Kenny Quach's Home, A Pastiche Vignette

“Home”, a pastiche vignette written by Kenny Quach, resembles Cisneros's vignettes because of the similar literary styles, including symbolism and imagery, that are applied. A major symbol in the pastiche is represented in two posters in the narrator’s room. The posters the narrator directly sees are “two nice cars. A purple Bugatti and yellow Lamborghini” (Quach). The author utilizes the nice cars to symbolize the narrator’s potential wealthy future. Furthermore, the symbols portray the narrator to be a positive determined character who is a believer, never gives up, works hard, and will one day reach the potential fate. The narrator’s potential fate helps the readers to discover the universal theme of the future is just a reward for