Character Analysis: Zoot Suit

Carlos is the most honest person in the village everyone likes that about him and everyone can trust him with anything like personal problems, village problems, if they need resources or food or anything like that.He is also honest with things like his

Henry is the type of character that we know in many of the books we read. Constantly he is thinking that he is

Zoot Suit by Luis Valdez explains the racially charged trial of Sleepy Lagoon in 1942 in which the court of California charges a group of Chicanos with the murder of another Mexican-American man. For Chicanos, 1940 was an era of discrimination so the trials were unfairly biased against them. To fight against this discrimination, many Chicanos wore an exaggerated suit, referred to as a zoot suit, that included a long, loose jacket with padded shoulders and high waisted trousers. This choice of wardrobe earned the Chicanos a name of “zoot suiters”. Ethnic identity is an important role in this play because the men on trial were accused of murder for their cultural background, choice of clothing and biased media influence rather than evidence.

They are Mexican-American. Their equality rights do not accept in America society. They and their family always spend the life by examining of American government. Henry Reyna, El Pachuco, the Navy during the World War II. He is the young Mexican-American generation. He lives in the South Central Los Angeles, California. They are a mythical figure, a rebellious, street-smart, young Chicano. They make up their hair style. He dresses a long jacket, a baggy trousers, and a lengthy watch chain. He and his people dance with their girlfriends. They wear the zoot suit, the big pride of Mexican-American about the Mexican male, they make the belief to the rebellious generation for the equality rights struggling. Henry and his gang are the antagonist characters to serve the holistic of the world. He kills the murder, help the media, and fed their headline by the police (Scene 1, Act 5, page). Luis Valdez success to create the danger of the character, El Pachuco is in to Henry and the opposite. The riots break out in the streets. the zoot suiters are targeted, the suspects stripped by sailors and marines based on the racism, the discrimination profile. The author is successful to describe the press, the media communication. The laws use the name to disguise discriminate. They create the dangerous situation for their ruse. Their

As the scene progresses, Sancho demonstrates the Farmworker’s capabilities and strong work ethics the scene develops into a political parody. Sancho explains this particular model is designed to go on strike. The Farmworker rebels against society in this scene and Miss Jimenez quickly moves onto the next model in fear this outspoken Farmworker would cause a rebellion instead of shedding positively on her (and the Reagan administration’s) view of the ideal Mexican. The play continues with Johnny Pachuco, who is the stereotypical Mexican gangster. He is the type that uses weapons and steals from people. He has trouble with the law, gets arrested, and is

In the San Fernando Valley during the summer of 1962, Scotty Smalls is the new boy in the neighborhood seeking desperately to fit in. He would be welcomed on the local sandlot baseball team that practices every day which only has eight players. Smalls however can't play baseball on his first visit to the sandlot he finds himself in the outfield with a fly ball descending toward him which bounces off his glove causing the other boys except “Benny the jet” Rodriguez the team's leader to burst out laughing Smalls is humiliated and leaves. Smalls asks his Step-Father to teach him how to play, and while his Step- Father agrees Smalls cannot catch or throw the ball. Benny soon teaches him what he needs to know, and with Benny's support he gets a place on the team. Meanwhile behind the wall

The Zoot Suit play, Luis Valdez notices the in-depth look picture into the cultural struggling and the young generation by El Pachuco and his people. They are Mexican-American. Their equality rights do not accept in America society. They and their family always spend the life by examining of American government. Henry Reyna, El Pachuco, the Navy during the World War II. He is the young Mexican-American generation. He lives in the South Central Los Angeles, California. They are a mythical figure, a rebellious, street-smart, young Chicano. They make up their hair style. He dresses a long jacket, a baggy trousers, and a lengthy watch chain. He and his people dance with their girlfriends. They wear the zoot suit, the big pride of Mexican-American

              The Chicano way was the way it was during the 1940s in the city of Los Angeles. The title of my book is “Zoot Suit and Other Plays” written by Luis Valdez. This story takes place on the year 1942 in the city of Los Angeles, California. The way the story is that the main character of the story by the name of Henry Reyna, the ringleader of the 38th street gang, is unjustly charged for the Sleepy Lagoon murder of a man  and is sentenced to life in prison. He wasn’t the only one charged a few of his gang members were charged as well. Their lawyer George Shearer and a news reporter Alice Bloomfield worked for several months to get them out and after many protests and petitions the 38th street gang was released for lack of evidence to hold then guilty. The main character Henry Reyna is very prideful, brings a big influence to his people, and very optimistic. .

Ignacio is the antagonist because he is opposed to the protagonist which is the Father. Ignacio will be considered the Flat character because he does not change at all throughout the

Henry The biggest of the littluns. He is made the object of a mean-spirited prank by

Beginning with basically the first scene, Henry shows many signs of his id controlling him. He yells at his daughter, and seems to have a super-ego scene where he feels sorry for her, but he's simply doing it out of obligation. He is very negative and rude and only cares about himself. It's found out later that the court case he won, he did it unfairly. He's deep into an affair. He is begging for a reality check.

When Carlos was a child his mother Sofia left leaving his grandfather and Dad to raise him. He was a trouble child he got suspended from school from fights. Carlos father Xenon took him to the boxing gym so he could stay out of trouble. But Carlos was to young and the owner wouldn’t let him stay. So Xenon and the owner mad a bet, that if Carlos could spar the owner’s grandson then he would be able to go boxing gym. Carlos did win and he stayed out of trouble.

The character who represents men is Esteban Trueba. After the love of his life dies, Esteban moves to a village where he grew up. He begins to enrich the city and becomes the dictator. Throughout his time as a Dictator, Esteban rapes young women and keeps some as his maids. He does this for the feeling of empowerment. All the civilians of the village are afraid of Esteban. He holds grudges and is violent towards the people who defy him. Although Esteban and Clara have children, it does not stop him from being violent. They have one girl named Blanca and two boys. Besides Clara’s three generations in the book, there is Pedro Garcia’s generation. Pedro Garcia is a trustful peasant of Esteban also called Patron. The Pedro family is compliant with Esteban. Even though Pedro Segundo son of Pedro Garcia, remains faithful to Esteban. When Esteban

The reason behind that is maybe that he did not grow in a family like the others. Based on that he becomes a shepherd to live because his parents were not beside him. There was something missing in his childhood that impact his personality, something like feeling and emotions. During the period in Spain, the people were suffering from poorness and the hard life it was just the beginning of the Spanish occupation of the New World. The only way to get the wealth and power was to be conquistador, to be more specific an evil conquistador because that will be more benefit and from here the story begin. According to these facts and his childhood Francisco Pizarro become who he was and the early life he lived affected his achievements later. (The Most Evil Men In History - Francisco

Natalie Sterling, a seventeen year old senior at Ross Academy had just won class president and beat her opponent Mike Domski. Mike was the kind of guy that Natalie and her best friend Autumn tried to stay away from. The girls at Ross Academy were known as demeaning and “boy crazy.” One day, during the pep rally a bunch of freshman dressed in trampy clothing and started to dance inappropriately. The leader’s name was Spencer a girl Natalie used to babysit for. The flirty freshman called themselves “Prostitutes” or Ross Academy prostitutes. Not only was Natalie embarrassed and angry by Spencers action but, she was disappointed. When the principal and Ms. Bee the student council head were talking to the girls punishments Natalie barged in. Natalie explained how she wanted to have a lock-in for all the girls in trouble and any others from school who wanted to come, about feminism and women's rights. Ms. Bee and Natalie agreed that it would be a good idea for