Hello class! Here’s a link to the blog I’ve created for this project: http://shadownarrator.wordpress.com/2014/04/11/maria-cristina-menas-the-vine-leaf-and-an-re-interpretation-of-this-story-from-the-painters-view/ In this post I briefly introduced Mena since sadly not many people have heard of her. Also I included the first part of the short story … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: April 2014
In her Article entitled “Isolation and Stigmatization in the Development of an Underclass: The Case of Chicano Gangs in East Los Angeles” Joan W. Moore traces the development of youth gangs in East Los Angeles. She identifies four key instances … Continue reading
As I was doing research for this post, a response by Helena Maria Viramontes during an interview with La Bloga really stuck with me: “I realized that the structure of the novel began to resemble the freeway intersections … And like … Continue reading
The book, Their Dogs Came with Them, tells a very intriguing story of four characters growing up in East Los Angeles when the freeways constructions took place ruining many neighborhoods. Through out the book I find that Tranquilina is the … Continue reading
Although I have only began to read Viramontes’ novel Their Dogs Came with Them, I can already discern a pattern of exclusion, isolation and hesitant solidarity amid these characters. The sheer structure of the book, which hints at possible connections … Continue reading
In her novel Their Dogs Came With Them, Helena Viramontes chronicles the lives of four young women as they navigate their lives through the tumultuous barrio of East Los Angeles in 1960’s. Virmonte’s novel immediately takes on a feminist undercurrent as … Continue reading
After reading the first sections of the book, it becomes clear that there is a constant struggle for identity that is prevalent among all the characters thus far. I thought this was an interesting topic, as nearly every book … Continue reading
La llorona is a widely known story across different countries, ethnicities, and has multiple origins, but the basic premise holds similar in most of them: of a woman who kills her children and then commits suicide because her husband … Continue reading
The idea of change is repeated with much regularity towards the end of the book, What You See in the Dark. The author, Manuel Munoz, outlined the numerous changes that various characters of the book were experiencing through the years … Continue reading
After only reading the first 100 pages, I have to say that I am really enjoying this book, mainly because it is structured in a way that each character’s story is told as it being the main story, but … Continue reading