Mike Rose present in his story “From Lives on the Boundary,” two ladies Marita and Lucia who does not have anything in common, but are particularly related. Those two ladies are going through difficult situations in life, which one of them is working hard to get a better life. Lucia is the one who tries not to give up on her dreams, by making things possible for her and staying positive. Marita instead makes things worse for her by not trying hard and putting barriers in front of her.
The base of Marita’s issues comes from her background. She was raised in a place where “expression of Opinions” (1) Counts. With her brain set in that particular way, is it difficult for her to change while growing up especially in school. Marita in class does not have the ability to translate the work giving by her teacher because her mind is set in a way that, “[she] was not a scientist, and [] was not consider[ing] herself to be a particularly creative person like an artist or an actress.” (1) There is the first barrier she created herself. Because she …show more content…
She is a single mom who knows what she want for her life. Entering the UCLA, she “declared a psychology major,” (3) things that Marita haven’t. Although Lucia knows what’s best for her life she as well has little difficulties. Those difficulties comes as well from her background, but are more related to her belief system. Even though Lucia has those problems, she is willing to learn to have a better result later on. Her instructor thinks positively about her. As it’s mention, “my previous encounter with Lucia had convinced me that she was an able student. She was conscientious about her studies-recopied noted, visited professors and she enjoyed writing.” (3) Lucia instructor met half way because first she knew that she had difficulties with her class work and showed to teacher that she does not know, which is being humble, and also proved them that she is willing to