Hello everyone,
In this week reading, “The house on mango street”, pg 56 and to the end. The vignette that most impressed me was, In Page 90-91, “A smart cookie”. This impressed me because in this vignette it talks about how her mother tells Esperanza, our narrator, her life, in like fairy tale way. Explaining why she, wasn’t able to keep on studying for a better life, education. Also the narrator tells us how her mother is a very talented woman. The narrator mother states, “Shame is a bad thing you know, it keeps you down”. and than her mother tells her if she wants to know why she keep school? and than states, “Because I didn’t have nice clothes. No clothes, but I had brains. Yup she says, disgusted. I was a smart cookie then”. So this is the reason I was impressed and the theme of this vignette is to show how sometimes our parents or other people, Did not have the chance or wasn’t able to do what they wanted for the reason of not having things like others do. Also this Is something important because it’s true and sometimes there people out there in this real world where they are talented people but cannot achieve what they want to be, because of the conditions they live in or not being able to study.
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Hello Jose! I enjoyed reading your discussion! The mother probably told Esperanza in a fairytale-like way because she is a child, and children are able to understand things more simply, and something that they can relate to. This is so that it will not make them overthink and create a lot of other ideas. In the Pre-K classroom that I work in, I remember that it is very important to speak to a child in a way that they can understand. I use simple language, make eye contact with them, get down on their level, and have them repeat the information back when I am done speaking. This really helps me a lot because I am able to explain everything to them, and everything behind it, and they are able to interpret it.