- Why is the trip to Puerto Rico important to Rosie?
- What roles do Tia and/or her father play in her life?
- Why is Rosie insulted when her stepmother serves her hamburgers and French fries?
- The theme for this year's Common Read is "perseverance." How is this book about perseverance so far?
Welcome to the blog for Prof. John Talbird's English 101 class. The purpose of this site is two-fold: 1) to continue the conversations we start in class (or to start conversations before we get to class) and 2) to practice our writing/reading on a weekly basis in an informal forum.
Sunday, February 19, 2017
This week's blog entries
This week, since we're meeting in the Library, we won't be able to blog or discuss Handbook in class. However, I still want you to keep up w/ the reading and make entries on the blog. Some questions to consider as you read:
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Tia and her father played a role as her "parents or guardians" in Rosie's life. They gave her care and love which Rosie didn't receive from her own mother.
ReplyDeletePerseverance can relate to this book, how Rosie still have to deal
ReplyDeletewith her mom and her abuse. Even though it is hard for Rosie to meet her mother, but she still have to visit her mother. Whenever her mother abuses her, she have to make up lies to her aunt and this cycle repeats.
The trip to Puerto Rico was important to Rosie because she was going to see her father and his family. After meeting her sister, she was thinking that she probably will never see her father and his family again because she blew it, when she didn't behave.
ReplyDeleteRosie was insulted when her stepmother served her hamburger and fries because it was american food and remind her the home. She is american but her family was Hispanic. Therefore, she thought she Hispanic and her culture as well. However, she though that everyone in the home and outside the home were trying to make her forget about her culture.
Yes, Ericka, it does seem like some people are trying to make Rosie forget her culture. Why is that?
DeleteThe trip to puerto rico is important to Rosie because it gives her a sense of where she came from. She was able to see how her family lived out there.
ReplyDeleteHer tia and father play important roles in Rosies life as her tia is her mother figure, her protector. Her father at this point in the story has made it clear that he is trying to have a connection with his daughter and finally be a father to her.
Rosie is insulted by her aunt serving her hamburgers and fries because she feels as if she is american, and wouldnt eat what her family eats.
Perserverance is the perfect theme for this book. Rosie went through alot of trauma as a child. Despite growing up poor, growing up in and out of a home, not having a good relationship with her parents she turned out to be very successful in life.
1) The trip was so important to Rosie since she was finally getting an actual experience also she was getting a chance to see her Dad again
ReplyDelete2) I think Tia plays the role of her “Mother”. Tia treats Rosie as her own and gives her a sense of security and love a child needs to feel when growing up.
Ismael plays the role of a father by taking her out on dates and started to create a bond a father and daughter should share.
3) Rosie felt as though it was because she was seen as a child who was from a “Home” run by American Nuns and Priests.
4) Perseverance fits the theme of this book, despite all Rosie’s struggles, setbacks and all the things she endured she worked hard and achieved many things in life including writing her own book.
The trip to Puerto Rico for Rosie was important for her becuase it gave her a chance to find and seek/know her origins from where she and all her family members came from especially since it gave her a chance to go out and see her father once more.
ReplyDeleteRosie's Tia and father played a major role in her life, they were the closets family members that had some much love towards her and would do anything for her. Her Tia was a mother figure for her since birth and always cared for her and well being since her actual mother really never cared that much for her and was always abusive, even more towards Rosie and her father altough he came in her life a couple years later he still managed to be a father figure in her life, taking her out to places, going out to eat, meeting his family in Puerto Rico,shwoing that he actually cared for her made him an important figure for Rosie.
Rosie got offended when her step mother gave her a hamburger and french fries because it reminded her of when she was back in the home where she was forcely taught to only speak english, be only amercian, and as well as act like one in order for her to block off her puertorican spanish side when as a young girl.
This book has a perservance theme becuase with all the struggles and difficulty Rosie faced since she was 3 years old has made her over look through all her abuse,confusion,depression,anxiety, etc. Giving her some what of a back bone of support and faith in order to keep on going and getting out of this long lasting situation through her education and the love she got from her family that loved and cared for her.
The trip to Puerto Rico was important to Rosie because she was going to see her father also her other siblings. Also Rosie hadn't seen her father since the time when she was behaving bad.
ReplyDeleteTia plays the role of her mother and gives Rosie love and affection that her own mother doesn't give her. Her father is her family he tries to have a good relationship with Rosie by taking her out to dinner. He also shows Rosie that he cares about her and wants to be a part of her life.
Rosie's behavior may be understandable because her relationship with these people is not very close. Sometimes our actions are not what we expected in the face of a situation and by these we end up hurting the person without the intention of doing it. The situation in which she found herself is perhaps not the most suitable for a girl. It is evident in the book that her life has not been easy since her infancy. She had to go through by Undesirable situations. However,
ReplyDeleteperseverance Is the key word, as it is obvious that her life has not been easy since her childhood. But the most surprising of all this, is the way she faces her day to day. Despite all the obstacles she does not give up and always comes out anywhere because of her charisma, intelligence and talent.
The walk to puerto rico was very important for her since she was going to see her family, also gave her a sense of her roots and where she came from.Her aunt and her father are very important to her because they give her a sincere and true love. Her aunt also has been a second mother to her, and she would do anything for Rosie. Her reaction towards her stepmother was only because she felt insulted by the fact of getting hamburger and fries from her step-mother. She felt insulted because being raised at a home full of Americans did not make her forget about her roots and her step-mother assumed so. From my end I think Rosie's behavior was acceptable because assuming someone eats differently just because they were raised in a different country then theirs is very inappropriate. This book is about perseverance because even after all the struggle and bumps Rosie found during her younger years and after she did very good things for herself and always thought she could do better and do much more in her life.
ReplyDelete1. The trip is important to Rosie is because she had chance to meet her family members and she was look forward to seeing her father again.
ReplyDelete2. Tia more like Rosie’s mother and she wanted Rosie to feel love from a family.
3. Because her stepmother wanted her to be like a American which made her felt is not real her. They were trying to let her forget the real her and her culture, the roots.
4. After Rosie went through all of the struggle and her miserable childhood, she stills keep going on and has hope for life. She fought for a better life and tired to be successful.
I think Rosie got insulted when her mother served her Hamburgers and French Fries because through out the book she has been forced to stop speaking in Spanish, as well as given different food than what she used to eat before. She disliked that she was forced to stop from practicing her regular Hispanic culture. she was old enough to know that almost every Hispanic families eat their cultural food which she also did, and loved. When she was served white people food (in her own words), then she started connecting her mother thinking to catholic school as if she thought may be Rosie would like Hamburgers and Fries because that is likely what she would be eating in that catholic school.
ReplyDeleteTia and Ismael plays the part as a Rosie's guardians. However, for her they were like more than just the guardians. They were like mom and dad to her. For Ismael, she loved his company even before she knew he was her father. Since she was born, she has been living with her Tia. She loved living with her. She loved her cooking, watching TV shows with her, as well as loved Tia's children. She felt at peace and loved particularly with Tia because she lacked that care.
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