Well, we spent some time discussing Sandra Cisneros' vignette, "Those Who Don't". Even though it is one of the shortest in the book, I feel it has a lot of meaning. Write in a complete paragraph what this vignette means to you. What is the message you learned from this vignette? Make a connection to a time when you felt different.
From The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
"Those Who Don't"
Those who don't know any better come into our neighborhood scared. They think we're dangerous. They think we will attack them with shiny knives. They are stupid people who are lost and got here by mistake.
But we aren't afraid. We know the guy with the crooked eye is Davey the Baby's brother, and the tall one next to him in the straw brim, that's Rosa's Eddie V., and the big one that looks like a dumb grown man, he's Fat Boy, though he's not fat anymore nor a boy.
All brown all around, we are safe. But watch us drive into a neighborhood of another color and our knees go shakity-shake and our car windows get rolled up tight and our eyes look straight. Yea. That's how it goes and goes.
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What this vinette means to me is that people thnik that becuase they don't live there or have the same skin color they think that they are dangerouse and arn't just like them, but in reality there is no real difference. Also that they judge people like Essperonza befor they get to know them. The message that i learned was like i said befor don't judge a person befor you know them, becasue they are just like you.(just differnt in appearance)another message is that i learned that you should no be afraid and have your knees shake when you feel that your that one.The one time when i felt different was when i was in a vollyball camp in the summer in 6th grade and it was open to any grade higher then 5th. but i was then only one in 6th grade i felt that i was different. although i was younger i still made new friends and did'nt feel so differnt after i realized i was just like them but younger.
if feel different when i am with differnent people that i dont know. i like this vigette because i like meeting new people from diffrent areas and some people like most of the people when i came to 6th grade i meet every one from other schools except for mine.
one time i went to my dads house in new providence and i meet a kid named jamal and we hung out and played man hunt it was fun but the first hour i chilled with him i felt a lattle weird cause its like meeting a new friend
Today, I woke and mssed the bus and went inside. I knew if I told my mom to give me a ride to school, she would brake a diamond. So I decided to skate to school, which was about four miles. I was so tired because I had a ten pound back-pack on my back for fifty two minutes while traveling four miles on a skateboard. Six hours later, I had to go home and I still had my skateboard with me. So I went on the bus with my skateboard and everyone started staring at me, then I went home.
The mean of this vinette is that people think other people in other towns, states, or country are dangerous because of there skin color or because they don't live there. Some of the other people feel the same way. It also means, don't judge people before you know them because you wouldn't like it if they did the same to you. We all are like skateboards, they have different looks, scratches and bruises, different types (Element & Zero), some brake faster then others, but It's, literally, the same in the inside and you can still tre flip a nine stair with them.
This vinette means that you feel save when you know where you are. In the vinette they feel save where they are. If they are not in there town they dont feel as safe as they usually do. I can connect to that. Once i went to my frined joes house with mike. We walked all over the town. I did not feel as safe as i usually would walking around my town.
&LAURICELLA&
This vignette is telling you how it was back inthe day. ALso how Sandra wanted it to change she felt that everybody should be treated equally. That is the feed back i got from this vignette.
From personal experience i have encountered this differences to person to person. It is at the hoop vision basketball camp, my first week. During this week i had all of these other girls that played just like me. Makeing three's, foul shots, layup, and more. I fit in the group. The next week with hole new campers but me, the hole cmap stinked, but six girls. So i won 7 contest, and made it to the championship. By that time I felt a little left out bcause i was not comfortable playing againgst girls who shoot with two hands on the ball.So championship game, there is one girl on the other team who is pretty good. After a while i just start scoring crazy three after three. She gets really angry at me. So then she finally is playing tough on me, get a little to mad and gets over board. Since i felt more comfortable after playing with ameatures, we won by 67 points.
I know it long, sorry Ms. Ehid (got to have detail.
This vinette ment to me that you are welcome at your neboirhood. And you are not welcome at any other nebiorhood in a way like in the story it said browns all around something like that.
that means that evey one in that nebiorhodd feels save when brown are all around.
one time i went into victorias seceret and a felt uncomfortable because i don't where the stuff thats in there. i thought the meaning of the passage was that where ever you go the people are all the sdame and to not be afraid and just be yourself. Also it does not matter what color your skin is, everybody is the same no matter what, were all just people on the planet Earth.
(")(-_-)(") haave a good day.
What i thought about this story thing was that you should feel the same even if u aer in a diffrent place or even at a diffrent house.
like one time i was walking up this hill with a path on it and some crazy person told me i wasnt supose to walk up there because i was a kid. So i called her a kid and then she told me she was 20 something and it scared the crap out of me because she still lived with her parents and was mad.
i always feel diffrent. i dont call it diffrent i call it unique because i have long hair i always get loooks because its diffrewnt but im geting my hair cut today so its ok.
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