Volar is a book written based on the writer’s memoirs. The writer is the main actor in the story and gives her own personal account. The information that the writer gives in the story concerns herchildhood dreams and experiences. The childhood dreams revolve on the writer being a Supergirl. As a Supergirl, the writer is able to transform herself at night and leave her parents dead asleep in their bed as she goes round flying and touring the neighborhood.
In the second account, the writer gives an account of the aftermath of her dreams. The second account includes what the writerwould experience I the morning after a night session.The morning sessional based on a practical personal experience as the writer did experience life with parents.Both accounts encompass a set of memorable records that the writer experienced personally either as a dream or as an experience.
The story revolves around the writer having dreams of being the Supergirl in the neighborhood. As a Supergirl, she was able to have extraordinary powers to poke into other people’s affairs and business. She recounts how at one time she could find the landlord to their small apartment counting his proceeds. She could then be naughty enough to bring interference to the landlord by blowing the dollars and making the landlord t start counting s money all over again.
The Supergirl I this story has extraordinary powers as portrayed in the narrative. According to the writer, a Supergirl is able to change her form from the normal person to a person who can develop wings and fly in the skies. Moreover, the Supergirl is able to find whatever she wants. Poking into the neighborhood and the rooms of the boys formed some of the mysterious things that the Supergirl was able to do.
In addition, the writer is able to recall the routineactivities that the parents used to undertake in everymorning. It is clear from the writer’s point of view that the parents observed a bureaucratic set of activities that they were so reluctant to avoid. The writer recalls how she was able to bring about unease among the parents whenever she woke up early and interfered with the daily routines.So the parents [preferred to wake her up at specific scheduled time of the morning to join them in the routinized activities.
The family was so bureaucratic in their daily encounter and activities that it was possible to know and predict the behavior. It was possible for the writer to be able to predict what the parents would do next after a give activity was done. The writer knew the next pattern of discussion and the possible reposes that the parents were to give in the discussions.
Finally, it is important to note that the writer paints a picture of the family she was raised up in to be a poor family. The writer is able to say that they lived in a small apartment that was managed by a landlord. It was apparent that the parents feared the landlord and would do anything to avoid him. Moreover, the family could not afford a decent holiday out as the father cited out financial problems associated with such activities. The writer however considers herself mature enough to only feel that her childhood wishes were worth at the time, though childish.
Works cited
Kitchen, J., & Jones, P. (1996). In Short: A Collection of Brief Non Fictions. New York: W.W. Norton and Co.
