Summary Self-Evaluation

The most challenging part of writing this summary was to actual put all of my thoughts together and write them in chronological order according to the story. I usually tend to go from point to point all over the story and it was very difficult for me to put them together. Based on the feedback that I got in my paper and information from different handouts I would strongly say that my strengths are my transition words from example to example. I really like the transitions words throughout my summary and I think they’re really strong. For the next summary I will improve my grade by putting more time to it and work on it harder. Putting more dedication to it will get me a better grade.

Anzaldua blog response 2

The difference on the structure on how Anzasldua writes compared to that of different authors is that she uses two different languages throughout her text. Most of the time authors stick to one language around their text. What makes it an academic text is that she follows all of the steps that it requires. Thesis, Paragraphs with main ideas, supporting details and more than 5 paragraphs. What makes it ant-academic is the constant switch of languages that she has all over the reading. I personally have not seen a reading like that before through my educational path. Personally, if I was a critic I would think that her writhing shows a lot of misleading concepts when he switches from one language to the other. I think that Anzulda writes in this way because she wants the reader to feel comfortable and engage while reading. Also because mainly she wants to make her point across that “Chicano Language” is something that we are around every single day and is a language that was created by previous generations in order to have something that they can say belongs to them. We have to keep in consideration that chicanism was a really big issue during the civil rights movement in the 1960’s and Chicanos needed something that they can relate to. What is he trying to accomplish is to let everyone know that the influence a language has to an individual can change and create a whole different perspective to what people think.

Vark Activity.

Kinesthetic.
I was recommended to go see one of my professors during office hours to discuss the way that I learned the best from. I chose my Accounting professor. Since I was having a difficult time trying to figure out our take-home midterm that was due today, I went to see him last Thursday. During the time at his office I brought up the talk about the way that I learned the best from. And I told him that I am a kinesthetic learner, meaning that I learned best by hands-on activities and body movement. We discuss the subject for about 15 minutes and to my surprise, this morning when I walked into class he had an in-class activity that involved movement around the room and “fake” money as our currency for the day. I thought it was pretty cool that he came up with that after I decided to approach him with this issue a couple of days before! :)

Lit. Blog Response #3

What is the value of happiness to Margarita’s family?

Happiness is often described as the quality of being cheerful and content. A lot of us value happiness as much as we value our family members. The state happiness brings joy and family fortunes to all of its members. As we read Rain of Gold, we encounter several moments where family happiness has played a big role in the story. Dona Guadalupe and Margarita family’s stories are two different stories but yet they both have strong values for family Happiness. An specifically example is shown in chapter fourteen when Juan Salvador is living in Montana by himself and gets a telegram from Luisa saying that if he wants to see his mother alive one last time he ought to come home as soon as possible. And without thinking twice about the situation he boards the train that will take him to California. When he arrives to his mom’s house he finds out that in fact his mom was not ill nor was going to die anytime soon. And all that Margarita wanted was to see her last child she had given birth to get married. “The only thing that kept me alive, mi hijito… is the promise that I made you in the desert, that I’d live to see you grow and big and married (224). By saying this, Margarita shows how important is for her to “die” in happiness. Seeing his younger child get married and have a family of his own, for her is the only thing that has kept her alive for all this years that she has being way from Juan. The fact that she wanted Juan to comeback so they can all be together again shows how important the value of family happiness is for her in the family. We can relate this same topic to what is happening with Dona Guadalupe’s family. Dona Guadalupe has this strong believe that Sophia is not death and that one day she will find her. And the moment that she finally does she plants the flower that she brought from Lluvia de Oro and she had promised that she was going to plant it the moment she’d find Sophia. We can think of the floor as being Dona Guadalupe’s happiness. It is mentioned that before she found Sophia the family was thinking she was going crazy, but when they find out that Sophia is alive, Dona Guadalupe comes back to live. As if happiness squeezes her once more.