Synopsis Of The Story ' Natalia Soto '

Soto is known for his constant use of spanish within all his literature. For example, Soto quotes “Not one day would pass without the butcher or barber…or ambitious children with dollar signs in their eyes waving to El Millonario.” (Soto 28) El Millonario is spanish for the millionaire. Soto uses spanish to emphasize a connection towards poverty and how people of wealth were mostly looked upon when in the barrios. Another example is shown when Soto quotes “They shook hands, raza-style, and jerked their heads at one another in a saludo de vato.” (Soto 53) Saludo de vato is spanish for any type of greeting like wassup or whats hanging. Soto tries to connect to the hispanic culture within his hometown, Fresno, California. Soto also quotes “His father,who was puro Mexicano.”(Soto 2) Puro Mexicano is spanish for pure Mexican. In this quote, Soto uses spanish to accentuate and connect to how hispanic his father was. Overall, Soto foregrounds his hispanic culture and wants people to know that he is

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In the story “Norma” by Sonia Sanchez it describes of Sonia in high school, George Washington high school, The other describes Sonia as a very shy girl and how she would walk with head down all the time, even when she slept. In the story, the other also tells us that Sonia would study every night.

Growing up Soto’s life at home wasn’t ideal and he never had high hopes for it. Soto’s family was Mexican American so he was born into a Chicano culture. Every one of their jobs, even his as a child, was some type of physical labor, “and he worked in the fields as an agricultural laborer and as a low-paid

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Author and editorial writer for the New York Times, Brent Staples, skillfully uses both his educational and racial background to exemplify and reflect on the harrowing times black men faced during the mid-1900’s. Growing up the oldest of 9 in 1951, he pushed himself through primary schooling and against the predications of most, was accepted into college where he earned his B.A, and eventually, a coveted Ph.D. His anthology of literary works focus on politics and cultural issues and popularly include, Parallel Time: Growing up in Black and White, which won the Anisfield Wolf Book Award, An American Love Story, and the piece in mention, Just Walk on By: Black Men and Public Space.

Gary Soto, the second of three children was born to Mexican-American parents who worked hard to provide for their family. Boyle and Jason explain, “...his father and grandfather worked in blue-collar jobs at Sun-Maid Raisin and his mother peeled potatoes at Reddi-Spud.” Jobs such as peeling potatoes did not pay well, and factory jobs were extremely dangerous, but these jobs were the best ways, and often the only way, of earning the money they needed. Despite having steady work it was still a struggle to earn enough to care for the whole family. The family’s struggles increased after Soto’s father was “killed in an industrial accident” when Soto was five years old (Lee).

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“Gary Soto was born in Fresno, California, in April, 1952, to working-class Mexican-American parents. At a young age, he worked in the fields of the San Joaquin Valley. He was not academically motivated as a child, but became interested in poetry during his high school years.” Soto uses his cultural experiences lead him to write about his character how he does and throughout all of his short stories, books, and poems he adds in Spanish words, to show us the kind of environment he grew up in as a Spanish American. Reflecting on the obstacles he had to overcome such as racial discrimination and the ethnic boundaries, to get where he is today.

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A 46 year-old woman named Olga Hidalgo-Gato was arrested for stealing more than $35,000 from a woman she was hired to help. The victim is a 75 year-old woman residing in North Miami Beach. Hidalgo-Gato volunteered to be the woman's home health care aide after discovering that the Department of Children and Families recommended the elder hire someone. The victim's son said that his mother had known Hidalgo-Gato since she was born, and had "loved her like a daughter," (cited by Afshar). Hidalgo-Gato had been writing herself checks and taking out money from ATM accounts belonging to the victim, who did not discover the theft was taking place until realizing her account was overdrawn. Moreover, Hidalgo-Gato was neglecting her duties as a home health aide. She had not been paying the bills, keeping the house clean, or fulfilling her obligations to her client. Hidalgo-Gato had been working as a home health aide for the victim since October 2010.

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Sofia's story was about her first actuation about national holidays in Perú in the school. She was fourteen, in that day she feeling very nervous because it was the first time she was been in front of all school. The teacher selected a group of students to participate in this act. It was consisting in talk about the history of Peru and their process for to be an independent republic, finally, they represented the typical customs of the nation as dances of each region, but it wasn't embarrassing for her. It was embarrassing when the teacher gave the microphone to sofía for to say something related to the country but her mind was in blank after few minutes she only said "Viva Peru" the group longed that the students respond her with another