The opinion of Cisnero Sandra?

In the house on the Mango street by Sandra Cisnero, told through the format of vignettes. Cisnero Sandra has place many deep symbolism within the vignettes. Some of them are the color of window, sky, and many others things. Cisnero Sandra may also input her opinion of should parent/guardians of teenage girl raise them different from teenage boy? It has been vaguely hinted that the society is covering up and trying to keep teenage girl from researching topics unless they experiences it them-self first hand.

Cisnero Sandra has wrote a vignette which describe that the society has been trying to cover up and hide things from teenage girls and those girls won't ever notice them unless they experience the truth first-hand.. In the vignette "Red Clowns," Cisneros narrates Esperanzas' sexual assult. Experanza expresses her confusion about the ideas she had always heard about regarding romance and love:

All the books and magazine, everything that told it wrong.

This is what Esperanzas' express after the sexual assault. This show disbelief and lies from the society. The real things is technically different from what the books or magazine will ever say but why does the society do this? Why does they want to hide the truth from teenage girls? The answer that Cisnero would answer is that the reason for all of this is that the society has been trying to raise girls and boys the same way. This naturally create a problem for them as when the boys and girls grow up to teenage boys and girls, they would learn about their sexuality and they would soon learn that the method is not the best. The way to prevent this that the society tried is using the media to control the truth and lies.

Also, even though there are the problems of lies from the society, there are also typical stereotype. The most common stereotype for girls is that they grow up to prepare for marriage. This, however, is false. The reason for this is being not all teenage girls grow up to prepare for marriage. Some become lesbian or just anti-guy. Other decide not to develop a romantic or marriage relationship. Meanwhile, the society once again use the media to show that teenage girls are grow up to prepare for marriage.

Since you always get to look beautiful, ... and take you to live in a big house far away. (26)

This has a implication that if teenage girls are look beautiful, then they will easily attract a good partner for marriage and get to live a luxury life. This is a  misconception of the society that they tried to make teenage girl believing. The reason I would say it is a misconception because that actually never happen in the vignettes. Also this opinion seem one-sided to me as what if the teenage girls refuses the marriage proposal. What if she is actually a lesbian? All of those possible possibility create a counter effects for the opinion. This is the implication that Cisnero Sandra has tried to implied.

What next after a decision?

In The House on the Mango Street by Sandra Cisnero is a book that is told through many vignettes.Its mostly focus on the main character life as most event is related to or focus on: Esparanza. The start of the story is Esparanza has been moving a lot in her life. She has moved into the Mango Street. This causes her very displeasure as she doesn't like the house on the mango street as she feels that she won't ever enjoy living in that house.

Life

1. The start of everything
2. Once upon a time
3. Eyes
4. Name

The start of everything

I am here. I am in United States, but it seems different from what I have heard. It is not full of noisy metallic objects I heard about when I was in the airplane. It does not contain streets crowed with everyone from other ethnicities. This area is just empty. I did not know during that time that this area is the parking lot, and no one ever comes here unless they are about to leave or just arrive here. Suddenly, a figure gestures at us.

Over here, said the stranger as he approaches closer.
My mother welcomes them with, hello.

          By now, I can see who those people are. It is my cousin and his family. My cousin belongs to my mother’s side of the family branch. His mother and my mother are siblings. They are a family of four. First is the second child, Stroy, a fat and perhaps stubborn as well as spoil. Second is the third child, Kong. Kong is smaller and younger than Stroy and he is more obedient than Stroy when given orders. Kong is like a monkey while Stroy is like big fat fluffy cat.

            This is truly United State, I thought as I approach the car. This car was very strange and is different looking than those in my hometown. It have a shape of round yet not round, rectangular yet not rectangular. The outer-layer is white, but the inner-layer is black. There are engine here and there, and strange mechanics that I never seen before.  Although I heard about this strange car before, it was still a fascinating sight. Suddenly, in the sky come a blue balloon flying up toward it's as if the sky is embracing the balloon itself.

Once upon a time

            Before Stroy was born, there was a sad tragic story for his family. Stroy is the second son of his family. He have a brother... excuse me, used to have a brother. Alex, his name was, was murdered... no, that not right, he wasn’t murdered, he was killed by a automobile accident. Nevertheless, he was killed, as a young toddler. My auntie and uncle has tried to sue that driver, however, he manage to escape by a fine of 10,000 thousand dollar. No prison, nothing, just a fine of 10,000 and he was release free of guilt. With that, Stroy and his family never gotten a true revenge against that killer. Every year, Stroy and his family pray for him every year in May.

