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TheNovel "A cup of water under my Bed,” has a series of sociallife experience that reflects in the contemporary world. The plot ofthe story portrays sequences of activities from childhood toadulthood of a person. These events in life are in connection withthe parental guidance to achieve a prosperous future for the younglady who is the author of the story. Furthermore, we find a series ofevent that captivates the audience to analyze the situation thatcomes along life experience. The flow of the book from childhoodpossesses a range of rhetoric situations in life of the author at theadulthood. As the author grows up, a series of experience in life cananswer some of her situation and the challenges she faces in theschool experience. The author also captures the insight literaturethat reflects in the course of the story through the childhood eventand adulthood activities. The story also draws an analogy of severalthemes and the central theme being the family and other minorantagonists in the story. Moreover, the story life of Daisy Hernandezis brought in contrast to June Jordan and comparison in theliterature cases in writing. Hernandez develops the theme of feminismthat portrays the events and challenges of the female gender over themale.
Thebook Of Daisy Hernandez, A Cup of Water under My Bed, has anemotional scene of life events in Colombia and further in New York.The book portrays age experience of Daisy Hernandez to the point ofher independence in life through the guide of the family. Moreover,this book is organized in a historical theme that illustrates thepower of poetic language that depicts facts in the livelihood of theauthor. In this thematic expression, the author subjects herself tothe growth and development experience basing the family as thecentral character in the plot of the story. Nonetheless, the bookalso illustrates the life experience of the author at a differentpoint in life, and the possible inspiration in the diverseenvironment set up. The author, therefore, gives a comparison inschool experience with an insight knowledge acquired and theself-goals of life.
Thecentral theme of the story being the family elaborates on the basisand the life experience of the author alongside the parental guidanceof her growth. At a tender age of the author, the family introducesher to school to eliminate stupidity and to teach her further aboutthe Western culture and the English language. The author initiallyknew few words in the Spanish language that was the mother language.The family saw a bright future in Hernandez through the formaleducation despite their social and economic status of life. Hernandezmother was a cautious and ambitious person in life with a dream ofmaking Daisy Hernandez focus in life towards achieving a brighterfuture. The story elaborates on the daily idioms and proverbs of theSpanish culture such as the God gives meat to those who do not haveteeth. This proverb was to encourage Daisy on the school work and tobelieve in herself on the academic welfares.
Moreover,the author’s mother further projects caution to her that she shouldnot confuse tap water with swimming pool water with meaning to alwaysbe careful in life. The dilemma in life on friends was the main ideawhereby Daisy takes a glance at Lilianna, her younger sister. Theintroduction to Holy Family School was a different experience of theauthor whereby the English language was the first subject ofexperience to learn. Despite the difficult situation in school tolearn the language, her mother becomes the daily advisor always tohave an optimistic nature of life.
Furthermore,the family plays another significant role through threatening DaisyHernandez towards being a writer after school which was her firstcareer thought. As she tells her father about the career dream, heseems unsatisfied on the career choice since the first thing in mindwas that she was to expose her family to the public domain. Herfather always came home drunk but was cautious of his family welfare.In this aspect, her mother also warns Daisy about men who seducesladies and to avoid them as she is in school. This lesson comes fromthe author’s mother experience of migration and the modernlifestyle of the people. The source of cultural values thatdiminishes daily in the contemporary world makes her mother aware ofthe situation that may come in the future. However, the rhetoricalsituation comes in where the author introduces herself to the samewarnings of her mother, and she gets involved into the bisexualrelationship.
Nonetheless,the author’s mother chooses the school as a factory to make herchild to a real woman in the future rather than the reckoning womenin the society. The usual stories crowded with monsters was a lessonthat would instill fear to Daisy as a form of caution in life and theset goals that she could always achieve in life. Another scene in thestory is the shift of location to a better house in New York, whichis to improve positively on the author’s status to a betterenvironment. The previous home whereby illiterate people surroundedthe situation was to change significantly the mind set up of theauthor in the school life. The living standard in Latin America wasso poor, and the environment could negatively affect the study lifeof the author at the tender age than in the new environment. As theauthor settles in the new home, she is accompanied by her aunties inthe town. Tia Church, a teacher by profession, was the next personwho brought in the social teaching as part of the family. The kitchenstories significantly raise positive life and social status in thesociety considering the restriction that her mother always expresses.
