Motorcycle Ride On The Sea Of Tranquility Analysis

Living up to the Expectations In the novel Motorcycle Ride on the Sea of Tranquility, by Patricia Santana the Sahagun sisters and brothers experience similar events, but are obliged to treat them differently based on the ideals that they are both expected to live to. In the story the boys and the girls experience double standards in their household and Mexican culture, they are each expected to act a certain way. They both deal with love in their lives but have to treat them differently, the girls have to sneak around while they boy do not. The girls also face little no privacy as shown by the location of their room while the boys have all the privacy they desire. The siblings also have different experiences sexually, the boys swear that it’s …show more content…
Yolanda says, “our parents were strict and we weren’t allowed not even poor Carolina who was already twenty-to go out on dates with guys” (34). This shows the double standards the Sahagun sisters experience, and even the oldest daughter cannot date, unlike their brothers who are allowed and encouraged to date at any age. This prompts Yolanda and her sisters to start sneaking around with their lovers because they are not allowed to be around boys. The oldest out of the girls; Carolina, hopes to break the idea that they are not allowed to date with her boyfriend …show more content…
The boys have their own private area, unlike the girls. “The fact remained that they boys’ room was a private domain by virtue of its geographical placement and relation to the rest of the home and seemed to me a symbol of freedom and independence” (38). Yoli explains that the boys room stood outside their house and even thought it was only attached by a piece of wall it was still like their own little world. No one bothered the boys and no bathroom came in disturbance unlike the girls’ room, therefore the boys had all the privacy. Unlike, the boys’ room, the girls’ room came in between the hallway of the only bathroom in the Sahagun household, which represents the lack of privacy the sisters experience. Our bedroom-the girls’ room-served not only as sleeping quarters for us five sisters, as a conference room for the necessary private talks about boys and French kissing and girls whose reputations were lost for going all the way, but it also served as the hallway to the only bathroom in the Sahagun estate. The girls’ room: Grand Central Station (36). The placement in the Sahagun sisters’ room represents the lack of privacy the girls experience in the household. Yolanda also explains that whenever they had a secret conversation, typically about boys they had to put it on hold whenever a family member walked in to use the restroom and they had to go