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  1. Oct 2022
    1. The smell of hot dogs carries through the park, down every aisle, and inside every concourse.

      this is a very basic American food. Usually hotdogs and burgers are a very American thing and of course you smell it a lot during games.

    2. The crowd sings and hums “The Star-Spangled Banner,” and I feel a surprising amount of national pride through the voices.

      the narrator feels some kind of way towards the national anthem. seeing all the people sing with pride changes the way that he views at things. he is impressed by how everyone is feeling towards the song.

    3. From the national anthem to the international players on the field, all the sights and sounds of a baseball game come together like a slice of Americana pie.

      this is the moment that the person realizes that they are on America. the different feeling of being somewhere else is hitting to them.

    1. Being only a daughter for my fathermeant my destiny would lead me to becomesomeone’s wife.

      this is a typical Mexican household where the parents are expecting their daughter to have a husband and be the housewife to take care of the kids and cook food for the husband

    2. In a sense, everything I have ever writtenhas been for him, to win his approval eventhough I know my father can’t read Englishwords, even though my father’s only readingincludes the brown-ink Esto sports magazinesfrom Mexico City and the bloody

      this shows that everything that we try to do is for our family, she wanted to show her dad what she was capable of doing and what she wanted to be. she just wanted to make him proud.

    3. I’d tug myfather’s sleeve and whisper: “Not seven sons.Six! and one daughter.”

      being a girl in a Mexican house hold surrounded by boys you might feel a bit excluded from the family because you're just supposed to do stay home, clean, and cook. she feels like she isnt being valued enough by her dad.

    4. “Where can we get more copies of this forthe relatives?”Of all the wonderful things thathappened to me last year, that was the mostwonderful

      her seeing that her dad was reading what she wrote made him happy and interested was all she needed. Her father had realized the kind of daughter that he had

    5. I am theonly daughter in a family of six sons. Thatexplains everything.”

      what she means by this is she feels like she has more responsibilities just because she's the woman of the family.