1. What circumstances make hope impossible or possible? The circumstance of Dona Guadalupe and Don Victor family living in La Lluvia de Oro makes hope impossible by the bandits who roam around their village. Everyday they have to worry about the bandits taking their gold, which they did. In addition, it makes it even harder for Dona Guadalupe's family to leave La Lluvia de Oro, because they wanted to use the gold to help them get out so they could go to the United States. "Then one day, Lupe and Sophia were sitting together, listening to the breeze-just being quiet-when, for no apparent reason, they both started to cry. They’d worked so hard and suffered so much. And, not only had the bandits killed Don Tiburcio, they’d taken their gold, raped Paloma and two other little Indian girls, killing all of them. Oh, la vida was just too difficult to bear at times.” (pg198)
The circumstance that happened when Dona Guadalupe and Dona Manza spotted a rock with gold turned the hope that was impossible to possible. This discovery boosted their moral and confidence, which help motivate them in breaking down the gold again to nuggets. "Look, see that rock in the middle of the plaza? Now that the sun has come out, it shines" says Dona Guadalupe. "My children and I were commenting on that same stone the other day," "Now that the roots have turned up the cobblestones, every time it rains, there seems to be a little color here and there, all over the plaza" says Dona Manza. “So what are we waiting for?” “Maybe it’s gold!” says Dona Guadalupe. “It’s gold!” screamed Lupe. (pg 200-201) You can just feel the excitement of everyone in the town grow with their hopes as well.
To say that one circumstance brought the peoples hopes down or up is out the question because every time they went through something horrific something amazing happens and lifts them up again.
2. What is the value of family? Victoriano shows what the value of family is by showing the reader how much he cares for his little sister Lupe and how he would die to make sure anything never happened to her. For example, Victoriano says "We'll take care of you," "Truly, I'd die a thousand deaths before I'd let anything happen to you, Lupe." (pg 188) Another example of what is value of family is when Dona Guadalupe explains to Lupe why she was okay with her sisters running away with the guys they loved. Dona Guadalupe explained to her that the times were tougher now and they just didn't have the money to throw a bunch of weddings. So Dona Guadalupe let her older daughters run away so that they could get married because when a man steals a families daughter to run away they are considered partners/married. Here's a part from the book that shows this “I told her to, mi hijita." "Lupita, it was going to come to this anyway. And I want my daughters protected before the bandits come again." (pg 188)So to tell you what the value of family is, well it's the most important thing in your life if you love your family. The value for your family can never go away and if someone ever tried to take it away, you would stand up. It just comes to this the value of family is un-explainable in words but through your actions in life is what will show you the value of family not someone describing it to you. They can't write it on a piece of paper as a definition and tell you this is what value of family is. No, it’s on you, the individual who defines what value of family which has many definitions is.
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Jerry, I would like to comment more on your second response. I thought that your response to "value of family" was very good. You used good examples to express what you wanted to say. From reading this I can see that family is something that is very important to you. I especially liked the ending to your second response. Your response made me look at the value of family in a different way, it gave me another point of view.
ReplyDeleteYour first response was also good. I liked the way that you took time to explain your examples before you wrote them. You did a good job!