Being a personal narrative, this text has an interesting structure. I would suggest it might be either chronological or spatial essay. It is chronological, because the author encounters things that happen with her and her dad and they depend on particular timeline. At the same time miss Balcita might use the spatial structure as her order depends on what she encounters first, second, third (dreaming, making dreams come true, reality of them, living in reality, how that reality hits you etc.).
The author compares a lot of things and uses the "if" effect.
It is funny how she mentions the accent and how each immigrant can have distinguish sounds pronouncing particular words (i always compare "ranch" and "runch", "Buffalo" and "Byffalo" etc.). The subject of her essay is immigration and which way/ways it is affecting people. That is where her focus is. She evaluates the consequences of the immigration/moving to a different country, adjusting to that new world of unknown, the ability of getting used to live in it either bringing something of your own or blending with something that already exists there.
Miss Balcita uses repetition (10) and dialogues (1, 4, 7, 8, 14). In the dialogues we could really hear her voice and its tone. At the same time the tone of the essay is somehow nostalgic in my opinion.
There are 14 paragraphs in the essay.
Her ideas include what really matters to her. Particular things that have significant meaning. Like the place you live, the clothes you wear and where you shop, accent, sports you begin to like/follow, things that scare or surprise you... Things that you have dreamed of as a part of you "americano dream" and the ones that became a part of your "american reality."
After the class discussion, appeared that our professor introduced us to the new style of writing called creative non-fiction. This creation is one of them. The paragraphs in the text separated by stanzas. Elements that suggest the main idea of the text are in bold and can be read in different ways. The author goes out of her way to compare the truth and the reality. The truth is the process of the naturalization, when the rest is just a dream. This essay shows how the author grows throughout the process of creating this piece which is the most significant part of writing.
After the class discussion, appeared that our professor introduced us to the new style of writing called creative non-fiction. This creation is one of them. The paragraphs in the text separated by stanzas. Elements that suggest the main idea of the text are in bold and can be read in different ways. The author goes out of her way to compare the truth and the reality. The truth is the process of the naturalization, when the rest is just a dream. This essay shows how the author grows throughout the process of creating this piece which is the most significant part of writing.
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