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Have you ever been in a difficult situation in your life no matter if it was a family problem or a problem your job or school we all have been put in this situation or will be. Both Victor Martinez in his book “Parrot in the Oven” and Kesha in her song “Praying” Shows this emotional moment that every human experiences and also shows how difficult it is to get over these things but also how important it is to find peace and forget about it. In “Parrot in the Oven” Manny is not like the other in his family and they don’t like that. Similar to the song “Praying” because it is saying how you have to be able to forgive and find peace with the person or thing and yourself. In both text, we learn that learning to deal with emotions is important to the everyday life of a human.

 

A common theme in both texts is that dealing with emotions will make you a better person in the long run. In ” Parrot in the Oven,” Manny is trying to better than the rest of his family. but because of the choices they made it made him feel like he can’t be anything so he joins a gang. The artist in the song “Praying” states that ” …You brought me through flames and you put me through hell” to show that the relationship had some serious problems and caused her emotions to spew out of her. Also it says “I hope you find your peace” and this is saying that she doesn’t wish bad upon him and means she is a better person now. In both text both characters are negatively affected by their relationships with others.

 

Although they both deal with relationships they are still different.

In “Praying” she is dealing with a boyfriend relationship. But in “Parrot in the Oven” it is talking about his family. You only get one family but you can find a million other boyfriends/girlfriend. Also in my book it is talking about how violence plays an important role in your future and present life. This is how the two writings show strong differences.

 

In both “Parrot in the Oven” and “Praying” Victor Martinez and Kesha articulates the importance of dealing with your sorrow and forgiving others. After studying both of them I found that they are very similar in a lot of other ways I didn’t mention. The reader might conclude that this was an important theme in both the book and the song.

“Parrot in the Oven” Literary Essay

 

This book takes place in a little town called Fresno California. It is Victor Martinez novel called Parrot In the Oven. The main character Manny lives with his poor family with a brother who can’t keep a job and an abusive drunk for a father. Manny goes through a lot of pain in this book. But the main theme of this book is you don’t have to be like the others around you.

 

From the beginning, the description and details in the story show all of the bad people around and in Manny’s life. Some of the bad people influence him gravely others not so much. His mother is one of the good influences on his life she is a hard working woman that tries to provide for her family by herself. But unlike his loving mom his dad is the opposite he is abusive and always talks down upon Manny. For example In the beginning of the story it talks about how Manny’s dad says “People are like money you have so 100 dollar bills, 50 dollar bills, Dollars , and then you have people like you pennies at the bottom of it all”. Manny’s brother is also a major influence on his life but he is also a bad one because he is a drug dealer. In the book it says mom thinks “He sells weed sometimes too”. This might be one of the reasons why later in the story Manny decides to join a gang.

 

By the middle of the story the reader begin to see that Manny is going through a bad part of his life. You can tell this because this is the part in the book where he starts to steal. In the book it talks about how he goes and steals some peppers from the market. Also His teacher says ” He has been getting in a lot more than usual”. Also Manny joins a gang so this makes the situation even worse than it was before. So this is how he changes through the middle of the story.

 

Next it describes how Manny is a good kid that is being corrupted by these kids around him. But others disagree with this they think that he is just another dirty hood rat and that’s all he will ever be. While this is a good point, because he is actually doing the things that make him look like that now, It fails to account for all the pain he has been but through by the others around him. This shows how you truly have to get to know a person before you instantly judge them.

 

Towards the end of the story Manny is still in the gang life in the book it says “him and his friend stole a purse and where running from the cops”. Also it says “he gets jumped because of the choices that he makes”. This is when Manny realizes that he shouldn’t be doing this and he quiets the gang life. I know this because in the book its says “I knew I had stop as I sat there silently watching my sisters”. This is how the book Parrot in the Oven shows me the theme of you don’t have to be like the other people around you.

 

The book that I’m reading takes place in Mexico in a small poor town. It is very hot and dry there. It is very different from where I live when we get all 4 seasons summer, fall, spring, winter. It takes place in present times.

He is face with of lot of bad problems Manny his brother, mother, sister, and his abusive father all live together poorly off of the little money Manny’s sisters makes because his father and his older brother that is currently in a gang cant keep a job. All of the problems he are faced with makes him begin to do bad things in his life. He does a lot worse then what his family and his mother thinks of him now. In the area that many lives in it is a lot of gangs and a lot of violence do you think many will fall deep into the cycle or will he bag out of the gang life? Manny is a very good student but do you think the gang life will influence his grades? His father really doesn’t like him that’s why he called him a parrot in the oven which means he believes anything anyone says brains or no brains.

Late Thursday afternoon on August 26, 2015 the Snider high school football head coach was “viciously screaming at student athletes  like some kind of deranged monster  from a horror movie”, said a football player. “It brought tears to my eyes as I  watched the filthy words spew out of his mouth”, one mother said.
Coach Tippman (Sniders head coach) made them run in till they were throwing up on the side line a parent said “The field reeked of sweat and throw up”.
The coach made them do up downs, jumping jacks, pushups sprints, and long runs “whatever it took to make them be so sore that they can’t get out of bed in the morning” ,said Coach Tippman. After practice the team member were “tired but also happy because they knew they had just did what was necessary for them to win Friday’s game” said starting quarterback.

Now I want you to tell me do you think he deserves a suspension or was he just doing the right thing to help his team when the state championship(He has not been suspended yet).At first it seemed as if he was a monster but later it looks as if he is just a hardworking coach that is dedicated to the game of football.

Two months later snider is state champions because of the hard work and the time the players gave up to this game said a snider coach, here are some stats to go along with it, snider went 13-3 that season that was the best record in the state of Indiana that season, The running back had a little over 1000 rushing yards and also 34 touchdowns. So does this mean that they were the best in the state or just lucky?

With that season that should let you know that the hard work and that little extra push from head coach Tippman was what the incredible Snider team needed Said a Coaches wife. But some parents thought that he worked them a little too hard and that the team was winning off of pure raw talent.

Picture this a ruby blue vibrant ring on your finger that will always be there because of your hard work and Coach Tippmans Fantastic coaching. He shouldn’t be punished said one witness reported but a team mom disagrees with Tippmans coaching ways.

Late Thursday afternoon on August 26, 2017 the Snider high school football head coach was “viciously screaming at student athletes  like some kind of deranged monster  from a horror movie”, said a football player. “It brought tears to my eyes as I  watched the filthy words spew out of his mouth”, one mother said. Coach Tippman (Sniders head coach) made them run in till they were throwing up on the side line what they had ate at lunch a parent said “The field reeked of sweat and throw up”.

The coach made them do up downs, jumping jacks, push ups sprints, and long runs “what ever it took to make them be so sore that they cant get out of bed in the morning” ,said Coach Tippman. After practice the team member were “tired but also happy because they knew they had just did what was necessary for them to win friday’s game” said starting quarterback.

Now I want you to tell me do you think he deserves a suspension or was he just doing the right thing to help his team when the state championship(He has not been suspended yet).

The last book that I read was were the red fern grows. I like this book because it relates a little to me because I wanted a dog when i was younger too. The book I picked from the library is called Son of Neptune i choose it because i had read this book before and it was really good.

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