... transforming their personal life and making the decision to pursue American freedom. However, they both realize the huge sacrifice they have to pay in order to achieve freedom. In both stories, Lysley Tenorio uses diction and transformation of behavior of the two characters, Felix Starro and Isa, to illustrate the harsh ... she reacts, "[she] put her hand on Isa's check, wipes off makeup, and then rubs it between her finger as if it were a strange kind of dust" (200). Isa has made her mother angry by standing, speechlessly, removing the makeup from her face. Instead of feeling guilty and...

• Word Count: 1247
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography

... ago in the land of Skyloo a mother was giving birth to a baby girl. She named her "Maiden." Maiden was a beautiful young baby soft brown hair and dark brown eyes. The mother and father were weary of keeping the child, frighten that she might grow to have more beauty than of the Goddess Lydian. Everyone in the ... cloth over her face and forbidden her from taking it off. Maiden did not know of the Goddess of Lydian nor did she know the reasons for her parents" strange ways. So she did what she was told, until she met Dorian. Dorian was Lydian's evil twin brother; he was a very sly young ...

• Word Count: 622
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School