It is simply impossible to escape reality; however, that does not mean individuals can’t dream. Dreaming is one of the greatest adventures life can give a person. In the short story, “Volar” by Judith Ortiz Cofer, a family of Puerto Rican origins, who are now immigrants in America all fantasize about how their life would have been if their circumstances were different. The young girl in the book is finding a getaway for her self through the median of comic books and it’s all from her longing to fit in. Starting a new life in America for a foreigner is challenging, and no matter how much an immigrant struggles to attain “The American Dream” only a limited number of people will come across the chances.
The life of most immigrants resembles …show more content…
Oddly, in the story the whole family has their own particular dream. The young girl, which is the author in the story, isn’t happy with the way she looks, complaining that she has curly hair, skinny arms and skinny legs. Her beautiful adolescent mind would have dreams of herself transforming into what she knows to be a strong beautiful American super hero, Super Girl. She would have straight blonde hair, big busts, the ability to fly and use her x-ray vision to spy on her neighbors, teachers or just people who interested her, one of them being her landlord, “once I saw our landlord, whom I knew my parents feared… He sat on the floor counting his dollar bills. I played a trick on him… I blew a puff of my super breath into his fire place, scattering his stacks of money so that he had to start counting all over again” (paragraph 1); however once her dream was over she would wake up in her tiny bedroom, little, powerless, with her curly black hair and her flat chest on her princess bed. On the other hand, her mother …show more content…
The father is working hard to improve their financial status; his dream is for his family to be financially stable. The stories main theme is the longing to escape reality, reality being the antagonist. The reason why any individual would want to leave their current place is because they are depressed and unhappy. No matter the age, who wouldn’t want to escape this reality? Luckily for the mother, her issue will get solved if the father’s issue gets solved. As for the young girl, she is at the start of her teenage life and usually girls around her age face insecurities. Adolescent girls think about millions of ways to look like something they are not which is ordinary due to the amount of pressure they feel, either from their peers, family, society, or a major factor; the media. As Jim Morrison said: “Whoever controls the media, controls the
The life of most immigrants resembles …show more content…
Oddly, in the story the whole family has their own particular dream. The young girl, which is the author in the story, isn’t happy with the way she looks, complaining that she has curly hair, skinny arms and skinny legs. Her beautiful adolescent mind would have dreams of herself transforming into what she knows to be a strong beautiful American super hero, Super Girl. She would have straight blonde hair, big busts, the ability to fly and use her x-ray vision to spy on her neighbors, teachers or just people who interested her, one of them being her landlord, “once I saw our landlord, whom I knew my parents feared… He sat on the floor counting his dollar bills. I played a trick on him… I blew a puff of my super breath into his fire place, scattering his stacks of money so that he had to start counting all over again” (paragraph 1); however once her dream was over she would wake up in her tiny bedroom, little, powerless, with her curly black hair and her flat chest on her princess bed. On the other hand, her mother …show more content…
The father is working hard to improve their financial status; his dream is for his family to be financially stable. The stories main theme is the longing to escape reality, reality being the antagonist. The reason why any individual would want to leave their current place is because they are depressed and unhappy. No matter the age, who wouldn’t want to escape this reality? Luckily for the mother, her issue will get solved if the father’s issue gets solved. As for the young girl, she is at the start of her teenage life and usually girls around her age face insecurities. Adolescent girls think about millions of ways to look like something they are not which is ordinary due to the amount of pressure they feel, either from their peers, family, society, or a major factor; the media. As Jim Morrison said: “Whoever controls the media, controls the