5/4/3/2/1 #1

Daniel Sanchez

5/4/3/2/1 NOTES. "RUNNING AWAY" BY LUIS J. RODRIGUEZ

5-COMMENTS

*SETTING: November 1950, Watts, Los Angeles.

*It was a 6 members family(Alfonso: father, Maria Estela: mother, Jose Rene: older brother, Ana Virginia and Gloria Estela: younger sisters, and the narrator.

*This family was an immmigrant family that left Ciudad Juarez, Mexico when the narrator when he was two years old and came to Los Angeles.

*The narrator is mostly describing his family roots and members of his family, and telling how they got to where they are.

*It shows how situations in other countries force many people to seek the American dream.

4- QUESTIONS

*Did people become legal in this country when a son or daughter was born in this country?

*Were there gangs in the United States by 1950.

*What year did immigrants from Latin America started to come to this country?

*Were there schools for people who did not speak the language?

3-VOCABULARY:

*sepia-colored: dark raddish-brown.

*phlegm: thick mocus discharged from the throat, as during a cold.

*whimper: to cry or utter with low, whinnig, broken sounds.

2-LITERARY TERMS:

*Conflict: most of the first chapter is description of places and characters.

*Similies: "this laughing like a raven's wail, a harsh wind's shriek, a laugh that I would hear countless beatings theresfter".

1- In this chapter, the narrator describes his family, and his roots. He also describes some of his adventures as a boy , besides he talks about how and why they come to the United States, Los Angeles more spacifically, and all the situations his family has had to confront throuhgaot their lives which are mostly bad situations.