Photobiography

I have no idea when this picture was taken. I do believe that I was one or so. The photo itself is ripped at the top and was stuck to the plastic in one of my various family photo albums. The two people standing next to me are my mother and father.When I look at this photo I find it really interesting because I think that I looked pretty funny as a baby, but I really like this picture anyways because out of my three other siblings, I have the least baby pictures. I like that I have a solo picture with my parents. Although I have only a few, I love them all. I remember my mom would always dress me and my siblings up. If we went somewhere, you would always see me and my two sisters dressed in these puffy dresses. I loved them. My aunt always tells me stories about how my mom would always have us dressed like little dolls. She would tell us about all the hair accessories she would buy us. I always thought that was really cute. Its really funny that we still have a lot of our gold baby jewelry

I’ve always had the best parents ever. They were always so loving and basically amazing. It’s funny because I have very old fashioned, strict parents and although it can be annoying at times, I appreciate it. In the end, it just means that they love us and want the best for us. I think my dad looks pretty  funny here too with that weird mustache, but I appreciate that its in the photo because if not, then I would have never gotten to see it and make fun of him. That was the good thing about my parents growing up. They were strict, but were also very playful and loving. This photo reminds me how lucky I am to have such great parents.

Sandra Cisneros, “Woman Hollering Creek”

In Sandra Cisneros, “Woman Hollering Creek”, telenovelas play a big role in the their lives. After reading the story I noticed that Cleofilas dream life was probably like the lives of the women from the telenovelas. Where she grew up, there isn’t a lot to do. Its not very exciting. In telenovelas theres always a lot going on and the protagonists that are in love always end up together. You can tell that the telenovelas influenced her a lot because she would compare certain parts of her life to them. She would watch the way the women would do their hair and make up and would even buy a hair dye to get the actresses hair color. The love aspect of the telenovelas influenced her the most. She compared how love should be in real life compared to them, although that’s not how it really turned out. She didn’t realize that love isn’t always like the telenovelas until she saw how damaging it was for her to have an abusive husband. I think that Cleofilas always wanted her life to be like a telenovela, but life doesn’t work that way. I don’t think she ever pictured her life to be how it turned out. I think this is why she wanted to leave her husband. The telenovelas seemed to give her life lessons, and it looks like she would take mental notes.

Glossary Write up

Passe

Perpetual

Perennial

Pecuniary

Inextricably

Congenial

Fretful

Perplexing

Cultivating

Forestall

Epithet

Paternalistic

bell jar

euphoria

Shawl

This glossary assignment was a very good idea because not only it improved our vocabulary but it helped us understand the reading more clearly. The assignment also put me in a habit to define every word that I don’t know the meaning to. Defining all these words didn’t help me understand all the passages, becasue some passages had easy words, but it definitly helped me with the harder passages.