Categories: All - destiny - responsibility - inheritance - language

by Alia Gallegos 5 years ago

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The narrative explores how family values shape individual destinies and responsibilities. Cory’s life is influenced by the expectations to succeed in football and education, while Troy feels the weight of providing for and protecting his family against societal racism.

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Does family value impact your life?

Fiesta 1980

I believe there were two responsibilities during the short story. The first I believe that Junot's mother wanted to take the responsibility of always calming down Junot when he is about to throw up and I think Junot's responsibility that he took was to keep his father's secret of his mistress to keep his mother from getting hurt.
Junot's mother as well as him, he felt the hurt in which his father put them through. His mother got hurt from knowing and having that sense that the husband was cheating

One Art

She was in a relationship that didnt work out and continues to say its okay to lose stuff in life because that is the process of life itself
She lost her mother and if she loses her mother's watch it will just be like losing her mother again.

Maslow's Hierarchy

As a human your responsibility is to put your needs before anything which is water,food as main needs to survive and then you decide whether you need love, family etc.

Mother Tongue

Amy and her mother are Chinese and Amy was afraid of her mothers broken English and was afraid of others making fun of her and her mother.
Language
Amy refers her mothers English as "Broken English" and uses that to talk to her mother

Dead End

Maria's choice/ destiny is that her mother had told her she wanted her to go to school and be successful in life, to keep that promise with her mom and to take care of the family and Maria did and she had the choice to break that promise and have fun and be a teenager or keep that promise to her mom and she did exactly that.
In the short story Maria had to take care of her family when her mother passed and didn't really get to be a kid and she had many responsibility
Maria experienced Loss due to her mother passing away and her mother

Why do we hate love

Hurt
When we get hurt and or disappointed by the ones we love we seek for love from others and sometimes hold on to them because we didnt get that love in the past.
Love/Relationship
The love that we receive and do not receive can determine whether we hate love or not.

The Namesake

Responsibility/Family
In the movie Ashima's parents has made her get married and they later on moved to United states and when the family in India would call her to see if she was doing good she would sometimes lies and say yes and say she had a big house because she doesn't want to disappoint her family
Freedom
Moved to the United States from India and is more free here and so will her family and so on.

Coco

Family
Coco is based on Family throughout the whole movie because Miguel is finally finding out what had happened to mama Coco's father and he just loves his family and showed them respect for helping him on his way back home.
Choice/Destiny
Miguel wanted to be a musician even though his family banned him from doing it and wanted him to be a shoemaker
Death/Loss
Miguel is in the past life and that's where his family is and he has crossed over into their world.

Fences

Troy's responsibility is to take care of his family and provide for his family and responsibility to try and protect his son from racism
Choice/ Destiny
Cory's destiny was to go to college and play football and go far in life

El Olvido

Inheritance
The speaker is forgetting the inheritance of being where her birthplace was and her true colors due to moving and changing who she was due to fashion and new environment.
Responsibility
In the short poem the speakers mother felt ashamed that her daughter was forgetting where she was from and who she was. She felt responsible for what was the outcome for moving to the United States.