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.