Día de los Muertos

Reflection Paper

The love one that I decided to do for Día de los Muertos was my aunt. Her name was Jacquleine Brocco I called her aunt Jackie so did all her other nieces and nephews. She meant so much to me. She was much fun to be with we would always laugh and dance. She was so easy to talk to. My aunt jackie was a great mother, sister, cousin, wife and aunt. She was so lovable. Losing her took a toll on everyone's lives. Especially her children and sister. My aunt was like my Best friend I could tell anything. She gave the best advice when it came to school and she never sugar coated anything for us. Also,even if came to something we was going through she would give us some type of advice to help us or to ease our minds. I decided to create my sugar skull in remembrance of her because I miss her so much. I've could've did my cousin instead we were close but I felt closer to my aunt. Even though it’s been a couple years it still hurts and I miss her so much. So making a sugar skull wasn't a morning thing it help me to remember who she was and to show what type of person she was. For those who didn't know her. Also, remembering someone who has passed doesn't have to be a mourning thing. So making this sugar skull in remberce of her helped me to see that.

My sugar skull reflected the things she liked and what she wanted to do. The orange and brown feathers represent Thanksgiving. My aunt Jackie loved Thanksgiving she would always have my mom cook. We would have all my cousin over. She loved her family and this time of year. When she past it just wasn't the same. During Thanksgiving we would have our family drama but she would always try to find a way to ignore or make it funny. Sometimes she would play music and blast it through the house and start dancing. Sometimes do this loud obnoxious laugh and me and my cousins would always join in laughing and seeing who had the weirdest laugh or who could laugh louder. The reason I gave my skull purple hair is because she had a lot of hair. When she would wet is it would get super curly, when it would start to dry it’ll still be curly but get really big and puff. We would all laugh and call her Diana Ross, She would always give us this look like really guys. Another reason why I chose purple hair instead of Black is because she always talked about dying her hair purple. My older cousin would always debate with her the color she should get. We all thought Purple would be too much. On my sugar skull I place one silver sequin on the left cheek because my aunt only had one dimple on her left cheek. My aunt's children, sister and brother all had dimples but they had both on both cheeks. She the only one in the bunch that had only one dimple. I always thought that made her pretty unique. The reason I painted my skull yellow was because she was light skin.

Día de los Muertos really Opened up my mind. After doing various ways of researching what Día de los Muertos is and doing a Día de los Muertos of my own by creating a mask and a skull really helped. It helped me to see that when your loved one dies you can have a way remembering who they are without it having to be sad. So doing this sugar skull and masked helped me to see that. When doing it I thought it was going to be very emotional but surprisingly it wasn’t. It felt pretty good to talk about her and not it being emotional. Now I know a different cultural way of remembering my aunt. In my family we always block of our street on the day she passed and eat dance in remembrance of her. All the friends and family come around then towards the end we go and light candles and let balloons go. Día de los Muertos is a very good cultural alternative way to remember your loved ones and knowing how other cultures deal with the death of their loved ones without it being emotional. Día de los Muertos really opened up my mind to remember my aunt Jackie. In addition, to Día de los Muertos helping me understand this I would highly recommend others to try this to remember loved ones who have passed.

Eulogy

Intro

Me llamo Ashton. La persona yo elegir está por Día de los Muertos, está mí tía Jackie.

Origen

Mí tía Jackie es de Filadelfia. Ella somos afroamericano y puertorriqueña.

Identificación

Mi tía es una quedarse en casa madre. Ella querido su hijos. Sus llamo es Jamod, Jalyke y Jasper.

Características

Ella son joven y bello. Mí tía es baja. Ella es también loca, creativa, inteligente and aplicada. Ella es muy amorosa y cálida. Ella siempre querido útil gente si podía. Mí tía es a fuerte mentalmente.

Localización

Ella es veintisiete cuando ella morir. Yo ella tan mucho. Cuando yo escuchó ese ella morir yo están devastado. Su muerte made hecho saber eso es vida también corta. Yo desear ella está aúa vivo. Ella está como mí mejor amigo.

Condiciones

Este proyecto está mucho diversión. Eso no hacer mí triste eso mí feliz. Yo sentido buena de acordarse la buena tiempo ese nosotros pasar.