1. *The subject of the book is the situtation where the author is alienated from one culture and experiences contempt because of his spanish culture. However, as the author becomes more like "los gringos", he is also alienated from his own spanish culture and his family. So ultimately he is alienated from both cultures because of an association with the other.
2. *The specfic focus of this subject is how this alienation affects the author and what he does about some of the affects. The author leaves almost nothing out from this focus, except for the reason why he doesn 't try to talk to his parents or try to teach them like he was taught in the "los gringos" way so that they could connect. Instead, he allows himself and his family to drift …show more content…
*The author 's purpose for making this point is to show readers that you cannot live life without having both worlds in your mind, your present and your past. This shows readers that although you can change yourself, that you cannot ignore who you used to be. This shows that you cannot completely change yourself and your life and leave your past behind, that your past helps and sometimes alters your progress in life. The life lessons this book provide us with are exorbitant.
5. *I think this purpose is helpful for readers to teach them further about life, and I definitely think the author achieves it. He shows us aspects of his life that some readers can relate to and that others can learn from, either way it is helpful to readers. It shows readers the way of life for some people and how they manage to deal with it, which is didactic in showing us how we can deal with things in our own lives.
6. *I personally think that the author seems to be addressing himself to strangers, people he never expects to meet in real life. He even says that exact statement in the book, that no one that reads this book will come in contact with him, so that is whom he is addressing himself to, and this idea is ubiquitous throughout the book as he describes his life to people who would not know about …show more content…
*The author is discreet with this subject because the subject involving culture affects and settles with everyone differently. If the author says that he is not an underprivileged Mexican-American, then the other Mexicans become angry with him and assume he is denying his heritage. However, if he agrees that he is and underpriviledged person like the others then that is not necessarily true, and then "los gringos" assume that he just wants the privileges that they are being handed too.. The author does not want to be treated differently because of his unsimilar culture and heritage either way, and at this point what he says is futile because people disagree with his statements
2. *The specfic focus of this subject is how this alienation affects the author and what he does about some of the affects. The author leaves almost nothing out from this focus, except for the reason why he doesn 't try to talk to his parents or try to teach them like he was taught in the "los gringos" way so that they could connect. Instead, he allows himself and his family to drift …show more content…
*The author 's purpose for making this point is to show readers that you cannot live life without having both worlds in your mind, your present and your past. This shows readers that although you can change yourself, that you cannot ignore who you used to be. This shows that you cannot completely change yourself and your life and leave your past behind, that your past helps and sometimes alters your progress in life. The life lessons this book provide us with are exorbitant.
5. *I think this purpose is helpful for readers to teach them further about life, and I definitely think the author achieves it. He shows us aspects of his life that some readers can relate to and that others can learn from, either way it is helpful to readers. It shows readers the way of life for some people and how they manage to deal with it, which is didactic in showing us how we can deal with things in our own lives.
6. *I personally think that the author seems to be addressing himself to strangers, people he never expects to meet in real life. He even says that exact statement in the book, that no one that reads this book will come in contact with him, so that is whom he is addressing himself to, and this idea is ubiquitous throughout the book as he describes his life to people who would not know about …show more content…
*The author is discreet with this subject because the subject involving culture affects and settles with everyone differently. If the author says that he is not an underprivileged Mexican-American, then the other Mexicans become angry with him and assume he is denying his heritage. However, if he agrees that he is and underpriviledged person like the others then that is not necessarily true, and then "los gringos" assume that he just wants the privileges that they are being handed too.. The author does not want to be treated differently because of his unsimilar culture and heritage either way, and at this point what he says is futile because people disagree with his statements