{"id":9736,"date":"2022-12-02T17:57:15","date_gmt":"2022-12-02T22:57:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-fall-2022-conway\/?p=9736"},"modified":"2022-12-02T17:57:15","modified_gmt":"2022-12-02T22:57:15","slug":"tamar-abelson-discussion-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2023-conway\/2022\/12\/02\/tamar-abelson-discussion-15\/","title":{"rendered":"Tamar Abelson Discussion 15"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The vignette that <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">made the strongest impression on me from \u201c<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The House on Mango Street\u201d<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> is \u201cThere Was an Old Woman She Had So Many Children She Didn\u2019t Know What to Do\u201d. This vignette is about Rosa Vargas, a woman who lives in the neighborhood and has too many, and too wild children. She is a single mom since the father of her kids left her alone. This vignette specifically caught my attention because I thought it would be a funny story (from the title and the first 2 lines of it) until I realized it\u2019s not funny at all. Rosa is struggling to take care of her own children, who cause a lot of trouble, all by herself. It seems like her neighbors tried to help her but gave up because the kids are very naughty, and at the end of the day, they\u2019re not their responsibility. I can tell that this vignette, along with the others, is written from a young and naive point of view. The way she writes about some unfortunate experiences in a nonchalant way, and not giving them much of the attention they should have gotten.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The vignette that made the strongest impression on me from \u201cThe House on Mango Street\u201d is \u201cThere Was an Old Woman She Had So Many Children She Didn\u2019t Know What to Do\u201d. This vignette is about Rosa Vargas, a woman who lives in the neighborhood and has too many, and too wild children. She is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6181,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"portfolio_post_id":0,"portfolio_citation":"","portfolio_annotation":"","openlab_post_visibility":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-week-15-discussion","czr-hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2023-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2023-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2023-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2023-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6181"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2023-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9736"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2023-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9738,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2023-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9736\/revisions\/9738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2023-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2023-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2023-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}