What have I learned from this course?
How do I relate to the short story La Guera by Cherrie Moraga?
What is the connection between my Spotify playlist and the short story Kimberle?
The short story Kimberle is about a friend who allows her suicidal friend Kimberle to stay at her house until she gets back on her feet. though Kimberle is extremely complicated person she deeply affects the narrator. The narrator is convinced Kimberle stole her books as they go missing throughout the story. However, Kimberly further complicates the relationship the tow haven by bringing woman for them to have a threesome with. The first song ” I Kissed a Girl” by Katy Perry deeply relates to the short story KImberle. The narrator mentions how she has recently broke up with her boyfriend due to her own problems. Later on in the book Kimberle allows for the narrator to be with a girl to which the narrator enjoys. The narrator states “I don’t know how or why but my mouth opened to the stranger’s breast, tasting her and the vague tobacco of Kimberle’s spit” ( Kimberle, page 20). This relates to the song I kissed a girl since Katy Perry states ” I kissed a girl and I liked it”. In both scenarios a girl is confused about her sexuality. The song What About us also relates to Kimberle. Upon the end of the story the narrator admits she has feelings towards Kimberle to which Kimberle turns her down. In the story it states “‘“Kimberle, don’t you ever think about what we’re doing—about us?’ Us, there is no us”‘ ( Kimberle, page 25-26). This relates to Whatabout us due to the fact P!NK sings about a relationship that deserved more to which she says ” what about all the broken happily ever afters”. Lastly, another song that relates to Kimberle is the song put your head on my shoulder. The narrator is Kimberle’s rock since she’s suppose to make sure Kimberle doesn’t commit suicide. the narrator states “She was asking me to keep her from killing herself” ( Kimberle, page 14). This relates to this song since the song is about the love and trust a man and a woman obtain for each other. Kimberle can simply put her head on the narrator’s shoulder due to the bond and trust they have for one another.
What is the connection between this newspaper article and the short story ” Pandora Box”?
The short story ” Pandora Box” is about a man who one days wakes up a female, transforming from Juan to Juanita. Upon this story Juanita learns what is like to be a woman. One of the main ideas in this story is how woman are objectify. Juanita admits when she was a man she was attracted to Pandora solely on her body that she forgot there was more to pandora than her looks, she had a mind. Even pandora admits that its hard for her to relate to someone when no ones sees her as a person. In the story she states ““’Men treat me as if I have no life of my own,’she said at one point of the long conversation, ‘but I do.”’This creates to this article because the article is about men viewing women has sex objects. This article admits then men view women as sex objects and its basically an instinct. Both readings show that men never see women as what they really are :people, but rather see women as just a body or an object.
How does Dulce Pinzón photo and Graciela Iturbide photography relate?
How does José Olivarez: “Mexican Heaven” relate to an episode of “Big Mouth”?
Mexican Heaven
The Day My Little Brother Gets Accepted Into Grad School
I Tried to Be a Good Mexican Son
I Walk into Every Room & Yell Where the Mexicans At
Mexican American Obituary
White Folks Is Crazy
Mexican Heaven
I ask Jesus How I Got So White
Poem in Which I become Wolverine
When the Bill Collector Calls
& I Do Not Have the Heart to Answer
Mexican American Disambiguation
In Season 4 Episode 2 of ” Big Mouth”, Missy ( a tee who s half-white and half African-American), upon visiting her family in Atlanta finds ut that she has been white washed. When her cousins try to help her get in contact with her black side, she is oblivious to all the things that make her black , such as slang, hair, and ” Pumpkin vs. Sweet potato pie” . In the scene when she gets into an argument with her family she says ” You guys haven’t taught me anything about being Black”. this relates to José Olivarez: “Mexican Heaven”. In Olivarez poem he talks about how he is being white-wash and slowly forgetting about his Mexican background. He states in the poem ” Mexican American Disambiguation”. In this line he is trying to say he doesn’t know what makes him Mexican America anymore. Throughout the poem he tries so hard to stay in contact with his Mexican side to which he asks Jesus why has he been white-washed. Both this scene and the poem relate due to the fact the characters are trying to reattach themselves to their ethnicity. Missy gets her hair done with braids in order to get in contact with her ” Black” side and Olivarez tries to assert himself with any Mexica he get in contact with. All in all both characters become white-wash and try to reverse the affects.
An Alternate Ending of ” Porcupine Love”:
I made up my mind. Upon sitting on the straw-mat I realized I couldn’t wait to see Antenita. I can’t believe it took me 14 years to realize. All those years she was there and I refused to acknowledge it, not anymore. I will welcome her love, her body, her laughter, her mind.But That small voice in my head is trying to convince me love is simply not for me. I allow the voice to have one last word to try to convince me otherwise.Because what if that voice is right and my toxic love doesn’t have room for her. I lay on my bed and dream; I dream about being with Antenita again in Bogotá, her lips pressing against my neck. I jolt up from my sleep, my mind is decided and the voice has disintegrated. Suddenly it is as if I only have a few days left to live, I must go to New Zealand. Before that voice can creep back into my mind I scream “Fuck the job, fuck porcupine love, I want and need Antenita”. I rush to my laptop and book a ticket to New Zealand. I don’t care if its $1,000, I just care about her. I pack in a breeze, and I lay awake counting the hours, the minutes, the seconds until I see her again. The excitement I bear just thinking about us, all the memories and all the future memories I will bear with her, the hours pass quickly.
Its 8 in the morning and I’m already halfway to the airport. My boss calls me asking me why I’m not at work yet and I simply said one word: Love. New Zealand, 2 continents, 3 oceans, 8,643 miles, and 31 airplane
hours away, a trip I’m willing to take to just breathe her air. I dreamt of you today, I’m so glad our connection Is still strong. I suddenly forgot how to breathe, just seeing her text affects my whole state. As the plane leaves I take those 31 hour happily just to dream of a life I will be having with her again. I finally get to New Zealand and the feelings im feeling is unbearable: Nervousness, anxiety, excitement, nausea, hot flashes,everything in one. It’s time, and with that I send a simple email to her: Pick me up at the airport. No response. The nervousness and anxiety overpower all my feelings. What if she doesn’t want to see me after all and it was all just a way to get back at me for all I put her through. I take it all back when I see her running towards me. I am stuck to the ground and the world stops as she is now in front of me. All I can say is ” Antenna I need to stop traveling Because all those trips were just detours. you are my final destination.” before I know it her lips are against mine and my world is now complete. New Zealand, 0 continents, 0 oceans, 0 miles, and 0 airplane hours away. All at once everything is different, now that I see her, now that I am with her, now that I’m breathing her air.” I love you” is all she says and the rest is history.
