beautiful and cruel:
i thought this story was very interesting. especially the part when esperanza mentions how she will have a "quiet war", or in other words an eventual rebellion against her life on mango street. she wants to escape mango street and begin a better life of her own. I also found it very interesting the part when she mentions no one coming for her, so she has to break away on her own. this relates to the later story the three sisters who tell her that when she leaves mango street she must come back to help the others that cannot escape mango street. in this story, she reveals her insecurities about herself but they do not she to pullher down.
red clowns:
i found this story very interesting. instead of feeling violated after being raped esperanza is angry at sally, which i found very odd. Her angry at sally pertains to her impression of sex. Sally told esperanza sex was this beautiful, life changing experience but when esperanza is raped, she feels disappointed and she feels as if she never wants to have sex again. this story also has racial prejudice this is revealed when the rapist says "i love you spanish girl" obvisously he felt superior to esperanza and he felt that violating her was not wrong, but it is a crime.
3 comments:
I agree with your blog. I also thought it was very weir when Esperanza was mad at Sally instead of the horrible man. I also noticed the racial prejudice in this story and felt really bad that she was discriminated against and taken advantage of just because she is Spanish.
I also wrote about this vignette because i thought it was very weird. I thought it was strange that she blamed Sally for the rape, because Esperanza didn't know any better. I noticed the racial prejudice in this vignette, as well. Good job :)
I liked your blog Esperanza getting rapped in Red Clowns. I too thought it was odd that she was mad at sally after what she had gone through. I think that her writing about the racial words that were said by the men like "I love you Spanish girl" shows the segregation and racial issues that she lived in. I think that you should put more opinion into your blog like if it related to you in anyway. Otherwise i thought it was really good. =]
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