For my short story 3 I chose the story "American History" by Judith Ortiz Cofer. To my suprisment this story was actually pretty good. It started out kind of boring, but then it quickly became interesting. I felt disappointed when I finished this book though, I didn't understand why they author didn't write more and it's almost like she didn't finish her story. The subject is American History. The theme was life in a poor neighborhood. I agree with the author. I think she was trying to reveal that life isn't always easy and kids get picked on.
This story is about a little Puerto Rico girl that is not very popular and get called "skinny bones" all the time and lives in an apartment building always looking down upon a house next to her paying attention to whom lives there and what they do in their lifestyle.
After a Jewish family moving out a white family moves in and she really pays attention to this one since the son, Eugene sits at the kitchen table for most of his time reading and this is something she enjoys to do in her free time. Later they become friends, but one day when he asks her to come over and study his parents refuse to let him be involved with her and that very same day president Kennedy is shot she was at school when it happened so they sent all the students home. The whole town is really heartbroken about it.
I thought this story was sad but also disappointing because I was looking forward to knowing how things turned up and turned out to be for everyone. I wanted to know how the boy reacted about his mom treating that girl(his friend). I wanted to know how she and her family turned out, if the mom was okay or not and this story did not end with any of these it just stopped all of a sudden and did not explain things very well.
I thought she showed how she felt about that girls lifestyle and how hard it must be by the way she showed sympathy towards the girl getting picked on.
A movie I liked would be saw. The theme is giving people a dose of their own medicine. the subject is they have to escape before time runs out.
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