Author Archives: RAYMELIS HERNANDEZ

Displacement happens when something is being moved from one place to another. The Displaced: Introduction by Jake Silverstein explains how the world has been created by wars and the things we are not noticing come after or during wars. For example, as the article explains the suffering that is behind every family including the children that are losing their parents. I chose this article because it explains what wars are doing to children. During a war if the children are not killed the child will end up displaced to an extraneous place where they will not know anyone. This displacing phase of the children’s life is not always as easy as people imagine they suffer and sometimes children end up in depression. Not always happens because of the displacement is because of why they had to displace from. This article represents how displacement not only happens when moving to another country, usually it happens in the same country and currently because of wars.       

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/08/magazine/the-displaced-introduction.html

Yunior, who is the author of Fiesta 1980, is a young boy who suffers from an apparently carsickness. When a person throws up, in this case Yunior, is cleaning themselves and throwing out everything they have inside. However, Yunior carsickness might be related to the stress and and the unconformity he feels every time he is with his father. “…every time I was in that VW and Papi went above twenty miles an hour, I vomited” (27) Clearly Yunior is feeling the pressure every time he went out with his father. Early in the story Yunior specified that he just wanted the love from his father. The car sickness comes from the secret Yunior has to keep just to not hurt his mother even though his father is not forcing him to hide it from her. The car sickness symbolises the way Yunior wants to express everything he has inside, like the way he wants to be treated and the secret from his dad. The dad shows his authoritative behavior upon his son not noticing the abuse his is causing and the way Yunior retains his emotions by vomiting.   

• Moving to a new country without having any knowledge (Language)
• The struggle to learn a different language
• Being separated from most of your family and meeting another big part of your family.