Thursday, March 28, 2013
Summary 5-9 Ishmael F.
In chapters five through nine and we find our how easily influenced Victor really is. Early on in chapter five a new kid from Boston recently arrived at Victors school he got to be really good friends with Victor and was able to connect to him. When he found out that Victor was Mexican their friendship took a turn for he worse once again Victor had someone calling him a dirty filthy Mexican. Victor was really depressed to here these word from his friend and was hurt deeply. The rest of Victors year in kindergarten was as horrible as the first days his teacher was still the same mean and Victor became a daily bed wetter. By this time Victor's families new house was under construction, and one day when Victors dad was working with dynamite he made a careless mistake and a big stump of a tree ended smashing the constructors car. Victor saw his dad apologizing and calling himself stupid something he had never seen before. Then that same afternoon he saw his dad go with him to the dealer and bu him a brand new truck. In this occasion Victor learned the importance of generosity and that if he knew who he had to be generous to it would help him in the long run. In the next chapters we find Victor finally enjoying school because he was good with numbers and all they were focusing on was math. This episode in his life helped rise his hopes up and gave him just a little more courage. But wen he found out that if he didn't catch up with his reading by the end of the year, he would have to repeat the class this once again brought him back down into the slumps and made him feel useless again. In chapters 5-9 we can clearly see how easily influenced of a person Victor really is and how it affects his personality thought the book.
Thursday, March 21, 2013
Discussion Chapter 9-12
2. What obstacle do you think that held him back from getting better at reading?
3. After the lizard and snails incident, Victor has prayed God and the animals to forgive him. What respond did he get and what was the lesson/value that he achieved?
4. What was the irony that Victor was laughing about while he was watching his father and Ford?
5. How did Victor feel about his dad after his dad explained to him why he made the man ate his own tanates?
6. Why did Victor draw stars? What was stars symbolized in this situation?
7. Why did Victor conclude that he was the one that supposed to "leave" the Earth?
8. After the argument between Lupe and her husband and father-to-son talk, what do you conclude about Victor's family bonding ?
CHAPTER 12 IS SO SAD.
I'm sorry for the late post. Things have been going quite messy these days and there was many works to do. Don't be hesitate, we will finish this book hoho.
QUOTE OF THE DAY: "You see, to be a good hombre a las todas is to be - just like a man's balls - soft and tender inside your heart, and yes, easy to be hurt."
Chpt. 5-7 Travel Tracer/ Tracker
- Victor meets Howard, a white freckled kid that gave him the idea of carrying knifes to school.
-When Victor went home, he began to look at his family as "dirty, bad. people you couldn't trust", he didn't want to be a Mexican.
-At school Victor took two pocket knifes and was showing them to his friends.
- He was caught handling them and was accused of being in a knife fight.
-When he went home, he decided to run away.
-While trying to run away on his horse, he came across two cowboys who came from Arizona.
-He introduced the cowboys to his father and asked him if they could stay.
-The cowboys stayed for the night with the Mustangs they had.
-At school he saw Ramon carrying his fathers pocket knife and asked for it back but Ramon didn't give it to him. His dad ended up buying another one.
-When Victor went home, he began to look at his family as "dirty, bad. people you couldn't trust", he didn't want to be a Mexican.
-At school Victor took two pocket knifes and was showing them to his friends.
- He was caught handling them and was accused of being in a knife fight.
-When he went home, he decided to run away.
-While trying to run away on his horse, he came across two cowboys who came from Arizona.
-He introduced the cowboys to his father and asked him if they could stay.
-The cowboys stayed for the night with the Mustangs they had.
-At school he saw Ramon carrying his fathers pocket knife and asked for it back but Ramon didn't give it to him. His dad ended up buying another one.
Chpt. 1-4 Researcher
CATE- California Association of Teachers of English; a convention that took place in Oceanside where teachers from New York and Eastern States met together
Macho!- Victor's first published book. It was published after 260 rejections and he only got paid $4,500 for three years that it took to write it, which is like making $1,500 a year
vaqueros- Spanish word for cowboys
Army Navy Academy- the Middle School Victor went to in Carlsbad
Macho!- Victor's first published book. It was published after 260 rejections and he only got paid $4,500 for three years that it took to write it, which is like making $1,500 a year
vaqueros- Spanish word for cowboys
Army Navy Academy- the Middle School Victor went to in Carlsbad
Wednesday, March 20, 2013
Summaries chapter's 5-8
5. In chapter five we see how easily influenced Victor really is. When a kid from Boston came to their class he got to be good friends with Victor but when he found out he was Mexican. He screamed in horror because he thought Victor had a knife. Of course Victor didn't have a knife but at the time he felt that if his friend said it it must have been true. At the end of this chapter Victor feels sick being a Mexican because we he was being persuaded at school that Mexicans were no good dirty people.
6.In. The beginning of this chapter Victor brings two knifes to school because he now believed that all Mexicans carried knifes. In school one of his knifes gets confiscated by his teacher and Ramon takes the other one. Victor gets in trouble with the teacher and gets taken to the office, with his parents being called to school. His mother gets mad at him while his father actually takes Victors side and exclaims that the knife was unusable in the first place therefore harmless. By the end of chapter six Victor is running away from home when he encounters two cowboys with a herd of mustangs on their way to Hollywood and he ends up leading them into his ranch so they can rest their herd. Victor learns from these two cowboys that Mexicans can actually be warm oving people and his faith in his race is partly restored.
7. In this chapter Victor learns an important lesson of generosity from his father and how one can never be to generous. He also learns that school didn't get worse and he felt really depressed about having to go back even refusing to go back to school shopping. Victor became a daily bed wetter and was terrified about school and worked very hard to keep up with the class to fit in but sadly he just couldn't. Victor realizes that he needs to really appreciate what he had and just slowly get better.
6.In. The beginning of this chapter Victor brings two knifes to school because he now believed that all Mexicans carried knifes. In school one of his knifes gets confiscated by his teacher and Ramon takes the other one. Victor gets in trouble with the teacher and gets taken to the office, with his parents being called to school. His mother gets mad at him while his father actually takes Victors side and exclaims that the knife was unusable in the first place therefore harmless. By the end of chapter six Victor is running away from home when he encounters two cowboys with a herd of mustangs on their way to Hollywood and he ends up leading them into his ranch so they can rest their herd. Victor learns from these two cowboys that Mexicans can actually be warm oving people and his faith in his race is partly restored.
7. In this chapter Victor learns an important lesson of generosity from his father and how one can never be to generous. He also learns that school didn't get worse and he felt really depressed about having to go back even refusing to go back to school shopping. Victor became a daily bed wetter and was terrified about school and worked very hard to keep up with the class to fit in but sadly he just couldn't. Victor realizes that he needs to really appreciate what he had and just slowly get better.
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