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  1. Nov 2022
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    Framing the Novel: Readings (R&A5)
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    1. enrique.a.castillo 22 Nov 2022
      And I thought of how a doctor's assistant once told me that the only books and films she likes are those that are cheerful and uplifting, because there's enough doom and gloom in the world without looking for more.

      I understand their perspective and I feel like it’s fair to think that filling your personal time with things that can help to bring your mood up and make you feel better. I personally feel like having a nice balance can be helpful as well. I also personally love horror movies and could easily watch them as frequently as comedy movies or positive movies so I feel like it’s just the enjoyment of watching movies that make me cheerful or improve my mood

    2. enrique.a.castillo 22 Nov 2022
      I don't mean shock as in bad news or brutal murder or horrific catastrophe or embarrassing scandal

      i took this explanation as art can ignite us. it can show something different to us. it sparks new ideas, visions, or perspectives. it can instill us with feelings that are so different that what we might’ve expected. art can be so raw that the way we absorb it may not be what people would normally think they would experience from art

    3. enrique.a.castillo 22 Nov 2022
      But how, I wonder, can we not feel the beauty of any of these scenes?

      we can find beauty everywhere, and it is different for everyone. beauty is not just limited to the obvious things but even scenes, moments, or settings can provide a beauty

    4. enrique.a.castillo 22 Nov 2022
      Did the cave dwellers think, Hey, that's really beautiful when someone drew the first bison on the wall?

      This really made me think for some reason. It’s just a very curious thing to imagine to reasoning behind why the people back were painting on the walls. It’s easy to imagine it as story telling, but thinking about it from the perspective of them drawing things just for the pure art aspect is very interesting to me

    5. enrique.a.castillo 22 Nov 2022
      That is all it has to do

      I have always found this to be such an amazing thing with art. It had only one true purpose to be itself, to exist, with no other worries. I’ve always been a bit jealous of it all

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    Exploring Identities in the Chican@ Memoir: A Selection
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    1. enrique.a.castillo 07 Nov 2022
      They worked very hard for very little money, my father would tell me. And what money they earned they sent back to Mexico to support their families, my mother would add.

      it’s just one of the many common things about mexican families that have just moved to the US or are the first generation to have lived in America. to work so hard for such little pay just because they want to be able to send anything they can to their families. such an admirable thing yet sad at the same time.

    2. enrique.a.castillo 07 Nov 2022
      To my misfortune, the local elementary school I was enrolled in when I arrived in California didn't have a bilingual program or English as a Second Language (ESL) classes. Although I lived in a mostly Latino neighborhood in Los Angeles, my school lacked the necessary resources for immigrant children like me.

      I find situations like these very interesting, especially considering that, how the author mentioned, that they were in a mostly latino neighborhood

    3. enrique.a.castillo 07 Nov 2022
      And, for the first time, the child in me who had witnessed and endured unspeakable terrors cried out not just in impotent despair, but with the power of language.

      there is something so deeply healing about taking care of one’s inner child, and something as simple as letting our thoughts spill out onto a page

    4. enrique.a.castillo 07 Nov 2022
      The book reflected back to us our struggle in a way that made us proud.

      This idea is something that I have learned since I was young and I feel lucky to have had instilled in me. There is nothing wrong with struggling, it’s necessary and will always be a part of life but we can be proud of ourselves for how we overcome it

    5. enrique.a.castillo 07 Nov 2022
      I had to leave home so I could find myself, find my own intrinsic nature buried under the personality that had been imposed on me.

      This is a thought process I have put a lot of thought into previously. To be able to truly find oneself and look within is something that takes time and especially time on your own to really unveil and uncover who we really are. And at the beginning of our adulthood much of our personalities can be comprised mostly of what we are around at home and school. Those things that we have around us make a big impact on how we act or approach things until we are able to change and grow on our own

    6. enrique.a.castillo 07 Nov 2022
      I have a vivid memory of an old photograph: I am six years old. I stand between my father and mother, head cocked to the right, the toes of my flat feet gripping the ground. I hold my mother’s hand.

      Such a well written description, there is sometimes something so peaceful about looking back at old family pictures and remembering that period of time and also being able to see how far you’ve come since then

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    ENGL 2351: Poems of Resistance
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    1. enrique.a.castillo 31 Oct 2022
      in a Tex-Mex restaurant. His co-workers, unable to utter his name, renamed him Jalapeńo.

      Such a simple disrespect that I know all too well, its one thing to have a name mispronounced, but to have it blatantly changed to something that holds such negative connotations by the user and to be belittled in such a nonchalant way is such a deep disrespect

    2. enrique.a.castillo 31 Oct 2022
      My wife had left around 10 p.m.to take a friend of mine home.She didn’t come back.I wanted to kill somebody.

      I found it interesting that at this point in the story he just wanted to kill "somebody" he felt so hurt and betrayed that it didn't matter who

    3. enrique.a.castillo 31 Oct 2022
      Every morning my brother makesthe cool beach new for them.With a wooden board he smoothsaway all footprints.

      The brother is trying to make the beach look fresh and clean every day for the tourists

    4. enrique.a.castillo 31 Oct 2022
      I am the welder.I am taking the powerinto my own hands.

      I always appreciate stories that come full circle and the author reiterates their main point once again, I feel there is such power in a statement like that

    5. enrique.a.castillo 31 Oct 2022
      i’ll laugh at convicts scurryingfrom cell block to the canteenwith books of scripted moneyto purchase cokes and cookiesand candy bars as well;i’ll laugh at contradictions and yet within i’ll hurtremembering xmas packagesand letters full of pain;recalling those sad momentswhen night became the coverletand darkness filtered songs,when all alone i’d dierealizing just how sordida prison life can be . . .

      There is something funny about imagining grown men running around for such simple pleasures yet there being a possibility that some form of crime, whether violent or not has put them in this situation

    6. enrique.a.castillo 31 Oct 2022
      La mańana         fresca        duerme todavía

      This translates to - the fresh morning asleep still. There is something so pleasant about this line, just picturing a calm, brisk morning before the world comes alive

    7. enrique.a.castillo 31 Oct 2022
      eating snowcones–raspas–& tamales        the games–bingo cakewalk spin-the-wheel        making eyes at girls from cleaner neighborhoods         the unobtainables        who responded with giggles and excitement.

      Again with the descriptive genius that I feel can give people such strong memories of childhood even if you don't have an exact same experience as the one described!

    8. enrique.a.castillo 31 Oct 2022
         (the kind you’ll never find in a café)

      I appreciate the profound descriptive words used in this paragraph, and especially this line. You are able to picture so much with these words and something about the description of the bean tacos and the style of them says so much for me

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