Beautiful & Cruel By Sandra Cisneros

The story is about a daughter that nobody likes just because she is ugly. She always wanted to be pretty so that any man will fell in love with her, get her married and live off better in their own house. She thought about this fact through the movies which she saw that the beautiful girls have the power to laugh the men away.

I feel very sorry about not only this ugly girl but beautiful girls too because ugly girls wanted to be beautiful and get married quickly and beautiful girls do not want to get married earlier. Beautiful girls have to power to decide for themselves. It means they could cruelly reject the men’s requests for them for marriage. Good body appearance is not important to me because I was made from God. God is the one who made all different shapes including ugly and beautiful people. To respect others is the only way to the understanding of people’s struggle.

Trip in a Summer Dress by Annette Sanford

Annette Sanford is a single mother of Matthew but nobody knows this as a secret except her mother. Sanford’s mother told all the friends that her mother was pregnant again. Sanford was young and she studied all night. Mother insisted that she was to act as Matthew’s elder sister. She was going to the Eureka Springs to get married with Richard without him knowing that Matthew was her son. Annette thought and thought that this task was very difficult for her because she could not take care much of her son. She did not want to tell her son that she was her mother; she wanted him to grow and get married without knowing that even when he dies.

About the summer dress, it was too late for her to wear the summer dress because the place she was going to was cold in the month of October. While in the bus, she thought and thought about Matthew so much because she wanted to take her son with her but she couldn’t. I know that this kind of experience happens to many single mothers around the world. This is because of most men who are going to marry single mothers are not accepting the child that is not his own blood. Single mothers usually keep this as a secret for her good future when married off to a good man.