            Even though they try to forget about the accident, I still remember every year, Stroy and Kong are very dispirited during the month of May. Stroy said that he never wanted a older brother, however, sometime I feel that he is just lying so that his parent won't be sad. This is the story of a tragic death place upon a family.

Eyes

            Eyes is a mysterious thing. It is like a mirror, reflecting the personality. An eyes is like a object that can reflect the inner-heart of even the most cruel person.

            The eyes of my family are different. My dad eyes are like a newborn, always with curiosity. My sister eyes is vigorous just like a marathon rat. Always want to do something and endure through it alone. My mother eyes are searching, always searching for. They all have a similarity between each other. They yearn for the future in order to do something.

            I, however, am different from them. My eye do not yearn for the future. My eye, isn't energetic and active, it is lazy. My eye don't want to do nothing because of too much trouble. My eye is small and it may be a coward, but   it never want to give up. My eye is dangerous, it always shows sign of rebellious. My eye isn't good at all.

Name

            Different name may held different meanings. Stroy Chinese's name mean grow up successfully. This fit Stroy personality as he is very childish, but very serious when it come to work. The last time I see him he was able to change quickly from playing into working. Kong Chinese's is unique unlike mine. It mean safely protecting others. This name can held different meanings in different situation. However, I am sure when Uncle and Auntie create this name, it must mean to protect the family from previous past.

            The name within my family generation is also different and unique. My sister name is Mi Vanh, meaning good will. This applies to her as well. Even though she is very mean and sometime very scary, she doesn't mean true harm. But my name, my name is kind of different. My name is Vinh, though my Chinese's name held the meaning of caring to others. I don't think this apply to me at all since I don't nessacary feel that my action does that.

The color purple

The Color Purple by Alice Walker is an epistolary novel about an African-American woman called Celie and Nettie. The Color Purple has a lot of drama and realistic situations mostly about gender inequality. The story vaguely describes Alice Walker personal opinion of many things such as marriage or having a child. These opinions set-up many of the realistic situations and also shows gender inequality of the society and one of the possible answers to overcome the stereotype of woman. Gender Inequality is when one gender look down upon another gender.. Gender inequality is a way to slow down woman path to success while education is the path that woman should take to overcome these stereotype inequality of woman. This important distinction manifests in the differences between Celie and Nettie throughout the novel.

Celie’s and Nettie’s world’s is mostly about gender inequality and the story mostly focuses on this kind of situation. Celie’s good friend and close relative, Sofia, gets arrested for assault after being rudely asked to be a maid.  When Celie’s husband, called simply Mr. ___, tries to visit her in jail, he and the police talk about women. The conversation is later recounted in one of Celie’s letters:

“Sheriff says, she a crazy woman, your boy’s wife.

Mr. ___ say, yassur, us do know it. Been trying to tell Harpo she crazy for twelve years.” (86)

This quote is seen through Celie’s eyes. This shows gender inequality where it proves that the men around her think that woman are the same and they think they know everything about woman. This is not true because men does not know everything about woman. This is also why later on in the story Celie decide to rebel against Mr.___ because she couldn’t take anymore of how they are treating woman.
During later of the talks, they decide on saying more cruel stuff about woman which hint how the society look at woman. It is proven here when the Sheriff and Mr. ___ agrees on how most if not all the woman they know are crazy:

“...Mr.___ say, it not her fault. And then again, the Sheriff know how woman is, anyhow.

Sheriff think about the woman he know, say, yep, you right there.” (86)

This quote support my claim and also shows men don’t think much about woman and believes that they don’t have any values. This is clearly gender biased and could become gender inequality. The biased might be woman are stupid or they can’t think for their self or even perhaps a lower intelligence life form. This shows that during this time the society look down on woman very much. This results in lower standing in the society and almost no benefit at all and making it hard for woman to get a job, but that is not all that a woman will just face from a lower standing in the society. Woman will also face no respect, the path of success seem to be not for woman, and some of them will actually fall into the mentality of how all woman are just stupid.

