UNIVERSIDAD AUTONOMA DE NUEVO LEON

FACULTAD DE FILOSOFIA Y LETRAS

INTRODUCCION A LOS GENEROS LITERARIOS

STUDENT: JOSE ANGEL OLIVA FERREL

GROUP: i52

ENROLLMENT: 1719344

SEMESTER: 5TH

TEACHER: NALLELY GARZA RODRIGUEZ

MONTERREY NUEVO LEON, NOVEMBER 15TH, 2017

I would like to dedicate this to all the people who have ever felt trapped
within themselves and who for fear of prejudice have not been able to
express their feelings towards the world around them.
 I remember the day I realized who I really was, I discovered it during the sixteen
years, with the help of my mother named Leticia and also with my family, friends and
my boyfriend Emmanuel, thanks to them I can say that I discovered who I really am.
One day, I began to wonder about my sexuality, I felt my body in a very different
way, I felt good physically, but deep down I knew that something did not fit me, I
was interested in totally opposite things, makeup, football, etc.

Telling my mom how I felt really helped me to orient my personality and find me,
it was difficult, I admit, I guess they will be thinking that what I found is that I was
homosexual, period, but no. What I discovered at sixteen was something that not
only made me feel identified as a homosexual person, this was different, I always
thought that God assigned it to me as a gift, really as time passes I realize more who
I really am My life has not been easy, with the divorce of my parents to my four
years, many people came to say that I am like that because I feel the absence of a
father figure, but no. What I really discovered was that, inside me, inside my body,
two people lived, a man and a woman, I had always felt that way since I can
remember, nothing was different, only now if I had understood who really It was.

I remember that day, the face of surprise of my mother, my family raising a million
doubts and asking me about thousands of things. From that day I started to see
things differently, I understood that being homosexual is a simple label of tastes, not
a simple multicolored rainbow, it does not mean that you like men and now, I
understood that I had an immense luck to have to the family that God gave me, to
the friends who crossed my path at that moment, and to whom would be the love of
my life, they say they remember that it is to live again, every time I remember this
hundreds of people pass through from my head the sensations. It can sound so
serious, and it seems so easy to explain my situation, but it is not always like that.
 Living with a man and a woman has its advantages and disadvantages, there are
days when I am totally a man, others in which I could be a woman almost biological,
sometimes I am both, my way of dressing has changed since then, sometimes it is
drastic, days are loose clothes, dark colors, casual, simple clothes, lying down, others
almost wanting to wear a dress, pastel colors, makeup for eyelashes, perfume for
women, among other very feminine things.

Since I discovered my true self, the things around me began to change, days in
which I felt completely like a man used to gather more with friends, go out with them,
play videogames, heavy jokes, more sarcastic and mocking humor, they did not exist
sensitive and gentle feelings, while in days I felt feminine with so much desire to go
out with friends, talking all day, telling us gossip, very sensitive mood, I went to
school with fear and feeling more insecure than usual, a whole princess I would say.

I remember that problem that occurred to me when I met my first and my only
boyfriend, I remember that feeling of fear and nerves that I felt, as expected, having
a boyfriend at sixteen made me perfectly know my inner self, I thank the person who
appeared on my way to become my partner, someone who respected me from the
first moment, to whom I told him my personal situation, my feelings and who
responded with a "it does not matter if you are a man or a woman, I fell in love with
both "I think it's one of those sensations that make you feel complete, who would
say that with that person would last five years and counting, following my boyfriend's
side.

