Summary:
After not returning home for two days, Manny's mom decides to go out to look for his dad. The first place she looks is the pool hall where Manny's dad hung out a lot. There she found him and dragged him out. Later, upon his dads return to the house he began to shout and call out for Manny's mom. Then it got really scary when his dad began to look for his riffle. While he was shouting he woke up Manny's sister, Pedi, who he used to help him look for his bullets. After Pedi gave him the bullets he began to fire at what seemed to be Manny's mom. Then, Manny's mom caught a break when the cops arrived with a report that a man was shooting a his wife. His dad tried to deny it and so did his mom but the officers found the riffle and took his dad to jail. After some time in jail Manny's dad got out and upon his return to the house drove the kids down to grandmas house to clean up her garden. A few months after their cleanup of grandmas garden she died.
Quote:
"Then her face became more alert, and she turned to the officer leading Dad out of the door. 'Take him,' she said, softly at first, then with decided anger. 'Go ahead, take him!'" (Martinez, 67)
I think that this quote is a pretty good example of how hard it is growing up in this environment for a kid like Manny. I cant imagine how hard it must be to see your own drunk father trying to shoot your mother and then to see him get arrested and taken to jail by the police.
Reaction:
After reading this section I find it hard to believe that this family has made it this far because as far as I'm concerned this is not the first time a thing like this happens. what is amazing to me is how Manny has managed to deal with all these situations.
Friendship Beyond the Fence
Monday, December 20, 2010
Monday, December 13, 2010
Parrot in the Oven: Mi Vida (Pgs. 1-48)
Summary:
In this first section of the book I learned that the family is of Mexican nationality and was introduced, by the narrator to the family and a basic rundown of how things go on within the family. I learned that Manny's older brother Bernardo, or "Nardo" as they called him, lives kind of a disorganized life. His own mother thought that he sold marijuana, or did some other illegal shamelessness. I also discover that young Manny has a thing for baseball and he has seen this baseball glove that he really likes. Now me personally love baseball and that was a connection that I made immediately to the book. Manny says he dreams of being out there in center field making spectacular catches but I dream about standing out there on second base and making magnificent plays. Manny tells me that he is going to go pick chili peppers in a field to try to make some money to buy his glove. Later on when he is picking the field, a group of vans approach the field and ICE agents rush out onto the fields and take the workers away. After that very disturbing incident, Manny says that his mom wants him to go to another school, one in which he will have a better chance.
Quote:
"My first thought was to run, but when I saw three more vans and a large labor bus pop out of a norrow road in the cornfield bordering ours, I knew the Immigration had come for the people" (Martinez, 15)
When I first read this part I was angry because I know that these hard working people were not doing any thing wrong and that the only reason why they were taking them was because they were undocumented. This quote just shows what was going on around Manny and how it can effect him in the future.
Reactioin:
After reading the first section of the book I have some mixed feelings and all sorts of thoughts running through my head. The one thing that made me angry as I read was the part when the field workers were taken by ICE because they were working hard to pick the chilis that others would refuse to pick, because they were doing the jobs that other people refuse to do. And then they say that, "they are taking all our jobs".
In this first section of the book I learned that the family is of Mexican nationality and was introduced, by the narrator to the family and a basic rundown of how things go on within the family. I learned that Manny's older brother Bernardo, or "Nardo" as they called him, lives kind of a disorganized life. His own mother thought that he sold marijuana, or did some other illegal shamelessness. I also discover that young Manny has a thing for baseball and he has seen this baseball glove that he really likes. Now me personally love baseball and that was a connection that I made immediately to the book. Manny says he dreams of being out there in center field making spectacular catches but I dream about standing out there on second base and making magnificent plays. Manny tells me that he is going to go pick chili peppers in a field to try to make some money to buy his glove. Later on when he is picking the field, a group of vans approach the field and ICE agents rush out onto the fields and take the workers away. After that very disturbing incident, Manny says that his mom wants him to go to another school, one in which he will have a better chance.
Quote:
"My first thought was to run, but when I saw three more vans and a large labor bus pop out of a norrow road in the cornfield bordering ours, I knew the Immigration had come for the people" (Martinez, 15)
When I first read this part I was angry because I know that these hard working people were not doing any thing wrong and that the only reason why they were taking them was because they were undocumented. This quote just shows what was going on around Manny and how it can effect him in the future.
Reactioin:
After reading the first section of the book I have some mixed feelings and all sorts of thoughts running through my head. The one thing that made me angry as I read was the part when the field workers were taken by ICE because they were working hard to pick the chilis that others would refuse to pick, because they were doing the jobs that other people refuse to do. And then they say that, "they are taking all our jobs".
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