Jackelyn
Jackelyn
Reflection paper.
3. What personal and academic values have you gained from the story? Discuss
each.
A Hilly Ride
Life is tricky. It has its own way of surprising people with grandeurs and
paltry, and humans are made to counteract these highs and lows. Jeanette
Patindol’s Tight Times best explains how this story-line happens. It shows the
hilly ride of life, and a rider’s way to come through. It may appear comical and
age. The number of youths as represented by the young mice will never ran out
whole story, the details in life were being observed in an affectionate and keen
outside viewpoint, the roles of offspring are often mislabeled with vacancy, but
the real fact is, the courage and spirit of parents in dealing with unresolved
matters come from their kids, but it doesn’t appear simple, as it may seem. As
mothers do their jobs infighting up a home, their kids serve as the fossil fuels
running into their mother’s veins. Without them, strength and courage would
not be generated at all. As fathers enforce, shape, and build, their kids are their
In our family, we have encountered a lot of struggles and hard times, and it
appear soften. The resolution is not one-way, we get to walk in different ways
before coming up with a certain solution, but we are never tired of reminding
come in the way, still, At the end of the day, we still got each other’s back, and
we never leave anyone behind. Despite the couple of lows, we make sure to lift
our head and look on the brighter side of things, focusing on the bigger picture
because we believe, that if we start jotting down the things, we are grateful for,
it will release all the toxicities in life, and we start to live in harmony.
In this time of crisis, the family of mice mirrored the condition of every
Filipino family struggling. The pandemic has swept the resources including
deep crisis. Their father has no stable job, so as their mother, they were pictured
drawbacks, and scarcity. This particular story-line exhibits the exact situation of
families troubling in the midst of pandemic. As we start seeing the brighter side
dust them off of, but they move on, laugh, and go on with life. No matter how
bad the situation is, they would always put a smile on their faces, and think it’s
just a bad day, not a bad life. Aside from resiliency, Filipinos are family-
oriented, the members in the family would go hand in hand toresolve matters,
and their strings of affection would make the resolution lighter and easier. As
the saying goes, it is just a bad day and not a bad life, things may seem rocky
and teetering, but better days would also fall in line. Family problems are not
only narrowed to financial instability, some common family problems are;
organization of chores, and imbalance work and home life. These problems
would come across the journey, but there are plenty ways to handle these issues.
Every family has issues, and there is no ‘perfect happy ending ‘to any story, but
good ending sexist. It is of great advantage to keep each one’s self ready,
to experience it in our family, and we are perfectly reflected in the story ‘Tight
Times’. We may have struggled and fell apart, but the story continues, and in
each turning page, life will still always be full of surprises. Lastly, we got each
other, and that’s the best thing our family could offer.
The book appears functional in multiple ways, may it be for the academe
or personal. The story is not a typical family story, where the characters are
played by real people. It is very comical in a sense that it can capture and
entertain young minds, with its fable-like content. The resolution did not appear
as complex as in real life, but it clearly instate how it goes and how life should
be. The book is indeed a good illustration of visual images’ intertextuality. The
style in writing is very instructive, it has a neatly-tied resolution in the end, with
reasons to resonate with. It is beyond the story of struggling to make ends meet,
day at that. But I’m glad I still have eggs to eat.”, More than anything, this is a
story that speaks hope, optimism, transformation, and the resilience of one’s
spirit to triumph against life’s vicissitudes. While yes, times are tough, it is
evolved human nature. No matter how crushy our life may seem to be at times,
life will always be hard for our kind. Gratitude, optimism, and resilience can
make the ride a lot better, especially if we get to surrender ourselves to the
provider.