I can say that maybe we are not the happiest person in the world, there is always
ups and downs as in any relationship, but every day that passes I enjoy knowing that
the direction my life has taken is what I expected, I have a family that loves me, my
mother Leticia, who supports me in almost everything, buys me makeup , but she
also likes me to act as a man, a boyfriend who does not care about prejudices and
who lets me be who I want to be, so I can get to dress as a woman, which does not
happen yet but I know that if it happens I would have no problem .
 I know that not all people run the same fate as me but I would like them to take
time for themselves, it is good to know what is really inside you, if you do not love
yourself, as you expect someone else I can love you It is worth mentioning all this
that if I ever thought that this was a game that my head was doing with me, so I took
psychological therapy at my twenties not because I felt bad if I did not know what a
specialist could say according to my feeling, for which to my surprise I was the first
case in the clinic to whom something happened to me as it happened to me, there
are those who are homosexual but define themselves as a woman and are called
transvestites or transsexuals, there are those who change, they are homosexual but
from the beginning they reaffirm themselves as men.

However, no one I met in the clinic felt the same as me, this only made me realize
that you do not really choose your life, you learn to live with your life, to be a man
and a woman within itself it has opened doors to me in many places, it gives me the
ability to relate to many people by having such opposite tastes, so let's say that this
life fits me like a glove, truly my short life does not I would like to change nothing of
what I am, I would not like to define myself, I am who I am, just as one day I can
feel masculine with total freedom, another day I can make up and transform myself
into a woman, into that woman who is enclosed within me and that from time to time
comes to reflect the sensitivity of my being.

TOOL DEFINITION EXAMPLE MEANING

flashback Flashback is a literary device
wherein the author depicts the
occurrence of specific events to
the reader, which have taken
place before the present time.
Back in the day when I had always felt that way
Sarah was a young girl… since I can remember,
nothing was really
different, only now if I
had understood who
really It was.

Hyperbole A hyperbole is a literary device “I am so tired I cannot I remember that day, the
wherein the author uses specific walk another inch” or “I’m face of surprise of my
words and phrases that so sleepy I might fall mother, my family raising
exaggerate and overemphasize asleep standing here”. a million doubts and
the basic crux of the statement in asking me about
order to produce a grander, more thousands of things.
noticeable effect.
 Symbol A symbol is literary device
that contains several layers
of meaning, and is
representative of several
other aspects, concepts or
traits than those that are
visible in the literal
translation alone.
Hyperbole A hyperbole is a literary
device wherein the author
uses specific words and
phrases that exaggerate
and overemphasize the
basic crux of the statement
in order to produce a
grander, more noticeable
effect.
Alliteration Alliteration is a literary
device where words are
used in quick succession
and begin with letters
belonging to the same
sound group.
flashback Flashback is a literary
device wherein the author
depicts the occurrence of
specific events to the
reader, which have taken
place before the present
time.
Metaphor A metaphor refers to a
meaning or identity
ascribed to one subject by
way of another.
Personification It refers to the practice of
attaching human traits and
characteristics with
inanimate objects,
phenomena and animals.
The phrase “a new dawn” From that day I started to see
does not talk only about things differently, I understood
the actual beginning of a that being homosexual is a
new day but also signifies simple label of tastes, not a
a new start, a fresh simple multicolored rainbow.
chance to begin and the
end of a previous tiring
time.
“I am so tired I cannot every time I remember this
walk another inch” or “I’m hundreds of people pass
so sleepy I might fall through from my head the
asleep standing here”. sensations
The Wicked Witch of the It can sound so serious, and it
West went her own way. seems so easy to explain my
situation, but it is not always
like that
Back in the day when I remember that problem that
Sarah was a young girl… occurred to me when I met my
first and my only boyfriend, I
remember that feeling of fear
and nerves that I felt
“Henry was a lion on the so let's say that this life fits me
battlefield” like a glove
The warm and I hope some day the sun will
comforting fire smile for those who are now
locked in a storm with the
hope of some day dawn and
the sun
 I hope one day to become an influential person for someone else, I like
to share this side that few people know about me, I like that they really
know who have lived with me who I am, someone who lives with two people
in one, I like to show you to the world that the labels do not exist for me,
it is only what one carries inside, likewise, I hope someday the sun will smile
for those who are now locked in a storm with the hope of someday dawn
and the sun, but that sadly due to its current situation has not been
possible. All this is only a small part of me, the rest even I do not know yet.