The things that I leanred from this book was to be able to remember where you came from, and to remember what you had to do to get through life everyday. I think that the strengths of this book was the short meaningful stories, and the use of language throughout the book. I think that some of the weaknesses in this book would be the going from different stories to stories. It made a good read but it was had to figure out what place you were in when the author was going to story to story.
My favorite story that we had to read for today would be "The Monkey Garden". The reason I liked this one is because it was showing how the kids were afraid of the monkey that one of their neighbors had. It showed that they are afraid of something that is so wild. I thought it was wierd when Esperonza said "This is where I wanted to die and where I tried one day but not even the monkey garden would have me. It was the last day that I would go there"(Cisneros 96).
that was a good story.it was a good break from the serious stuff.
ReplyDeleteit was rrrrreally great!
ReplyDeleteI agree that it was a little hard to follow the stories when they skipped around so much.
ReplyDeleteI really liked this story as well. In a way I thought that this story was serious in it's own way that was maybe a little hidden.
ReplyDeletei agree with you that it made it harder to read when she skipped around with the stories but i also think it made it more interesting
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