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Kids that need to grow up. Don’t be confused.

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Junot Díaz a spanish writer, writes a story about 2 friends. They were really good friends but because of one incident, it separated them. The reason for the separation of their friendship was because, one of them named Beto was a “faggot”. In this story, Junot Díaz writes using many expressional words. The writer uses any descriptive words that show the readers many expressions at once. These words that the writers choose to use brings up a very strong feeling to the readers. He uses phrases such as ” her finger soothing the creases” which makes you think what are those creases, why are they relevant? All she did, the mother, was take some money from him. So how did that sooth the creases?

Junot Díaz  used alot of representation language in his works. Many of his time he spent with his mother shows that he is the man of the house now, and that he is the father. As he goes with his mother to the shopping mall, giving her about fifty dollars, it reminds him that his father used to give that to his mother. Realizing that, he knew it represented now that he was only partial of the man of the house his father was but he still had to make decisions.

At the time of the incident, while watching porn with his best friend, Beto. Beto reached into his shorts, and complained saying “What the fuck are you doing? This represented that he knew what was right and wrong but he didn’t stop him because he said Beto was his best friend. He knew all of this was wrong and he did all of the actions that represented that he knew it was wrong. He didn’t show up to the mall or anywhere else that he always goes to for fun, hid in the basement, and even rejected his mother’s cries to help him. He knew it was abnormal and didn’t want to end up as a “fucking pato”. All of these actions represented that he knew of these right and wrong.

At the end of the story, she spoke of the windows ” You better check those windows, she says”, I believe this part meant much of a greater deal. Throughout the story, he was constantly reminded of his past with his friend, Beto, before he was a “faggot” and before the incident. His thoughts lingered in his head about how much fun they had together as children but he knew that his friend was wrong. He knew there was different types of love, as a friend love and as a partner love; His friend Beto could not have differentiate that. His mother saying “You better check those windows” meant she was teaching him “you better check yourself again and do not fall in the same situation as your friend did”.

Emily Dickinson-1129

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As I began to read this poem, it was a short poem but so much was put into it. It was worded and phrase so simply but so very unexpecting.

When I read the first stanza ” Tell all the Truth but tell it slant”-, I read this as a bad thing. It seemed as if the devil was telling you something, the truth, but he put in his own wicked lies to deceive you. As I continued on, I wondered what does the dash represent, does it represent a continuous statement or does it break off in a different idea? At that moment I continued and it seemed like it broke off into a motivation phrase. It said ” Success in Circuit lies”, to me that meant a lot in my life. It turned my mood into a very emotional mood, It made me think a lot about, why am I working so hard? Why am I in school? Why are there failures? This was a motivational stanza of course, it meant when you work hard and go through all the tough failures, get back up because in the end is where you will find success.

It goes on to praising success and how it doesn’t matter about age, whether how old you are. I didn’t understand what was “superb”, so I looked it up and it said it is “excellent”. Where it said “The Truth’s superb surprise”, I saw that Truth was capitalized as if it was a Noun or a person or something very important.

She then continues saying “As Lighting to the Children eased with explanation kind” I, myself pictured it as a calming childing coming out of the dark night, scared and finally calming down. It meant, though a child is very comforted by the light and not scared anymore, the comfort is the enemy of truth. She says “The Truth must dazzle gradually Or every man be blinded”. She means it as don’t be blinded by what people say but instead search for the real Truth yourself, if you don’t everyone might as well be naive.