#CHST302 Loving in the War Years Tweets

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Joseph: “A moment where this is a coming of age novel is when she is serving her brother and his friends. After being busy with all of her own obligations she would still have to get drinks for her brother and his friends. in addition, Moraga would clean his room, iron his clothes and give him her hard earned money so he could blow it on his dates. She recalls her brother saying he never felt deprived. “Of course, he didn’t. He grew up male in our house. He had the best of both worlds.” “male in a man’s world. Light-skinned in a white world.” “

Jessica: “I think the entirely of the book is about Moraga’s coming of age. Some parts of her writing are more explicit and she directly makes note that some situation or experience helped to shape her worldview, or there will be a poem where she alludes to a certain idea. Her coming of age occurs through her trying to find her sexual and cultural identities. I see most of the book as this tool for trying to pinpoint these identities, Chicana and lesbian, that she wants to embrace. Compared to House on Mango Street, I think Moraga has a more complex coming of age. Hers isn’t just about sexual identity, it is also wrapped up in culture and ethnicity and that makes her far more complicated.”

Yadira: “Feed the Mexican Back into Her” on page 146, is touching. She was encouraging others to be who they are and not try to change their identity to fit the “white” world. Even is one wants to speak the white words, they are coming out of a colored individual. “It is the fire you see coming out from inside me…darkness you still wear…the light you reach for across the table and into my heart”. “

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