The text “Dating Your Mom,” is a satire. The text shows sarcasm and makes fun of a family’s love and how people treat their mother, for example he talks about looking your mother in the eyes and telling her she is beautiful. The story is also a large hyperbole it exaggerates your connection with your mother and what seeing your mother as beautiful and outgoing really is. Reading it may make some people squirm because it sounds inappropriate but that is what satires do. They make you feel a certain type of way which just may be disgust. I did not really laugh at this story but I did let go a chuckle once or twice.
8. What is Kimberly’s opinion of Mr. Al? pg.75
Mr. Al is the man whose shop Kimberly’s family lives on top of. Mr. Al and Kimberly have a connection, and she feels comfortable around him. Like one time Kimberly told Mr. Al about the time the ice cream man ripped her off. Then, Mr. Al did something to him so the ice cream gave her a candy necklace. 7. What words best describe a character? pg.83 The character I chose is Uncle Bob. For one he is Aunt Paula’s husband. He was also American- Chinese. He owns a factory where Kimberly and her mother work. He is also very sneaky. 3. How did the conflict between Kimberly and Luke begin? Pg.90 Luke had always been known as the sixth grade bully. He had been looking at Kimberly funny for days without saying anything to her. Then one day when she was walking with her lunch her lunch tray he stuck his foot out. Kimberly simply stepped over his foot. Then Luke stood up and told Kimberly he wanted to fight. This is when their conflict first began. 2. What is the conflict of the text? Pg.101 Kimberly is going to visit Harrison High School. Harrison is an academy that accepts children with no money or a scholarship. Sadly Kimberly has no money but her principle ends up getting her a scholarship. But her problems only start their, Kimberly’s mother is unable to attend her interview and she is unsure what she is going to say. Her English is really bad. I liked Like Water for Chocolate more than A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings. A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings just didn’t interest me even though it was writing ok. In a very old man, I could visualize some things like the old man’s win being dark and somewhat ugly. I could picture this man being faced down in mud. I could also see a very looking spider woman, telling her horrid tale. A Very Old Man has long sentences with several commas. A very Old Man takes place at the man that
found the old man, Pelayo’s house and farm. They kept the man with wings inside a chicken coop, while everyday people would come and either try and make a wish or just annoy him. Having to deal with this for several days he starts to die slowly, and then a woman that had been turned into a spider comes into the picture. She not only looked like horrid tarantula, but her story was horrid and she had no issue sharing it. This gave her a lot of fame and took the “fame” from the old man. All that was left for him was to grow old in Pelayo’s yard that by then was a mansion with gates around it. After the crowds left the man continued to die, then after so much time went by he went walking along the beach and he disappeared. This story made me kind of sad that he had to suffer what he did,but in the end he left. In Like Water for Chocolate, not only could I visualize what was going on I could almost taste the variety of foods being cooked. Like the sausage in the Christmas rolls. I could see Tita being beaten by Mama Elena. I could feel the tension that would rise every time Tita and Pablo would make eye contact around the family, or how it was so much tension that moment when Rosaura and Tita got into an argument and Rosaura let Tita know that she knew what was going on with her and Pedro. This story was a love triangle if you have never seen one! Tita and Pedro are in love but their love can’t prosper because of Tita’s mother, Mama Elena. Mama Elena wouldn’t let them get married because of their family history that the youngest has to stay with their mother until she dies. So Mama Elena offers Rosaura to Pedro, and he accepts only because he feels like it would bring him closer to Tita. Sadly it doesn’t, it only worked for a little while. Rosaura, Pedro, and their son Roberto move to San Antonio, which gave Tita time to connect with Dr. Brown. That and family issues caused her to stay with him. At this point Tita begins to think she is so in love with Dr. Brown, but then Pedro comes back because Mama Elena died. Then Tita begins to have mixed feelings but still feels she love Dr. Brown, until Pedro made her realize what she knew (that she loves him). There are more stumbling blocks they have to conquer, but they do and show that love conquers all but at the same time is the thing that kills you, literally! The recipes kind of threw me off though, but I still liked it. Though these stories are very different, they are also kind of similar. They both used a lot of commas and they both show so much magic realism. Like let alone the title,“A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings,” that’s physically impossible but not mentally. In Like Water for Chocolate, the foods she prepared would make different people feel different things, for example her Quail in Rose Petal sauce made Gertrudis become aroused. All throughout these stories they showed things similar to these examples, which made them more interesting. |