Abuela Invents The Zero
Literary Analysis
Personal experiences shape and affect a person’s values. What is a personal experience? A personal experience is an event that happens to a person that can either be harmful or positive for them. In the stories, “Abuela Invents the Zero” and “Home” personal experiences change not only their values but also make them realize their mistakes. Throughout the story they struggle with certain situations because of their values, but ultimately these situation are what make them reevaluate their values.
The values of a person is what causes them to act a certain way. In the story “Abuela Invents the Zero” Constancia, the protagonist, cares only about what others think, thus she is disrespectful toward her grandmother and disregards her feelings. That’s why Constancia walks behind her grandmother in public and also why she refused to help her when she got lost. In the story “Home,” Yevgeny believes that the way to teach a child not to do something is by lecturing them or giving examples of the negative things that happen by doing it. That is why in the beginning Yevgeny lectures his son and tells him that his uncle died because of smoking. …show more content…
Because Constancia is ashamed of her grandmother, she does not help her when she gets lost and can not find her way back to the pews. This causes Abuela to feel hurt and she locks herself away in a room, that causes Constancia to realize how disrespectful she was being and makes her regret how she has been treating her Abuela. In “Home” Yevgeny tries multiple ways to get Seryozha to understand that smoking is bad, but he eventually gives up. Though on line 63, he makes one last ditch effort to get through to his son. It works and Yevgeny then makes the conclusion that he shall raise his son how he sees it best and not how others advise him
Personal experiences shape and affect a person’s values. What is a personal experience? A personal experience is an event that happens to a person that can either be harmful or positive for them. In the stories, “Abuela Invents the Zero” and “Home” personal experiences change not only their values but also make them realize their mistakes. Throughout the story they struggle with certain situations because of their values, but ultimately these situation are what make them reevaluate their values.
The values of a person is what causes them to act a certain way. In the story “Abuela Invents the Zero” Constancia, the protagonist, cares only about what others think, thus she is disrespectful toward her grandmother and disregards her feelings. That’s why Constancia walks behind her grandmother in public and also why she refused to help her when she got lost. In the story “Home,” Yevgeny believes that the way to teach a child not to do something is by lecturing them or giving examples of the negative things that happen by doing it. That is why in the beginning Yevgeny lectures his son and tells him that his uncle died because of smoking. …show more content…
Because Constancia is ashamed of her grandmother, she does not help her when she gets lost and can not find her way back to the pews. This causes Abuela to feel hurt and she locks herself away in a room, that causes Constancia to realize how disrespectful she was being and makes her regret how she has been treating her Abuela. In “Home” Yevgeny tries multiple ways to get Seryozha to understand that smoking is bad, but he eventually gives up. Though on line 63, he makes one last ditch effort to get through to his son. It works and Yevgeny then makes the conclusion that he shall raise his son how he sees it best and not how others advise him