Para Teresa by Ines Hernandez-Avila is a poem about a few 6th grade girls in the bathroom talking about being a teacher’s pet, and trying to rebel. Ines Hernandez talks about how after all those years, the student getting bullied considers the bully a sister, and after standing up to her she’s over it. It’s described in the poem why the student tries so hard in school, and what she gets out of it. The poem takes place in 1947 at an elementary school called the Alamo, I’m assuming it’s mixed with Mexicans and Whites. The minority thinks they have to act a certain way and there is one student who stands up for herself and tries really hard in school. The rest of them don’t like that and they bully her in the bathroom until she stands up
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Everything matches up and leads into each other besides the ending when the author calls the bully her sister. The poem is well plotted, and has a good introduction into getting onto the real topic of racism and stereotypes. “That day... which-had-to-be-named Elementary” (207). Let’s you know that there is an already influential white influence on the school. That the influence bothers, and influences work ethic on the minorities, makes them rebel, and feel unfairly treated because of their skin color. I think that since that’s the basic point of this whole poem, the author did a great job of sliding into the topic fairly early. Telling at the introduction that the poem is dedicated towards the bully, Teresa, and explaining the situation of the school and setting. Everything in sense of setting up and having the poem be in order was done greatly. The style of Para Teresa was done well in the fact that she stayed in the tone of the first person story teller. The author did a great job of getting her point across in form of a poem. Mixing Spanish and English together was a bit confusing but she didn’t mix the two too much. It showed the time and style of life when the poem took place correctly, I didn’t find anything that stood out as grammatically or incorrect at
Everything matches up and leads into each other besides the ending when the author calls the bully her sister. The poem is well plotted, and has a good introduction into getting onto the real topic of racism and stereotypes. “That day... which-had-to-be-named Elementary” (207). Let’s you know that there is an already influential white influence on the school. That the influence bothers, and influences work ethic on the minorities, makes them rebel, and feel unfairly treated because of their skin color. I think that since that’s the basic point of this whole poem, the author did a great job of sliding into the topic fairly early. Telling at the introduction that the poem is dedicated towards the bully, Teresa, and explaining the situation of the school and setting. Everything in sense of setting up and having the poem be in order was done greatly. The style of Para Teresa was done well in the fact that she stayed in the tone of the first person story teller. The author did a great job of getting her point across in form of a poem. Mixing Spanish and English together was a bit confusing but she didn’t mix the two too much. It showed the time and style of life when the poem took place correctly, I didn’t find anything that stood out as grammatically or incorrect at