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Monday, February 13, 2017
Rosie's Stories
This first part of the memoir shows Perez's many experiences w/ adults. She learns different things from different adults in her life. Can you point out two different stories in the book, one in which Rosie was taught something positive or treated w/ love and respect and one in which she was abused either physically or emotionally? Can you make some general comments about what these stories are telling us about Rosie and how they helped her become the person she is?
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She had to live opposite situations in her childhood, as if they were different worlds or as she were two in one. So far it is evident that her happy world is belong with her aunt and cousins. Her aunt's house is a place out of violence and mistreatment. However, she had to live unexpected situations in her new house with the nuns.There were the first time that somebody scream her and hit her. Also, She had to be coupled to a regime not suitable for a girl with a few years. Lived without her aunt was complicated, but she always found the optimist point to be happy. Also , her mother was different a cruel with her when they shared time , she scream her and slam her.
ReplyDeleteThe two different stories in the book which either taught her positivity in her life or made her deal with negativity would be when she lived her Tia, her mother and in the Catholic School. She felt love, care and respect while living with her Tia on the contrary she felt miserable while living with her mom and dealt with a very troubled life because of her. In Catholic School she was forced to follow routine which she was not used to and she hated it as well as deal with physical and mental torture just like living with her mom. I think it made her take every opportunity she got very seriously because as she already dealt with much problems in her life so it made her strong in a sense along with being able to differentiate between good and bad because she dealt with both positivity and negativity in her life. From her past experience she could relate between good and bad for herself.
ReplyDeleteRosie explains a mutable amount of stories she went through as time flew by at the "Home" and also outside of it. As she got older she moved on to a different group of girls as they aged and meet with a new sister in charge named Sister Renata who was more stricter and more punishing for any little problem which gave Rosie beatings on a daily basis that lasted for weeks on end. Eventually growing tired of all those UN-rightful beatings she fought back with anger and full of rage, even using profanity against the nun which provoked even more physical trauma between each other, Rosie never seen that enraged side of her that just came out from a girl that was always polite, respectful, caring, and loving for all people. During the times in summer vacation where she had went to her Tia's home she got more in touch with her unclefather, from the start Rosie being uncomfortable around him as well as confusion to know that it was her father but as time went by being with him, she developed a good normal feeling towards their relationship and gained an opening for them both, she didn't know why she let him in like that but she let it happen at the same time. She was still somewhat able to balance out both behaviors from two different life perspectives she had gone through, one being mentally and physically unstable for her to control all those beatings and anger built up inside her but yet still managing to hang in there and the other giving and opening up to people who care for her in some way even though she tried blocking them away.
ReplyDeletei believe that suffering make you stronger, but it can also make you weaker. I think you have to suffer to success in life because when you suffer, you become stronger and wiser.Rosie suffered a lot emotionally the day that her mother left her with the nuns, from that moment begins the suffering for her. For me something that touch my heart was when she wanted so bad to be loved by her mother, but in the moment that she saw her mother treated her brothers different than she treated her in that moment she knew what it was like to feel neglected. She also realized how her mother ways of raising were affecting and hurting her life. The positive outcome for me was the support she got from her aunt. It was very moving the part when she got permission to go visit her aunt for Christmas; how happy she was and how much love she felt. I think everything Rosie went through in her childhood made her a stronger person. Not everyone who goes through depression and pain can accomplish a happy life after but she chose to use all those bad experiences and turned them into lessons. You can tell she was very passionate about all her experiences. Reading her book really makes you connect and fell the situations she is writing about. I think Rosie is a very brave woman, very valuable and someone who inspires women to do and become a better person even after experiencing such bad things theres always a light at the end of the tunnel and that might be your chance to be great.
ReplyDeleteGood response, Grace. I think you're right that suffering can both make you strong and weak.
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