Monday, October 20, 2008

DANIEL SANCHEZ.

5/4/3/2/1 notes # 4

COMMENTS:

*The mexicans who lived in the San Gabriel Valley were thw ones who worked in fields, railroads, or even enchroaching industry.

*When asians from Japan, Korea, and Taiwan also moved into the area, and this areas became known as Little Japans, and Chinatowns.

*Many barrios(neighborhoods) cuch as Las Lomas started to created gangs.

*Las Lomas was one of the country's most devasting increases in gang activity.

*Miguel became the leader/president of the narrator's club/gang.

QUESTIONS:

*why didn't the government help to prevent all those gang's problems ?, and like that also prevent the problems that are going on right now in thhe society.

*if the United States was going to treat immigrats like the way they do, then why did they bring them to work here?

*for what reasons were teachers were scared of those guys in clubs/gangs?

*what were the resons why people started to join gangs?

VOCABULARY:

*pivoted: a person or thing on which something depends.

*cyanide: a highly poisonous, white, crystaline compound.

*wisdom: teh equality of being wise: good judgement.

LITERARY TERMS:

*Similies: "whispers of morning, whispers of night, children without faces tormenting with a word, decending like a torrent of leaves, like a blaze of dawn." The author writes in page #39.

*Direct Characterization: the author uses direct characterization when he talks about his first love, Elena, to who the author describes as: "Elena, who came to Garvey all prendida. She didn't just know how to kiss, but how to take my hand through sections of her body and teach a pre-teen something of his own budding sexuality."page #44.

SUMMARY:

In this part of the book, the author is again describing situations of his life as a teenage, however now he describes it more detailedly, because this time he talks about all his friends and girlfriends he had when he was involved in gangs, and how he got into gangs, besides he explains how he and his brother are getting separated, because they're taking different roads in life, and how Rano came from being a loser to be a very reconized and diciplined person.

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