Short Story: Moving To America

In Ada Maria Isasi-Diaz Mujerista Discourse: A platform for Latinas’ Subjugated Knowledge, she talks about the term “Lo Cotidiano” which translates to “the everyday” (Isasi-Diaz pg. 46), and she explains how this term is more complex than the actual meaning. She also explains that ‘lo cotidiano’ and the way every person lives their ‘cotidiano’ connects with the main idea of Mujerista Discoourse. In her writing, she discusses some personal experiences which bring a better understanding to the true meaning of lo ‘cotidiano’. Isasi-Diaz gives an in-depth explanation to what ‘lo cotidiano’ really means, or what it should mean.

Though Clare had begun to turn her life around, and even embrace the culture she had shut out of her mind and life, she lost it all. When her husband, John Bellew, found out she had been lying to him throughout their whole marriage, he went to confront her at a party she had been attending with Irene and Brian. This did not go as planned for anyone involved, though maybe it did end the way Clare had planned. John went up to Clare by the window, and Irene rushed to her side. The next thing the both of them knew, Clare was gone.

After finding this out Alice goes back home in hopes of being able to control her life again. Luckily she does but she is also a target to her old drug using friends. They accuse her of several things and they are destined for revenge. So one day while Alice is babysitting, she is drugged without her knowledge and has a horrible trip.

Jane has reached a point of desperate loneliness, and is willing to do whatever she can to find a partner in her life. Leon realises that he is still in love with his wife Sonja, and is able to reach out to his family, and try to repair what has been damaged. He still has a family, and is in a less vulnerable situation than Jane. Jane continues to act out, seeking a lover to comfort her in her loneliness, and pushes away her friend Paula in order to do so. Due to the desperation she feels at being alone in the world, she continues to wreak havoc, indifferent to the

Her mother passed away when she was young leaving a significant gap in her much-needed parenting. Jules turned to heroine to cope with his grief but became addicted and went from being Baby’s best friend to a complete stranger. He took the use of drugs too far, becoming physically and verbally abusive towards her. Jules eventually caused her to run to the streets where she fell into the arms of Alphonse, a known pimp. Once associated with the pimp she began to, in her own words, “turn tricks”.

She is well aware of the consequences if she gets caught driving two illegal immigrants across the country. Even though this may have been a selfless act, she did it for some selfish reasons. Of course she wanted to help two of her friends find a sanctuary, but she also used this trip to spend time with Estevan, whom she was in love with. She also used Estevan and Esperanza to get custody of a child who was in her

The short story, “Melinda,” by Judy Doenges, primarily focuses on an addict’s first-person account of her life as a meth addict. Fritzie, formerly the well-off Melinda Renée von Muehldorfer, is a habitual drug abuser living on a meth farm where she is surrounded by other meth addicts. Later on in the story, it is revealed that a second component of their operation is identity theft - Fritzie returns to her childhood neighborhood to steal a local family’s credit card information. The story relies heavily on this first person point of view, which allows the reader to enter the fictional reality that the protagonist is living in, while simultaneously providing a striking, if not comedic, contrast to the real world (the world that the reader lives in).

A major theme of the film is how the main characters, especially Raul and Lila, perceive the United States and how that image changes over the course of the film. Raul 's perception of what life will be like for them in America is very skewed. He dresses nicely for the intense 90 mile journey because he believes he will be easily able to find his absentee father right as he arrives in Miami. No details are revealed about Raul 's father or when he left, but in Raul 's mind, his father has become very successful and must own a sports car and be involved with lots of women. This concept of the American dream is not real for many people who immigrate here and Lila lets Raul know this during the trip.

“We raced off, wondering how to fit the contents of our Dominican lives into four small suitcases.” After Julia found out about the big move, her family was concerned if they were going to get to the United States safely. Julia accepted her personal identity by, learning english, so in the future would help the move be easier to the

Turns out his friend lied and he was actually poor and struggling too. So Jurgis traveled to America with his father,wife, his wife stepmother,her children, and his brother or cousin. I forgot if it was his brother or cousin. They all go to America with such big dreams and hopes but it all gets shut down when they get there. When they first get there they have to stay in a woman’s crowded house.

They stopped at a local grocery store to find the items to make dinner that night. They had decided to make fettuccine chicken alfredo with a side of ciabatta bread. For dessert, they were gonna make Megan’s favorite dessert, chocolate chip skillet cookie. Everyone was super excited to get home and began cooking. They checked out at the store and realized they had been gone for about an hour.

Her life's jeopardize after her husband finds out. Fortunately she is spared by her decision and is saved by

Liz Murray’s mother and father were drug addicts living in the Bronx. She was born in 1980 with drugs in her blood because her parents religiously uses cocaine and heroin. (Murray 11). A vicious cycle of her parent’s use of drugs and mental illness seem to carry throughout several chapters. Murray and her sister survives on egg and mayonnaise sandwiches, toothpaste, and even cherry-flavored chapstick.

Soon Sara is addicted to the pills and begins to have hallucinations. The hallucinations begin to make her think her refrigerator is attacking her; because of this, she becomes anorexic because she is afraid of food. Her hallucinations even go as far as making her think that she is on the TV show portraying herself as the perfect woman with a perfect family like she has always dreamed of. She even brags about her son and his wife and how successful he

Moving is always hard. It is harder if you are moving from your birthplace to a culturally different country after spending most of your teenage years. I moved from Bangladesh to New York about a year and a half ago and let me tell you, it was not easy. I had to leave the place I grew up in, my friends and relatives and start a new life here in America. Probably the only good part was that at least I was with my family throughout this hardship.