Martin Sanzana

Assigment 2.5
"Straw Into Gold" is titled after the unique situation with which the girl in
"Rumplestiltskin" finds
herself: being tasked with the impossible, turning common straw into precious gold.
Cisneros uses this analogy throughout her essay to discuss how she has achieved her
own seemingly impossible tasks.
Return to your journal and choose one of the ideas you brainstormed from Page 1 of this
lesson, which included an experience and a lesson you learned.
For this Application, use what you learned from watching how Cisneros developed her
analogy from Rumpelstiltskin to create an analogy that will help develop the idea you
chose from your brainstorming.
In less than 200 words, answer these questions for your application in a paragraph:
What experience in your life will your Reflective Essay discuss?
What did you learn from that experience?
What analogy will you use to develop this lesson within your essay?
Note: Remember that an analogy is a comparison, so you will need to tell me both what
the lesson is (achieving the impossible in my own life) and what you are relating it to
(spinning Straw into gold).
Some good ideas include: Fairy tales or fables, Shakespearean quotes or characters,
myths, classic films, etc.
This is a pre-writing activity that will help you plan for a successful Reflective Essay.
Use the guidance in your textbook to go ahead and write the essay you planned. You
should complete the essay, but you should only turn in your 200 -word discussion of
your analogy.
All attached documents must have a proper header that includes your name at the top of
the document. If you submit a document that does not include your name and a header,
it will be rejected and you will have to resubmit the assignment with the proper header.
Answer

In my reflective essay I want to discuss about an experience that I lived when I was younger
and it is when I was bothered at school, in this case I was told different names that bothered
me, that irritated me and made me bitter, for that reason I did not like going to school or
arrived home in a bad mood, but I changed my point of view about those abusive nicknames
when at home they began to bother me in a more friendly way, making me get used to the
nicknames in such a way that instead of getting angry I laughed with them.

With that experience I learned that if you give too much importance to those who don't
deserve it, it will affect you more than whoever is bothering you and that it is better to laugh
than to get bitter about people who are not worth it.
In this case I want to use an analogy of the story " Marita's harassment " because they are
totally similar experiences, for example, in the story Marita was called fat just for being
plumper than others, while I was given nicknames for my last name or for what I like to do, I
also feel that this analogy can help more people to overcome school bullying.