Uncle Yuki's Home-Personal Narrative

Uncle Yuki was different from the rest of the family. “He was bon vivant. He would invite us all over and would tell us to grab a beer from the fridge. He would ask how we were doing. Anytime we saw him or got invited over it was like an event.” Yuki would invite friends and family over to watch jeopardy. He always watched it before-hand and showed reruns. He answered every question right. Until one day someone asked him how he knew all the answers and he told them. He already watched the episode. He had all his nephews convinced that he knew every answer to every jeopardy episode until one of them was curious enough to ask.
“Once he told me to bite his finger and he would bite mine back just as hard as I bit his. I fell for it. I bit his finger as hard as I could and he did the same. I asked him why in the world he bite my finger that hard and he said what goes around comes around.” His …show more content…
If he didn't need to, he didn't drive. The heater was never used in his car either. He would tell the passengers it was broken. It never was. He didn't want anyone to feel too comfortable. “ I don't want people to bring their coffee and feel warm and at home in my car so I make it uncomfortable so that people stop wanting me to drive,” he once said. In the dead of winter, the heater would not be turned on.
Uncle Yuki fought in the army in the Korean War. He never shared too much about this.
Uncle Yuki was the third of five boys. When he grew up, he worked as a mailman in New York City and eventually, after twenty years, retired. This job ran in the family. This was after Woodrow Wilson allowed segregation concerning blacks and hispanics in the Post Office Department in 1913.
The Santana family came from Puerto Rico to the United States in 1925. A law passed in 1924 greatly limited the number of immigrants allowed to enter the country. People in the United States such as Puerto Ricans were encouraged to go to the