Friday, January 13, 2012

Choice

 Life is all about choices, either they are good choices or bad choices but once we make our choice we better hope it was our best one because the wrong choice can be our last. In my life I have made many bad choices. Luckily I've gotten the chance to learn from many of them and I hope I get to make better choices throughout my life.
 In the poem "The Road Not Taken" the traveler saw two roads, He wanted to travel both but looked down one road and decided to go the other way. The roads had yellow woods, if he wanted to he could come back and try the next road but that's not how life works, all he could do is hope he took the right road that will take him where he's going faster.
  In the story "LA LLORONA - A HISPANIC LEGEND''   Maria a very beautiful woman who was conceited and cocky, always felt no man in her village was good enough for her, till one day a man who she always imagine as her dream guy came in her village and they fell madly in love and even got engaged and married. Unfortunately after a while the husband got tired of the beautiful Maria and went back to his old ways and would leave town for moths and only come back to visit his kids. Maria got so jealous that her husband only paid attention to the kids that one day she through her kids into the river. When she realized what she had done she tried to run along the river side but it was to late. The next day  a traveler came to the village a warned people that a beautiful woman laid dead along the bank of the river, the beautiful lady was maria she killed herself because she felt bad for what she did to her kids, the myth of this story is that till this day "LA LLORONA" which means the weeping woman cries along the bank of the river asking "where are my children''.
 In the story "DEAD END" Maria is a very educated school girl who wishes she could be like some girls from her school because they were the "cool kids'' always arriving to school late, getting suspended, dressed very nice and always went out on the weekends to drink, smoke dope and chill with boys in their rides. As she thought bout these things she remembered how her mother always stressed education because growing up she didn't have a chance, it was a guy thing. As Maria mother laid on her death bed maria promised to continue with her education and the thought of her daughter becoming someone important in life maria mom sadly died with a smile on her face. Maria had a crush on a boy named Frankie in school he was very popular and nobody messed with him, all the pretty girls in the school thought Frankie was to popular to be into Maria but what no one knew was that Frankie did want Maria because she was different from all the other girls she was smart and always answering all the questions the teacher's asked. One day Frankie asked Maria if she wanted to cruise in his car, Maria said yeah when he parked his car after the ride and finished smoking his cigarette he went in for the kiss, Maria kissed back but when she felt Frankie hands all over  her body she brushed him off. Frankie then took out a joint of marijuana and tried to make Maria take some pulls but she made the choice not to.
 Setting in any story or book it's the place where everything is going on. Settings is important because it paints a imagine in the person head of where certain events is happening at, one setting in the story was when Frankie and Maria were in the car on top of the bridge where La Llorona always comes out at night.
 The main character's in the story is Maria and Frankie, Frankie almost became a negative influence on Maria because he was trying to get her to smoke and allow him to touch her and have sex with her.
Maria made the right choices and didn't smoke or let him touch her, although she wish she did she thought bout her mother the whole time and kept remembering the promised she made.
 Promises is always important in life it is hard to have people trust if your always going around breaking promises, promises has everything to do with making choices because a promise would motivate you in life, for example Maria's promise to her mom about finishing school and letting nothing come before it.