I can hear discarded peanut shells crunch beneath my feet, and each step is marked with a pronounced crunch.
Mood: At first he wasn't really feeling the baseball game but in the end he really enjoyed it.
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the whole experience in general, going to a Major League Baseball game is the perfect way to glimpse a slice of Americana.
I enjoyed this story because he is saying that his experience at the baseball game was like a glimpse of America.
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I cannot help but feel a bit of national pride at this realization. Seeing the international representation on the field reminds me of the ways that Americans, though from many different backgrounds and places, still come together under common ideals.
I realized that at first he wasn't proud of Americans but then he actually felt proud of how everyone from different places got together for something they all have in common.
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a cheering fan bumps into my pop hand. The pop splashes out of the cup and all over my shirt, leaving me drenched.
The author makes eye contact with the man who bumped into him and the guy looks at his shirt, he tells him he is sorry, and then the author just shakes his head and keeps walking. That bothered him.
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Few tastes are as American as hot dogs and soda pop,
Hot dogs and soda pop are traditional food in America.
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“Attention fans. In honor of our country, please remove your caps for the singing of the national anthem.
For Americans it's an honor and respect to sing the American National Anthem.
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reminded of all things American. From the national anthem to the international players on the field, all the sights and sounds of a baseball game
Setting- At baseball game and it reminds the author of "all things American".
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This is the moment when absence begins toassume a material form, when what is not there becomes visible.
This text seems very gloomy and sad.
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It takes quite a while to see all of this; it takes even longer to come upwith something to say about it.
I'm confused on whether he actually is seeing all of this of if its just imaginary.
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the people around me had in mind images fromtelevision and newspaper pictures: the collapsing buildings, therunning office workers, the black plume of smoke against a brightblue sky. Like me, they were probably trying to superimpose thoseterrible images onto the industrious emptiness right in front of them.
The author says people had different things in mind and like him they were trying to observe the terrible images onto "emptiness".
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it became clear that this was an honor guard, and that someone's remains were beingcarried up the ramp toward the open door of an ambulance.
The author finally got his "ticket to the disaster" like what the security told him and when he got there there was a dead persons remains.
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whether we are motivated by curiosity or horror orreverence or grief, or by something confusing that combines them all--that space fills up again.
The thousands of visitors that were going to this place, were coming to see the wide emptiness where many were lost.
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once your eyes adjust to what you are looking at,''nothing'' becomes something much more potent, which is absence.
The author at first thought that what people were craning to see across the street, there was nothing to see but when he looked for longer he said it became something.
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I visited Manhattan's financialdistrict, a place I'd never been, to pay my respects at what used to bethe World Trade Center.
In march on a cold damp morning the author decided to visit the financial district.
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The author Sandra Cisnero's dad feels proud of her writing and wants to show it off to the rest of the relatives. She thinks that's the best thing that happened all year to her.
"my father looked up and asked: “Where can we get more copies of this for the relatives?” Of all the wonderful things that happened to me last year, that was the most wonderful."
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Cisnero's dad only feels proud of the oldest son that graduated from medical school.
"When my oldest brother graduated from medical school, he fulfilled my father’s dream that we study hard"
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-Connection with the author -Sandra grew up in Chicago just like me.
"growing up in Chicago,"
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Her dad believed Cisnero's is destined to find a husband since she was the only daughter out of all his children.
"After four years in college and two more in graduate school, and still no husband, my father shakes his head even now and says I wasted all that education."
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"plans for college with him, I was sure he understood. I remember my father saying, “Que bueno, mi’ha, that’s good.”
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Identity- Being the only daughter in a Hispanic household of nine is part of who she has become.
"Mexican father and a Mexican-American mother.” Or: “I am the only daughter of a working-class family of nine.” All of these had everything to do with who I am today."
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The author has 6 brothers and she's the only daughter.
: “I am the only daughter in a family of six sons".
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