Quinceanera Analysis

We use language to communicate and express our feelings daily. Through four stories of Baca, Rodriguez, Isabel, and the film Quinceanera have shown us that language impacts a significant meaning in our life. Each story has its own way to prove how gender language can affect in life. Trying to adapt to a new language is very hard but immigrants in four stories not only use second language to communicate but also to show their feelings. Seeing that there are some common between the story of Baca and Isabel, and the story of Rodriguez and the film Quinceanera. I my opinion, I want to know what is the common problem between the story of Baca and Isabel? How can the actor of Rodriguez and the film Quinceanrea deal with their father? In the story A Place to Stand, author Jimmy Santiago Baca is a Hispanic and he also speaks Spanish. His father is an alcoholic, he always get drunk and threaten to beat his mom up (Baca 2). In Baca’s father life, he never wants to share about his history to Baca. Maybe because he never had a beautiful history to share with his son, or he is too selfish to let others know about him. But in my opinion, sharing is needed in family, knowing that sharing is a responsibility for each member. When Baca’s father sees his son in jail, he clearly hurt because his son was there. He does not want his son to see him like that. He feels embarrassed. Even if he is bad, but let his son seeing him in that situation is out of his control, he cannot do anything. Baca’s father wants him to at least has some respect for him, not seeing him in jail cause of drunk driving. Boyhood of Baca does not have anything beautiful but always seeing his father get drunk and threaten his mom. His father does not teach him how to become a decent man and protect his family. For that reason, when Baca grew up and had kids, he always wants to share his history to his sons. He does not want his son …show more content…
He punched Carlos in the face and wanted him to go. In my opinion, no matter who Carlos is or what did he do, Carlos is still his son. He can stay mad at Carlos but push Carlos away just because he is gay is not a right thing. Author put Carlos in a situation that he is a good man but just because he is gay so his family left him because that is so embarrassed his family. Same thing with Magdalena’s family, when her father finds out that she is pregnant, he left her too. Instead of being by their children’s side, both Carlos and Magdalena’s father decide to push them away. Let them face with the problems by themselves. I guess, both father are just so dictatorial to understand for their children. They straight up and don’t care about their children’s life. With the A Memoir of a Bilingual Childhood, we have the Rodriguez family. His father never speaks English with him but their first language Spanish. His English is poorly (Aria 26) because he could not practice at home with his father. Maybe his father is not confident about his English so he does not want to practice with Rodriguez. But help him out by practice English at home might help a