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juliaa
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RE: Quiara’s mother tells her, &...
I think she meant that the oral history was destined to "die with Abuela" but if Quiara wrote it down, the history would be preserved. Future generations of Perezes and Sanchezes and even Hudeses could read it and understand from whence they came.
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joannej
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I had a terrible time in reading Hudes memoir, and the only reason I plodded through was because of its good reviews, especially the star awarded by Kirkus Reviews. I am usually a reader who shuns first-person point of view books; however, memoir is a genre that stands apart from this preference. The book was a difficult book for me to read because of all the religious and Spanish words that I had to google because Hudes did not give definitions. I grumbled and grumbled over this omission until I experienced an epiphany and it changed my entire understanding of her "broken language." Quiara Alegria Hudes brilliantly showed me how immigrants to America feel trying to assimilate to a different language and culture while holding on to their native language and culture. My Broken Language deserved that Kirkus star.
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caroln
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RE: What Quiara sees and hears on the ...
As like Maggie and others, after 20 years of marriage, I found myself a divorced/single mother with two young girls in 1985. As a stay at home mother, I was forced back into the workforce at the bottom of the wage schedule. I was struggling, I was always just one step away from the bill collectors or the bank's repossessing my modest little home, but I never once thought of welfare. I just looked for another part time job to keep some kind food on my table for the last few weeks of the month. Touched by AIDS, deeply so. One of my first work assignments was supporting one of our principals who was reassigned to the district office due to AIDS. I watched this young well - educated man over the next few years as he fought for his life as a part of SF experimental study using high risk medicines. What courage this man displayed, always positive as he continued his lifelong working to improve education for children. I often found myself using him as my prime example for "keeping on trucking."
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gaylamath
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I was bullied as a teenager because I had psoriasis. It was really bad and really noticeable and other girls my age were horrible to me because of it. I was kind of a loner which made it even worse. The only good thing I can say about moving to Texas (mentioned in another question) is that the people I met were much nicer and more gracious to me and didn't pick on me because of it.
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kathleenk
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RE: Do you agree that non-white citizens...
Yes, definitely. I was just watching a documentary recently where the white mother of the white woman who was killed in Charlottesville during a BLM protest was talking about white privilege. She explained that she grew up very poor and in a trailer park so she didn't think white privilege existed. Since her daughter died, she travels and talks to parents of slain black individuals (many at the hands of white police) and she sees how many had little to no publicity when their children died, while she was inundated with media coverage. So now she uses her platform to talk about white privilege, which I really admire.
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poniesnpearls
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RE: Quiana's relationships with her...
Her relationship to her cousins were such an important part of her story. Losing family is always difficult. Her focus on achieving her goals and the support of her mother helped her through.
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magra
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RE: Spanish words and phonetic spellings...
Besides the idea of her being between two cultures I saw an invitation to learn more about another language and culture. It helped to draw me into another world.
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