Zora Neale Hurston's Lover: A Personal Narrative

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First off I would like to thank you for taking the time to read my letter, and I also would like to congratulate you on the job you have done thus far as superintendent. The reason for this letter is my passion is to reduce and ultimately stop completely bullying in schools. To do this it will take a number of steps. Some of the steps necessary are already being implemented in Norfolk Public schools such as; education, teacher training, and parents involvement. For this I commend you I was excited to see all you have done. My passion grows as I hear more and more stories like this one that was on Fox News- A Virginia teenager who said he was being bullied by a classmate hanged himself this week after his mother complained to the sheriff's…show more content…
The other character is Sergio and he is younger and he is attracted to the men Lupe brings home. He also likes the way she lives her life the way she wants in spite of what others think. There is a key moment when a man shows up to confront Lupe’s most recent lover. Turns out her current lover was married to the man’s sister. This is a major reversal in the movie. That leads directly to a huge crisis action when the strange man knifes Lupe’s lover to death. Sergio observes, invents, and supposes all sorts of things about Lupe and the behavior of his neighbors only strengthens his feelings about what he thinks he knows. But the neighbors are the key: when Sergio realizes that others are observing, inventing, and supposing things about him, the comeuppance promised in the title is overshadowed by something larger than he imagines. This is the collection of short stories you should use “The Faith Healer of Olive Avenue” by Manuel Muñoz. In it is the story “The Comeuppance of Lupe Rivera.” Harvard magazine wrote an article on this book titled “A Chicano writer mines the “humanizing effect of
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