High School Experience

As I began my high school experience, the phrase that I heard the most was, “You should be more like your sister.” My sister was valedictorian in high school and fit this stereotype perfectly. Her grades were always stellar; she was a champion in the classroom. She is the kind of the person who could…

In “The Money” the Dominican writer and winner of many awards such as the Pulitzer Prize and MacArthur, Junot Diaz, describes and narrates a life event that happened to him when he lived with his family in a fortuneless neighborhood in New Jersey. In the first paragraph Diaz communicates to his readers his family fiscal…