Wednesday, September 28, 2016

The Four Amigos

James W.B. Guinther
Mike Lohre
English 1109.01
September 27, 2016


The Four Amigos
Sandra Cisneros, Four Skinny Trees in her book The House on Mango Street, reminded me of my friends and I. We have always been close like the four frees Cisneros talks about. It seems as my friends and I grow up like the trees we still have our roots firmly in the ground right next to each other. The trees are described as having their branches on one another and if one falls they will all. This correlating to that if one of us falls we will all be right there, all together. I believe Cisneros work is at its best when she writes, “Their strength is secret” (Cisneros. 74). Invoicing thought to the obvious, that they are together and their strength is in time and in numbers.
Adolescents, with their malleable minds are extremely influential upon. When I was about 13 My cousin Matthew Fix a recent graduate from Ohio Norther majoring in mechanical engineering landed non-major related job. This job was at Marathon as a Petroleum engineer, the year he graduated making about 50,000 dollars more than the 80,000 dollar mechanical engineer salary. This inspired me to set course to become an engineer seeing how successful he is, now making a salary of over 130,000 dollars and he's not even 30. All throughout high school he would tell me how important my grades in math and science are, and that truly understanding the fundamentals will take me far in life. I chose to allow successful good hearted people influence me knowing that their advice would take me where I want to go.

4 comments:

  1. I like how you related the story to your own life

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  2. Good job comparing your friendship to that of how trees have roots

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  3. Good job giving us an explanation on the theme of the story and relating this chapter to your life. Your cousin also seems like a very good role model to you.

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  4. I think you did a nice job relating your own relationship with your friends with this story.

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