Doing my best to balance the cold pop in one hand and the wrapped-up dog in the other, I find the nearest condiments stand to load up my hot dog. A dollop of bright green relish and chopped onions, along with two squirts of the ketchup and mustard complete the dog. As I continue the balancing act between the loaded hot dog and pop back to my seat
the author does a great job of immersing us in they're story, they use a lot of figurative language along with descriptive terms
going to a Major League Baseball game is the perfect way to glimpse a slice of Americana.
the closing line realigns with the first paragraph
First, the entrance turnstiles click and clank, and then a hallway of noise bombards me. All the fans voices coalesce in a chorus of sound, rising to a humming clamor.
the author is giving us a lot of descriptive terms to help us imagine the sounds so it feels like we are there as well. this helps us as the reader connect to the story well
As the sun hits my face
theyre using figurative language, specifically personification. theyre using this to describe the heat and strong glare of the sun
I sat on the bed next to my father andwaited. He read it very slowly. As if he werereading each line over and over. He laughed atall the right places and read lines he liked outloud. He pointed and asked questions: “Is thisSo-and-so
she finally feels seen by her father when he reads her paper
we study hard and use this—ourheads, instead of this—our hands
being first gen mexicans our parents always wants us to be more successful than they were.
He meant siete hijos, seven children,but he translated it as “sons.” “I have sevensons.” To anyone who would listen. The SearsRoebuck employee who sold us the washingmachine.
i would feel like i wasnt even part of the family, if my father was lying about me telling people something im not
But the truth is, I wanted him tointerrupt.
i think that her dad is so concentrated on her finding a husband. that she feels like her father doesnt care about her being in school when she clearly wants her to care
, my father shakes his head evennow and says I wasted all that education.In retrospect2
in a machismo household the women are meant to clean and cook and be a good wife to their husbands
Being an only daughter in a familyof six sons forced me by circumstance tospend a lot of time by myself because mybrothers felt it beneath them to play with agirl in publi
again i do think that this has to do with being raised in a hispanic household
Mexican family of sixsons.” Or even: “I am the only daughter of aMexican father and a Mexican-Americanmother.” Or: “I am the only daughter of aworking-class family of nine.” All of thesehad everything to do with who I am today.
i think that its an important part of her identity that she is the only daughter in a Mexican family that has mostly sons. I think its important to her identity because hispanic families are usually machista. and being the only daughter is a struggle