Sanchez-Scott's The Importance Of Family

This is a complex play full of both realistic and fantastic imagery. Much of this complexity is due to the fact that there is many themes in the story. The author includes cleverly concealed musings on family, relationships, Hispanic culture, religion, spirit, poverty, stereotypes, and more all within this meager, fifty-page play. One of these themes is family, especially dominant throughout the book. Although the family in the play knows dysfunction, mistrust, disrespect, and also the violence, the author continues the text with suggestions that how family is important. So forget all the problems this specific family is having, Sanchez-Scott also showing how much positive impact those same people can have on each others lives. To find the author’s apparent views on this topic, Act One must be first examined including an analysis of the interactions between the individual family members and the discovery of any segments within the text revealing Sanchez-Scott’s opinions in the roles of a family. …show more content…
On the page Nine, Hector talks about his grandfather and he says, But you are my legacy, Abuelo’s gift to me, to get me out from this. Oh, Abuelo, Grandfather, you should've left me your courage, and your sweet pacific strength. Author comments on the importance of inheritance, which it takes both of the materials form of rooster and the biological form of his heritage. Even though Hector proving to be in the trouble later in the story. he recognizing this importance here. Chata echoes this sentiment when she reminisces about her grandmother and the things her grandmother