Meanwhile, during this time, woman who are educated and is literates are way better off in the society than woman who are illiterates. Nettie,who have gone to school and received years of education was invited to Africa to help a couple of missionaries while on the other hand Celie is still getting beat-up by Mr.___. Celie later on find this letter written by Nettie which Mr.___ tried to hide from her:

“The reason I am in Africa is because one of the missionaries that was supposed to go with Corrine and Samuel to help with the children and with setting up a school suddenly married a man who was afraid to let her go, and refused to come to Africa with her... with a ticket available and no missionaries to give to... I wasn’t able to find a job anywhere around town. But I never dreamed of going to Africa’s... Samuel and Corrine and even the children talked about it all the time.” (130)

This quote shows opportunity that Nettie gain by traveling and being educated which is also literate. Meanwhile, Celie, still stuck at Mr.___ home getting beat-up, Nettie is on her way to Africa. If Nettie weren’t educated and literate, then it is highly doubtful that she will get this kind of opportunity and perhaps even get treatment from the couple. It is suspect that they only treat Nettie so nice because she have a understanding of their religion and is also faithful. This shows benefited of Education in the society. Educated woman seem to have a higher standing and is more respected than woman without education. The educated woman may have a lower standing compare to man in the society, but the choice they have is widely enhance if you compare it to the woman without education. This show gender inequality in “the color purple” world.
This quote also shows the method of how men manipulate woman. Mr.___ try to make Celie believe that Nettie is dead and control her as she is grieving about Nettie death. This is then hinted that other men might do the same to control the woman and to show who is the boss. It is possible for Celie to break away from this chain and gain at least a few respects, however, Mr.___ prevent this opportunity from Celie. This, again, show the cruel reality of how woman is treated in this book and perhaps even in the real world.

Within the color purple lies the world of Celie and Nettie. Even though they faced hardship, it is still a place that hold the dreams of them both meeting each other against after being separated from each other. However, being a woman, they both face hardship and gender inequality everywhere they go. The society in the world that Celie and Nettie live in is a especially cruel one toward woman. However, despite everything, they kept hope and in the end see each other again.

Whaaa?

Voting age has always been a problem. In 1971, congress pass down the 26th amendment which change the voting age from 21 to 18 (Here). Before that, voting age minimum was 21, but why was the 26th amendment proposed to the constitution? The reason is simply, the government need younger people to participate or else it wouldn’t be a democracy.

The country system is run by democracy where young people as young as 18 were fighting for the civil war, this is one of the reasons why the 26th amendment were passed down.

What have teenagers done to the country that will give congress a reason to pass down a law that allow teenagers below the age of 18 to vote? None. Teenagers do not have anything backing them up allowing them to vote before the age of 18. Though one could argue that the future of the country depends on the teenagers but teenagers are young and inexperience in many field that allow them to effectively make good decision.

Also, teenagers posses barely nothing for them to actually help the nation. Teenagers are a bunch of young, spoil brats that doesn’t even pay for the tax. Why would the congress allow those good-for-nothing-lazy brats to vote and shape the future of this nation? THEY GOT NO REASON TO. Anyone who is reading this and think that I am wrong? SHOW ME EVIDENCE! Give me evidence that teenagers have actually done something that help shape the future of this nation. No, community services hour does not count because THEY ARE REQUIRE since they allow the young teenagers to experience what the world is like. No, school activity which help benefit the society does not count also because it is the school is helding it and it is part of teenagers job as a citizen to do that kind of stuff.

Overall, Teenagers should not be allow to vote. They lack experience, not a good decision makers, and they really don’t contribute much for the nation to actually allow them to vote. They do not pay tax, they don’t necessary even care about the country. Why let people like that shape the future of this nation?

Final Message, Pain, Misery part two (incomplete, due to time)

A metal clattering again each other roar loudly. A voice said, "Stupid kid, trying to kill himself just to escape from reality. Good thing we manage to reach him in time and save him. If we were another few minute late, he would been dead."

Another voice said, "Yes, I completely agree with you. Teenager those day are to wild and doesn't think about their action at all." Beep, the strange metal clattering sound again.

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The noisy metal work work me up abruptly. "Where am i?' I thought to myself as I swiftly check my surrounding. 'A hospital room? Weird, and my head hurts' In this moment, a tall lady wearing a purple dress and a red ring approach me.

"Well well, look who is finally awake after sleeping for an week. Mr. [give him a name, i will edit and give him a name later], I hope you realize that you are an very special customer to us. Please don't go dieing off like that. It will cause us trouble since our contract is not complete yet."

*To be continue*

Teen should not be allow to vote

Voting age has always been a problem. In 1971, congress pass down the 26th amendment which change the voting age from 21 to 18 (Here). Before that, voting age minimum was 21, but why was the 26th amendment proposed to the constitution and