Most of the book Once upon a Quincenra, deals with people that are already here, not actual immigrants. The only person that was an immigrant so far, is the actual author of the book. The only quote that I have found that applies to immigration, was when the author refers to her family having moved to the U.S.
In 1963, when she moved to the U.S. She and her sisters had been told by passersby on the street who herd them talking loudly in Spanish: “Spics! Go back to where you came from!” Yet in spite of this and other racist incidents happening, there was no question that her older sister was still going to have a quince.
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I think that this quote shows that the author was discriminated upon when she was young and is trying to show that despite any racist problems, the coming of age ceremony was still a very big part of their lives. I think that if she wanted to write about being an immigrant in the U.S., she could have just written her life's story. This book is not really about immigrants, but girls of a different nationality celebrating one of their traditions in the U.S. Despite the fact that she had trouble immigrating here, this does not mean that all immigrants had that bad of an experience in the U.S.
Why do you think that keeping to tradition is more important then fitting in?
Where are your questions for your group?
ReplyDeleteI agree with killian they were being rasist to the person. um and also killian you forgot to answer the two questions that you had typed so..... I cant really respond to that but make sure to fill it out and ill soon respond
ReplyDeleteI think that keeping your tradition is important because that is who you are. If your just trying to fit in, that is not who you are. If you are hiding who you are then you're really not a person. You're just what someone wants you to be. Your culture is who you are and you should be proud of who you are.
ReplyDeletei also agree with killian because that is really true because it is not talking about immigrant or the parents being immigrants it talking about how every mexican girl is different. like some girls dont want a 15 they want a 16 or they don't want anything at all.
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