"All that glitters is not gold"

As I Read, the both stories "Look Forward" by Soto and "what We Really Miss About the 1950s" by Coontz are really interesting. Both writers have expressed their childhood times in different ways.

Soto wrote about his childhood experience through the lens of a child to influence the readers to analyze interpretive skills. His narration about his childhood as a minority child is a true picture of fantasies and dreams of minority children. His way of narration catches the reader's attention easily as the story is based on reality of our American society. People are more likely interested in reality than wrong and fake things. The writer tells the fact about what people really imagine and try to copy others by sharing his childhood wish of having same life as he saw on the T.V and media. In my opinion, media plays a important role in development of a person's mind and society by feeding mind.Media prevents us from accepting reality and to live in a dream world.

Whereas Coontz's story " What We Really Miss About the 1950s" is based on facts and research. This story reveals her childhood time but that is completely different than Soto's. This story falsifies the belief about the 1950s that says 1950s was a perfect and ideal time for every American to imagine and remember. Coontz tried to show that 1950s was not the perfect time which we imagine and had many drawbacks in the society i.e. higher divorce rate. She revealed the fact through fair research that 1950 was more difficult time. This story works as a eye opener for the readers and convinces to not follow and believe anything blindly without research and study by themselves.