The Quinceañera Text: Tone and Mood

When analyzing a text, identifying both the mood and the tone can be really helpful.
Remember: We refer to “mood” as how the reader feels about the story; and “tone” to the author’s attitude towards the story.

As I was reading this story, I got to understand he feeling that Ana was going through she felt anxious about a party, and like me she

THE QUINCEAÑERA TEXT

“The Quinceañera Text” by Erin Fanning What can you tell about Ana from this story? How does she feel about her 15th birthday celebration? How do her feelings change the course of the story?

We can simply visualize Ana as a regular teenager girl, who struggles with the fact that she is changing into a different person, she is becoming a women, and being 15 years old, delivers a huge experience in her life. She is just so common, she tries to fit in and wants to have a huge party and a cellphone as a present, but due to financial problems that her family was going through she could not have any of those things, except for just a little party and she was okay with it, because she finally understood the situation. Ana got something unexpected from her grandmother, it wasn't a cellphone and at the beginning it wasn't as good as good as a cellphone for her therefore she felt nostalgic but then Ana realized the true meaning of everything and she learned that nothing means more that something which stands for your family and where you come from and that is exactly what the cookbook she got as a gift from her grandmother was, so she felt grateful for it:I ran my fingers across the leather cover tracing the word, "Recetas". It may not have been a cell phone, but it spoke to me all the same.

MY JOURNEY

It was early in the morning, I was trying to ignore that buzzing sound that had been bothering me all night, the fact that it didn't stop made me feel irritated. All of a suden I heard a loud noise, people outside of my house were screaming, and the only thing that a could see was a man with the swastika symbol on his jacket holding a gun against a boy's head, that boy was my best friend, the boy I met at the synagogue 5 years ago, a peaceful young man with the heart of an angel, after that, all I can remember is blood everywhere and me hiding behind a chaise longue. I covered my mouth so I wouldn't scream, but then I realized that the abominable creature that had been buzzing all night, was just between my thumb and index finger, the distasteful insect gave me the need to regurgitate but I just ran away to see my best friend lying dead on the streets of Paris, I sat next to him shedding tears.
The streets were crowed, but crowed of dead people, people lying on the ground, a lot of people that I used to know, jews just like me. A man wearing a weird outfit came up to me trying to convince me of coming with him, he said he could save my life, but I just couldn't believe any stranger with his whole face covered, but he just told me to believe in him and I did, I didn't have too many options.
He gave me the same thing he was wearing and he told me it was a hijab which I had seen many times but still never bothered to know how was it called, "with this you will be safe until we get to the mosque" said the guy, I had never felt more grateful for a complete stranger. When we got there he took me to the souterrain and I waited there with a lot of people, some I knew some I didn't know.
After just hours of waiting, some muslims wearing hijabs took us to a big blue boat. In that moment I knew I was safe, the only thing I regret is not asking that man's name, the man who saved so many lives, the man who saved my life.

The jacket of the man that killed my best friend 

Connections between The Grand Mosque of Paris and the Key Concepts

Basically "The Grand Mosque of Paris" is about the Nazis and how they occupied Paris, we can clearly realize that no Jew was safe from arrest, deportation and discrimination. Few Muslims were willing to risk their own lives to help, and that leads us to an easy connection between the passage and the key concepts that we have seen, which are "Culture and creativity" and "Connections".

The fact that Nazis, Muslims and Jews are different groups of people with different, experiences, beliefs, values, attitudes, meanings, hierarchies, religion, notions of time, roles, spatial relations, concepts of the universe, and material objects and possessions in the course of generations through individual and group striving, is the key that shows us how the passage is concerned mostly in culture and not only that, but how Muslims and Jews were able to get along and find freedom together allows us to see "connections". Two different cultures working together to achieve their goal using creativity to make outstanding plans delivers a huge impact in our lives as much as other great stories about how people raise their voice to find their freedom.