The vignette from “The House On Mango Street” that surprised me the most was chanclas. In this vignette the author describes how the mother uses her shoes also known as chanclas as a form of punishment when her kids misbehave. Why this vignette surprised me is because of how normalized violence is in within families as a form of punishment. I grew up with a-lot of Dominicans and they will tell me all the time when they were kids and misbehaving their mothers would use “chanclas” specifically.
The vignette that intrigued me the most was “those who dont”. its a very short vignette only composed of maybe 20 lines but such a powerful message. its about how colored communities are almost always unable to fulfill their dreams because of poverty discrimination and lack of education. How other people like white people were to go her neighborhood they would be scared and think they would be attacked.
The vignette that puzzled me most was red clowns. As i was scrolling through the vignettes I came across red clowns and wanted to read it. it was very weird but I was just confused on how and when it happend. Its about a girls best friend named sally who was taken by clowns at the carnival who touched and sexually assaults her. then a clown grabs a hold of the narrator and starts sexually assaulting her as well.
