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Quote #1

page 230
"Just reading the Latina writers who began to emerge in the mid- to late eighties helped me feel encouraged and less alone."

This quote has to do with the book because there are a lot of struggles for Latinas and when the author says this it makes it seen that the struggle just gets less or goes away. And that fact that the Latina culture has reached out and has done some extraordinary things is surprising. Most of the stereotypical ones now a days are not as achieving.

This quote has to do with me because I have not reached out into the world like I have wanted to but soon in the coming years I will try to. They write books and I will help animals in need of a place to go. So as you we are just a like but so far apart.

Question #1
What does the word emerge mean?


Quote #2

Page 242
"Latina girls are in crisis, and if we deny it and ignore it, we will doom them with our complacency," an editorial in the same issue of El Diario/ La Prensa warns.

This has to do with the book because it is teling us that the females, as aposed to the prevous quote, are in trouble. It would take a lot to get these girls back on track to get themselves going again. These girls are always forgetting their place and time but they should really just listen to what the past has and the future has to offer.

This has to do with me because well I sometimes lose my way but I always end up having someone to help me. All these girls need someone to help them along. They need a mom or an aunt or a grandma to teach them to go the right way and to be a good person.

Question #2
What does complacency mean?

post # 5

Quote # 1

page 185
"The annual debut at the Centro Espanol was an even for the daughters of the best families, which in that small city mean mostly middle-class girls whose fathers were professionals. doctors, lawyers, businessmen."

This quote has to do with the book because it is saying that the people who are in this town that have their families represented by there daughters. They are usually not that rich but not exactly what you would call poor. The daughters probably were spoiled and they were probably only child.

This quote has to do with me because I grew up with a sister and she was the one who got everything. To me she was the prize child she was everything that a parent could wish for. I was well the wild child. And my father was gone a lot of my child hood, he was on leave with his navy ship, and I was not the one representing our family my sister was.

Question #1
What is the Centro Espanol?


Quote # 2

page 203
"At the end of the performance, the colored girls came off the stage, singing and dancing, and beckoning the mostly female audience to join them."

This has to do with the book because there is a lot of femininity in this book. And just adding this into it was making it have to with it more. In this book there is basically only femininity. it has a big part on life.

It has to do with me because well I am a female and I enjoy dancing and singing too. But this quote is very stereotypical saying that all girls do is dance and sing. For an example my sister wants to be an engineer and she does not like to sing or dance much. But she still does it for fun.

Question #1
What does beckoning mean?

post # 4

Quote #1

page 151
"But does the tradition persist in upper-class Latino circles here? A tradition, of course, can be celebrated only in the context of a community, and though working-class Latin Americans and Caribbeans and Mexicans ... for the most part the rich and powerful have not reason to leave their home countries."

This quote is talking about how that the rich Latinos get to stay in there home country and don't have to move to America because it is cheaper. Now I don't think that it is cheaper to live here but they also move here to have a better living and have more freedom. It was also explaining the different types of Hispanics that were apart of this.

It has to do with me because my family and I are kind of poor and we don't have enough money to go do a lot of stuff that we really want to do. We just have to deal with what we have and not complain. Even though I see the people who get everything that they want I then re think and I say to my self that I don't want to have everything because then I would have nothing.

Question #1
What exactly is a working-class?


Quote #2

page 175
"But one thing is clear: quinceaneras are as much about the mothers as they are about the daughters."

This quote is basically saying that when the daughter has it it makes her become an adult but it is also saying that the mother has done her duty and raised her daughter right. Now she can let her daughter go and become a beautiful butterfly to learn on her own. I think that the mother probably feels really old after the quinceanera takes place.

This quote has to do with me because my mom is always telling me that I can not grow and i can not get any older because she wants me to stay her little girl and not get too big before she gets too short. I am always talking about how in the next year I will be taller. When it comes to the time of my birthday a couple of days later its my moms and she is saying that it is my fault that she gets older. I just always laugh when she says that (because I know its not true).

Question #2

What does perplexing mean?