beaten by her alcoholic father‚ she left home at fifteen to marry Afansi Bochkareva. The couple moved to Tomsk

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    The Dark Consequences of Ripe Peaches In Under the Feet of Jesus Viramontes plays with the heartstrings of those who read the story. It explores deeply the subjective and symbolic violence of the exploitation and destruction of migrant workers. The beautiful prose fantasizes the horrid conditions and everyday struggles that plague the family. With one misstep they are crushed beneath the societal system that is meant to even out the playing field. They are set up to fail. The focus is not truly

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    Topic: The effects of tradition and how it displayed in short stories “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson‚ and “Marriage is a Private Affair” by Chinua Achebe. Tradition is something you pass down through generation to generation. Something that usually is a long established custom or belief that has been passed on a certain way. When the word tradition enters your mind‚ no one comes to think that tradition may have negative effects. Times have changed‚ should the way we live our lives change along

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