capable of understanding the tone from just simply glancing at a few words. The tone is derived from several words and attitudes that the poet conveys to their reader. Poets‚ Pat Mora and Anthony Grooms‚ both use tone in their poems‚ but only one tone changes with the different setting‚ while the other tone remains constant. In Pat Mora’s‚ "Elena‚" the speaker is a Mexican woman who explains how her life has changed due to her and her family moving to the United States. The first line in the poem brings
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because you are diverse doesn’t mean you have to be ashamed. The poem "Immigrants‚" by Pat Mora and the short story "Names/Nombres‚" by Julia Alverez both shows us a lesson about being proud of where you are from and who you are. The authors’ shows that the theme is don’t be ashamed of who you are and they show it by their story and the poem they wrote. Be proud of your heritage and culture. In "Immigrant‚" by Pat Mora‚ expresses that to be proud of your culture. It says that they name their kids’ American
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The word communion in the sense of the sharing of thoughts and feelings is not always necessarily spiritual in nature‚ but also mental exchanges as well. Pat Mora uses this sharing of the intimate thoughts and feelings or communion in her poems. In the poem “Elena” the speaker is describing feeling alienated from her family in the time of their communion as they sit at the kitchen table for dinner‚ due to her inability to speak English. This can be seen in the lines “At night they sit around the
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In the poem ¨Gold¨ by Pat Mora‚ personification is used to represent what the poem means. ¨Gold¨ takes place in a desert and the narrator is a girl. “Gold‚” is a poem about a girl who goes into the desert and feels right. She hangs out with her friends which are lizards‚ rabbits‚ and birds. This poem is told in first person. The tone is soothing and calm. The girl feels she is in sync with nature and she belongs there. She feels like it is her home. In ¨Gold‚¨ one of the examples of personification
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Living in Two Worlds Like every coin has two side‚ there are always two aspects in every human life. You can’t just experience good and happy lifestyle. Like other people I also experienced ups and down in my life. After reading Kim Hoang’s “Chinese in America‚ American in China‚” I feel that the necessity of immigrants to adapt or not adapt to American Culture‚ including speaking English‚ is on the highest level‚ for vocational‚ relational‚ and mental health reasons. For instance‚ the important
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Pat Mora’s unique stories connect children to different cultures and languages‚ thus having the power to inspire them. In Pat Mora’s book Tomás and the Library Lady or Tomás y la señora de la biblioteca (Spanish version) we see how reading opens new worlds and thus enrich a child’s life. The book is about the support a migrant worker family shows to the education of their child‚ Tomás. Tomás’s Papa Grande encourages him to go to the library to find new stories‚ since Tomás knows all of his grandfather’s
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Connection to Ancestors In the poem‚ “Desert Pilgrimage” by Pat Mora‚ it dramatizes the conflict between losing the connection with nature and heritage and the desire to keep the connection alive. The speaker walks through a metaphorical desert‚ which signifies the journey her ancestors took to move from Mexico to the United States‚ and in this journey‚ she reconnects with the earth. She spends her day picking flowers‚ harvesting herbs‚ and at night she sits on a boulder‚ looking at the stars
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2012 Two Different Worlds Two different worlds can mean plenty of things with many similarities. For me living in Philadelphia it means living day and night‚ literally. That’s how I view Philadelphia now at the age of my mid-twenties. It really is like that in my neighborhood. Crossing one street can put you in two different state of minds and can change how you act according to where you are in the city. Therefore I chose to do an observation on two Nail Salons in two completely different locations
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“Living in Two Worlds” by Marcus Mabry is a short story in which he writes about the discomfort he experiences traveling between the two worlds of poverty at home and richness at Stanford. Mabry goes to school with a full scholarship and lives a pretty decent life while his family live in poverty in New Jersey. Some of the things that the author compares are geographical differences between the two world‚ social differences‚ and his guilt feeling toward his family. The author writes about geographical
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physical‚ behavioral or other attributes survived over those who didn’t (Natural Selection) What evidence is there to support the theory of evolution through natural selection? - Fossil- are preserved remains‚ tracks‚ or traces of once-living organisms o Most direct evidence of macroevolution o By dating the rock we can get an accurate idea of how old the fossil is (history of evolutionary change) - Anatomical- reveals similarities between structures of species
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