“T'ma Negro.” “You ain’t no nigger,” José said. “T ain’t?”” “No. You’re a Puerto Rican.” “I am, huh?” I looked at José and said, “’Course, you gotta say that: ’Cause if ’'m a Negro, then you and James is one too.
It is sad and incredible at the sametime the fact that the skin color has such as an strong meaning in society
My brothers and sisters were there during the day. At night, only four or five of us would stay. | can say | was there for his last breath. But it was a beautiful passing because he had made peace with everything and everyone. Each one of us had gone in, maybe a week before, and he had said goodbye to each one of us. | can't describe it. It was just an incredible gift to be there. That didn't happen with my mom, | wasn't
By reading this passage I can feel how sad she felt even thought she said it was "a beautiful passing", we, Latinos in particular, we don't want to see our family die even if they are 100 years old.
When you said your relationship with your mother changed, do you think it was because you started thinking of yourself as more grown up, or she started seeing you as more grown up? Or what in particular shifted?
She must be very mature at that time because usually when it happens it is because your family trust you and your behavior.
All of the rest of us were in the other bedroom with my grandmother. My brother usually slept in the living room on the sofa. We used to joke that was his room.
This sentence remind me when me and my family came from the Dominican Republic that we have to sleep two in a bed and my brother slept in a living room in a sofa until we managed to move to a bigger place.
She earned money that way, but it was very tight, and we didn't have a lot of money. The funny thing ts, and you hear people say this all the time, but it's true, | never knew we were poor. | just thought that's how everybody was.
This paragraph is very deep and special for me in particular and I am sure it is for more people too. The way that Norma describe how her family earned the money to support them and the way they handled the economic situation so their children did not feel they were poor. That's exactly the same way my that my family did and also that's how I do with my children because I do not let my economic situation get to them.
What The Border Taught Norma Elia Cantu About Being Free
The title of of the reading is telling us that it will be about a person who grew up or knows about the border and will share the story.
Dont let _sentimen letters, anil life-colored photographs lure you from your island, from your nation, from yourself. Grandma, please, please!
It is sad to think that a lot of elderly are here in the United States just because their family are here and because nobody can take care of them in their country. A lot of these people die here missing their homeland.
No matter how many photographs they sent you of Times Square at night, or the Coney Island Boardwalk, grandma, please tell them “NO.” A forceful, definite “NO.”
This passage is connected with a lot of people because on picture everything is beautiful, but the reality of living here is different.
the tall avocado tree right by your kitchen door,
Looks like grandma lives in the countryside. it reminds me when i go back to my country that we have a lot of avocados and mango.
I know there is need and poverty around you And dis- crimination and economic and cultural oppression there. Some- thing called imperialism sees to it that these things are n
Most of our Latin countries has theses political, economics and cultural oppressions as the author mention. however, people have joy in theses country more than any other places.
rue, you have not seen them yet. You would like to leave your tropical sun and mountains and the little rivulet bathing the base of the fence in your back- yard and the tall avocado tree right by your kitchen door, just to see and embrace those darling grandchildren.
The author is contrasting here of what grandma will se if she come, and what she would miss from homeland. is is a way to persuade her not to come.
Grandma, Please Don’t Come!
In the title of the story, the author made a suggestion to his grandma not to come. There is not much information because it is just the beginning of the story. the author is telling us what the story is about and we as the readers will find out in the story why is he making the sugestion.