{"id":11845,"date":"2023-05-13T01:34:51","date_gmt":"2023-05-13T05:34:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2023-celeste-conway\/?p=11845"},"modified":"2023-05-14T21:35:56","modified_gmt":"2023-05-15T01:35:56","slug":"sophia-morales-discussion-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2023-celeste-conway\/2023\/05\/13\/sophia-morales-discussion-16\/","title":{"rendered":"Sophia Morales Discussion 16"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>The third vignette, &#8220;Boys &amp; Girls,&#8221; intrigued me because it was interesting to read the narrator&#8217;s point of view. The idea that you don&#8217;t pick your family is very true, yet it doesn&#8217;t feel too great when you can&#8217;t rely on your siblings as your best friends because they&#8217;re so different from you or because they act a certain way. I, personally, am very close to my brother and my sister, but I can understand the narrator&#8217;s statement, &#8220;Carlos and Kiki are each other&#8217;s best friend&#8230; not ours.&#8221; I can understand this because while we are very close, there were times that I&#8217;ve felt as though they liked each other more or had a better bond because I came around a long while later. Family relationships can be funny that way.<\/li>\n<li>The first vignette, &#8220;The House on Mango Street,&#8221; surprised me because I can relate to the story in every way. I know how it feels to have to move all of the time because each time, things didn&#8217;t go as planned. I related to the narrator when the nun asked where the narrator lives, &#8220;You live<em> there?<\/em> The way she said it made me feel like nothing. <em>There<\/em>. I lived<em> there<\/em>. I nodded.&#8221; I can hear how the nun is pronouncing the word &#8220;there&#8221; with a tone of disbelief and I can feel the same level of embarrassment the narrator is feeling in this moment. Especially when the narrator goes on to say, &#8220;I knew then I had to have a house. A real house. One I could point to.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>The fourth vignette, &#8220;My Name,&#8221; puzzled me only because I am not sure if the narrator is literally saying that her great-grandmother&#8217;s husband really did throw a sack over her head and carry her away. I want to hope that it is simply a figure of speech, but it doesn&#8217;t seem that way.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The third vignette, &#8220;Boys &amp; Girls,&#8221; intrigued me because it was interesting to read the narrator&#8217;s point of view. 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