My Beloved

I really need to express how much i enjoy how sonia talks about her life and she is so descriptive, you can literally close your eyes and just imagine everything going on word by word. Ken moy the student coach for the forensic club was someone sonia really did look up to. I believe he is someone that has really given her the determination to be better. Sonia believes he is brilliant, and i love the sense of humor when he tells her to stop using her hands when she speaks and she said thats like telling a bird not to fly. She has something in common with him too, as his father is a drug addict,alcoholic with a violent temper and sonia knows whats it like to have a troubled father.  This debate in forensic's is where sonia truly has found her calling and how much she wants to be a lawyer. The ability to persuade someones mind and she proves how good she is when she talks about the cold blooded murder of kitty genovese.

My Beloved

The act of kindness from Dr. Fisher is touching, leaving Sonia’s mother five thousand dollars in his will when he died. Dr. Fisher made it possible for them to help with their move, he was a great support system for the family.

My beloved world

Hi everyone good evening, in page 86 it says that Sonia felt down like in a sad face because she couldn't have the constructive bond by herself. Also Julie is dead and Celina has to be responsible of being a mother to Julie's child to take care of them.

Interesting observation

Pages 86 and 87 was particularly interesting to me. What I can't come to understand is how no one bothered to help her father with his alcohol abuse? When he died the two most important persons in his life (wife and mom) fell apart instantly. Weren't they aware of the consequences it would have had on them. Eventually, Celina overcame the passing of her husband and gained confidence and strength. While unfortantely, Abuelita never did she only got worse, i was surprise she moved to the projects after the remark she past when Celina moved the family there. Her own mother died and she didn't care to go. Why wasn't she overwhelmed with the grief for her mother? I thought they had a solid relationship. This is when she needed all those parties to soak away the pain eventhough her eyesight was going. The personality Abuelita was portrayed with throughout the beginning of the story just drastically changed exactly after Juli's death. I didn't expect that from her. I believe in away she let Sonia down because she could no longer have that constructive bond with her. It only got worse Abuelita when her husband began to fade away. She should have been there for Gallego more during this time. Instead Celina had to step up and help. Celina out of all persons. While Sonia and her brother kept it together and began getting good grades with the help of there mom. Sadly the passing of Juli allowed Celina to step up to the responsibilities of being a mother.

A Latina Judge's Voice

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/15/us/politics/15judge.text.html

by Sonia Sotomayor

My Beloved World

Some questions that I have about My Beloved World:

•  Ch. 7 is Sonia's mother's story. It's essentially a flashback to before Sonia was born. Why is this necessary for her memoir? 
• What does the English language represent to Sotomayor? Why did Sonia and Junior's teachers send home notes that their parents were supposed to speak English at home? What did English represent to Sonia's parents? 
• Why is Dr. Paulsen's gender (96) important to Sotomayor?
• Why do you think Sotomayor juxtaposes homework and her mother and friends' leering at Tom Jones at the beginning of Ch. 10? (Btw, here's Tom Jones performing the song she's referring to:)

 

Literacy Narrative and My Beloved World

Look again at pp. 117-123. How might this section of the memoir be viewed as a literacy narrative? How do the incidents with the fruit seller and the grown women playing phone pranks connect to Lord of the Flies?