When the student had gotten home from school, he immediately sat down on the couch to watch TV. He didn’t have any homework, so he felt that it was okay for him to watch his favorite show, “The Office”. When his father got home, he was surprised that the TV was on. He had told his son that it was not okay to watch TV on weekdays without asking him. The father went to the living room and said “Why are you watching TV?” The father was upset by the son, and grounded him for not listening to his rules. The son was confused because he had no homework. When he tried telling his father, he didn’t want to hear it. In any family, a disconnection with the parent and child like this example could lead to bigger problems in the future. The novels Confetti Girl by Diana López and novel Tortilla Sun by Jennifer Cervantes both have scenes where the parents and child are not understanding what is going through the others head. Since there is a strong tension between …show more content…
Her father cooked the dinner, even though he wasn’t that good at it. The daughter had offered to get the recipe, but he just brushed the offer off. This may be because he doesn’t know how to react to his daughter’s act of kindness. When they finally sat down for dinner, it was easily noticeable that it was very awkward for both of them. Unlike most parents that would ask how their child’s day was, her dad went straight to the question “ ‘Any new vocabulary words?’ ” (14). This shows that the father is not interacting with his daughter like other parents would. The daughter doesn’t really want to answer this question because she feels that her father doesn’t care about her but only cares about his vocab words and books. This makes the relationship between the father and daughter distant, because the daughter doesn’t understand her father’s attempts to connect with her in ways he is comfortable