Theplot of the story uses the social and environmental exposure tothreatening the children through the importance of school. In thelocal hometown, unemployment was a threatening factor whereby theSpanish could translate their unemployment through learning TheEnglish language. It places a theme of coincidence with the careerchoice of Daisy Hernandez which required her to learn and to gaininsight knowledge in the English language which set in nationalcommunication in the country as a national language. Therefore, to bea writer, the possible option was to keep her education valid with adeeper knowledge of the English language which could be essential intransforming her ideology to the citizens of the country. As theauthor grows, she reflects on the daily report on the New York Timesand literary analyzed the error the story posted to possessplagiarized content. It guided her in the goal of heartfeltexplorative character in her community and to create new queer life.Nonetheless, the author’s mother was a role model to her childrenwhereby she lived morally and dressed morally as to the rationalsociety expectation of an instinct woman. She was less of fashiontrends and the use of lipstick which ambitiously was to transformthis trait to her children in future.
Consideringthe experience of June Jordan and Daisy Hernandez, both possess boldexpression on life and not shy away from the stereotyping words andconventional language. Jude Jordan came from a minor ethnic AfricanAmerican group while Daisy Hernandez is a Spanish immigrant into theUnited States. Nevertheless, their topic of interest differs despitethe social aspect of life. Jordan’s writing wrote the real lifecharacter of social injustice, oppression and diverse denial in thesociety. However, Daisy faces family blood rejection when shebetrayed her mother on the moral life through bisexual engagement.Moreover, the different part, [Bottom Bun] for instance, is thecondemning nature of bisexual by Jordan which Daisy Hernandez onceinvolves her to bisexual behavior. For example, her contemporaries’sexuality of Audre Lorde and Adrienne Rich attributes toself-expression in eroding the world’s culture and the abuse ofpower in recognition of bisexuality. In the same aspect, DaisyHernandez addresses the issue of HIV and AIDs in the book as a lessonin life and the havoc of the disease in the society.
Therhetoric situation the author place is depicts the experience themother has in life which has been a lesson to her. It pushed her towrite the experience of life and the daily life of her mother throughthe several stories of life and theme of feminism. Moreover, hermother could not answer these questions since they were more oftheoretical explanation but to allow time and age of the author tolearn to be herself. The choice of church was also to give the moralteaching in life and always to live according to the religiousmorals. The attitude of the writer at this point presents anoptimistic character in life that places interest in severalsituation of life more so the Catholic Church teachings. Themotivating factor that the author addresses in the book to theaudience is to flashback all aspects of life and to literary bring inthe change to the society in other new ways of liberty.
Moreover,the author gets insight skill in the English language which buildsadequate study knowledge in school but later got into the Spanishlanguage which her mother did not concentrate in the childhood. Theauthor finds it essential to learn the language to translate severalphrases her mother uses in the daily teaching at a tender age. Theprotagonist, therefore, uses the two languages in achieving thewriting career in life which portrays an aggressive role in life. Ithas significantly possessed a rhetoric situation in life by hermother not emphasizing the importance of the mother language.
Despitethe existing situation that has led the author into the freedom ofchoice in life, it brings about the family as the immediate option incorrecting circumstances in life. For instance, [Patty] her motherbreaks out into the prayer of Hail Mary when Daisy Hernandez brokethe morals of her mother by dating another girl. Moreover, theauthor`s mother develops depression feeling that led to a persistentheadache. The protagonist thereby reflects on the warning that hermother has been saying to her like a daily music rhythm which fallsapart in adulthood. Moreover, the cultural belief that the Author’smother instill to her came to the past after the introduction of highschool with different friends such as Julio, Dominican, and JudithKrantz among other friends.
Inconclusion, the rhetoric situation is the broader aspect of thefamily that reflects later in the life of the author as a writer inthe New York Times. For instance, Barrack Obama depicts the variousfamilies in life such as the church family, blood bond family, andthe political family. It, therefore, indicates the differentcircumstances that the writer is exposed i.e. school life to the workenvironment and the presence of the morals all along the experiencethrough acquiring new family. Her life experience has a series ofcoincidence from the childhood to adulthood whereby the moralteachings reflects over as she becomes an independent woman. As shefully takes the career as a writer, she identifies the lifeexperience as the possible study and the theme of feminism in thecommunity and the challenges behind women.
WorkCited
Hernández,Daisy. A Cup of Water under My Bed: A Memoir. N.p.: n.p., n.d. Print.
Kinloch,Valerie. June Jordan: Her Life and Letters. Westport, CT: Praeger,2006. Print.