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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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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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.) Furthermore
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Velasco‚ Jonathan ENGL 375 Ethnic Writers March 9‚ 2015 Writing Response #1 In the novel The Moths And Other Short 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
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Death In the short story‚ “The Moths”‚ the narrator‚ a fourteen year old girl‚ assumes the responsibility of taking care of her cancerous and dying Abuelita. Her Abuelita is the only person who understands the narrator and the only person she feels she can turn to. After having followed man’s rules for so many years‚ Abuelita passes away. All the moths that lived inside her are freed and the narrator learns some life lessons. Helena Maria Viramontes uses symbolism and setting to illustrate the oppression
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Woolf incorporates symbolism in her essay by describing the moth as life and energy. "So simple a form of the energy" and "taken a tiny bead of pure life and decking it as lightly as possible with down and feathers‚ had set it dancing and zig-zagging to show us the true nature of life" quoted from the essay. Another way she incorporates symbolism is by describing the months journey to death. Woolf also describes the scenery‚ the horses‚ and the farm itself. The month had traveled from one windowsill
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“The Moths” There are many parts about Helena Maria Viramontes’ story “The Moths” that I could relate to. I was very drawn to the ways in how similar my experiences were to those of the narrator. I along with my mother had to care after my grandmother whose health was slowly depleting. This young girl transforms because of her experiences and hardships through subjugation by her own culture‚ the struggle for freedom‚ and the grief that came from her grandmothers’ death. I believe Viramontes depicts
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the use of Symbolism and Characterization In the short story “The Moths” by Helena Maria Viramontes‚ the author uses symbolism and characterization to paint the scene of a girl in a literary fiction that has lost her way and ends up finding herself within her Grandmother through the cycles of life. Through the eyes of an unnamed girl we relive a past that has both a traumatic ending and a new leash on life; however‚ we do not get there without first being shown the way‚ enter “The Moths”. The author
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Both Anne Dillard and Virginia Woolf describe the death of a moth in their respective essays to achieve dissimilar ends. Dillard hopes to capture the self sacrificial path of a writer; while Woolf simply wants to draw attention to the strength of an individual’s drive and the even stronger hand of death. Woolf’s description is more effective‚ for she is able to clearly make her point through the description; whereas Dillard’s description and argument are separate‚ and she must connect
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Sarah Lyon October 22‚ 2008 Informative speech Comm. 103 T/R 200-315 The Moth man Lives Topic: The Moth man of Point pleasant West Virginia General Purpose: To provide information on the actual Mothman occurrences In point pleasant West Virginia. Specific purpose: To inform my class to the truth behind the movie the moth man prophecies and let them hear the err tale of the hauntings that are so close to our campus. I. Thesis: The Mothman proposes is a legend about a human side bird like
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