Loteriaia Zambrano Summary

In the Chicano community, children are an integral part of how the community can be developed due to the fact that they’re still learning things while young. For this reason, works created by Chicanos are especially important because children and young people can see themselves in the different modes of media. A book that helps this endeavor is Loteria by Mario Alberto Zambrano, where a young girl tells the story of her family’s demise using a deck of loteria cards. This book can be considered contemporary and modern due to Zambrano writing it in 2013, which allows young Chicanos to relate to the protagonist’s plight. Moreover, Loteria is able to show concepts that assist in supporting the student learning outcomes with the similarities and …show more content…
By showing displacement, Zambrano was able to support a student learning outcome since this theme is most common in many Chicano works. Furthermore, it adds more to the students understanding of the social background of these stories since they can see how much of an impact displacement has on people. When showing the prejudice in the community towards people who can’t speak proper Spanish, readers are able to see how there’s a hidden division within the community. This assists in supporting a student learning object since students can now identify a theme that is prevalent in many other Chicano works. It also leads to a better social understanding of the Chicano community and the works that include this theme. The differences that Zambrano’s story shows are also very prevalent in the Chicano community. These concepts of colorism and alcoholism are present in the community in an underlying way due to the culture of the community. These concepts add more support to the student learning objectives due to them adding more social understanding to the works. This leads to a better understanding of the Chicano community itself since they may be able to identify these concepts in real life situations and