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

1) Aquiver

2) Puritanical

3) Conscientiously

4) Cultivating

5) Eccentric

6) Seldom

7) Untenanted

8) Congenial

9) Temperament

10) Mutilated

11) Pitiful

12) Coherent

13) Inevitable

14) Enlightenment

15) Analogical

I thought that the glossary entry’s can definitely help someone if they study and memorize the word. If you just write the glossary entry to write it then nothing is going to happen for you. You will not really gain anything from it. Overall, it was a bit annoying to write, but it is helpful if you actually remember the words and use them in the future.

Analogical

Analogical:( Adjective)

Definition:logic, maths  a form of reasoning in which a similarity between two or more things is inferred from a known similarity between them in other respects

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Oh, we Smiths are ardent seekers after the spirit of Christmas, and we do not listen to Iris Murdoch’s sensible analogical advice: ”Good represents the reality of which God is the dream.” We’re chasing the dream, baby.

This just means that they didn’t want to follow their advice, which was in the form of reasoning.

Enlightenment

enlightenment: Noun

Definition:the state of being enlightened.

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Outsiders do best if they seeketh neither enlightenment nor the remote control.

This just means that they weren’t looking for neither of these two things.

Inevitable

Inevitable:(Adjective)

Definition:unable to be avoided.

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But I also felt the weird relief which comes from knowing that the inevitable destruction of precious things, though done in your house, was not done by your hand.

What is being said here is that they are happy that they didn’t ruin the picture because precious things are always going to be destroyed in your house.

Coherent

 Coherent: (Adjective)

Definition: logically connected

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They dreamed dreams that no one knew-not even themselves, in any coherent fashion-and saw visions no one could stand.

I think that this means that they would just see the same visitors all of the time.

 

Pitiful

 Pitiful: (Adjective)

Definition:evoking or deserving contempt by smallness, poor quality

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Who were these Saints? These crazy, loony, pitiful women? Some of them, without a doubt, were our mothers and grandmothers.

This just meant that the women are like not seen as much.

Mutilated

 Mutilated: (Verb)

Definition: to injure, disfigure, or make imperfect by removing or irreparably damaging parts

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They stumbled blindly through their lives: creatures so abused and mutilated in body, so dimmed and confused by pain, that they considered themselves unworthy even of hope.

This just means that  these creatures were so abused and injured, and the body was confused with pain.

Temperament

Temperament: (Noun)

Definition: the combination of mental, physical, and emotional traits of a person.

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I described her own nature and temperament.

This just meant that she was describing her mental, physical, and emotional traits.