Zoot Suit

Our play uses variety of styles, mainly Brecht’s epic theatre as our play depicts political message. Our play is structured as montage as it shows different stages of George’s life in a non-chronological order, we effectively did this

In the film created by Salvador Carrasco, he tells us the story of the oppressed Aztecs by the Spanish conquistadors. The film leads to a social and religious understanding by two of the main characters Topiltzin (a native Aztec) and Fray Diego, (a friar in Catholicism). Together, both characters form a bond and that lets for the two different cultures to get together for the viewers to understand that these cultures are more in tune than what they seem. Carrasco, divides his movie into two parts, setting the tone for the mirroring of scenes, duality, and parallelism that takes place during the course of the movie. The director intends for his viewers to draw important connections from these elements that bring them to a greater understanding of social culture, religion, and faith. In one of the final scenes leading up the end of the movie, Fray Diego confronts Topiltzin at the church. At this point that the viewer sees a behavior change in Fray Diego's eyes. Fray Diego knows Topiltzin's feelings toward religion, indicating the large strides that he has made over the years in

Silko wants to educate people, on the difference between reading a story in a book and hearing someone telling that same story. “Oral narrative became the medium in which the complexes of Pueblo

In Act 1, scene 2, Zoot suit touches the common theme of cultural discrimination showing how only Mexican-Americans were arrested by Lt. Edwards and Sergeant Smith at the barrio dance during the mass arrest. This scene is significant as it clearly shows how Sergeant Smith, an Anglo officer, lets Swabbie and her girlfriend leave from the scene of arrest without any interrogation because they are American and not Mexican-American. This scene is clearly evident of the fact how these Mexican-Americans were treated based on their cultural preference as they were wearing Zoot suit at the dance party which was seen as an insult by the people of Anglo culture. The arrest of these Mexican-Americans by the Anglo officers shows the harsh treatment that

The story of Rosa and Maya are being played out in real life within the Mexican immigrant workers. The authenticity with which the story is told is astounding, showing a deep respect for those who in search of a way to make an honest living, subject themselves to countless humiliations and are relegated to live outside the margins of mainstream America. Every worker has an equal right to unionize and fight against the unfair conditions at work (Thesis Statement).

A sharp contrast is seen between the narration style of chapter 8 and 9 of Don Quixote. The seemingly flowing tale of Quixote and Basque’s great battle is abruptly halted, and then after much explanation regarding the finding and composition of the remainder, is the tale finally allowed to unfold.

She uses this type of evidence to describe how violent and scary the Mexican Revolution was to her. Her intended audience was toward other people who were living during the revolution. She also wanted people who weren't alive during the event to hear about it. Campobello uses fear, violent, and dark diction to show it was such a horrible

On December 1s, 2016 at 8:00pm our group went to a school play held here in San Francisco State University at the McKenna Theatre. The play is called “Sofa Sin Casa” which translates to a couch with no home. The play was roughly two hours with one brief intermission, mixed with dance choreography and singing.  The play features a red couch in San Francisco, “The new Silicon Valley”, moving from place to place and giving people a place to rest and sleep.  Although the red couch is inanimate, it is brought to life by an actress wearing a coat made of a similar fabric that the couch has. The actress represents the couch and tells us her story as well as the many stories of San Francisco residents from the lower and middle class, many of which have had to face the eviction squad. When a local reporter grows fond of the couch, she is determined to keep it for herself, sending her on a trip around San Francisco trying to find it. Through the couch we hear the stories of college students, a young mother, a family, an evictor, and the reporter, all of which struggle to live comfortably within the confines of the Golden City.

The storyteller before the play clarifies what the Theater Society of Aztlan is about. The storyteller is costumed as the Aztec sun god in an Aztec elevated structure sanctuary. The range around the sun god was the old Aztec schedule. It demonstrates that the Aztlans have a decent learning about their past. They are pleased that they are from the territory that the Aztecs started from. The play

The movie “ La otra Conquista ” is mainly focused on the arrival of the Spaniards to Mexico and its aftermaths, told from the perspective of the indigenous Aztec people in the 1520s. Since the beginning, we can see how the Spaniards go to America to teach their customs and traditions. This film takes place in Tenochtitlan, on the Aztec capital, in which once the Spaniards colonized it, they started a new fight, not only political but also religious. They reached to dominate, and they went against to what the Aztecs had established, such as their beliefs, myths, legends and sacrifices. “ La otra Conquista ” reflect in many ways the conquest of Mexico and its aftermath.

The play is titled Zoot Suit because the clothing transcends the play. It could either represent historic Chicano style or criminal garb. The zoot suit comes to represent the struggle of Mexican-Americans to be accepted into American culture. This play shines light on that struggle, not just a single murder case, but the broader cultural impact that the zoot suit had.

Chicano Theatre is a relatively young genre of theatre in comparison to the traditional theatre that date back centuries. It was in the 1960’s that the term Chicano became prevalent in the United States. Chicano is used only of Mexican Americans, not of Mexicans living in Mexico. It was originally an informal term in English (as in Spanish), and the spelling of the first recorded instance in an American publication followed the Spanish custom of lowercasing nouns of national or ethnic origin (The Free Dictionary 2003). The transition of the meaning Chicano has varied throughout the decades, but it still holds its politically charged roots strong.

I am reviewing the University of Colorado’s performance of Karen Zacaria’s play, Legacy of Light, directed by Jennifer Hubbard. I will be focusing on the shifts between time periods and how these convey the overall message of the play, along with analyzing the acting for their overall effect on the performance. The production was complex but I will explore these specific points more closely to understand the overall meaning.

Finally, I can conclude that having a history written by someone else, especially by ones conquerors is difficult. Now only many elements will be left aside, but much truth will not be told. In this paper, I tried to explain this theory may not always apply to history. Although the Spanish were conquering, killing, stealing and raping, there were good people with clear purposes. The purpose of bring forward the facts of what happened in the dark era of today’s Latin America. While Diaz describe almost everything he saw and heard from the natives while in the city of Tenochtitlan, while Leon judges many of the actions of the Spanish and explains the spirituality of the Incas and while Casas portrays the pure and genuine character of the native

In the play Zoot Suit, it takes place in Los Angeles during World War II and focuses on the Mexican Americans of the time. It all starts out with Henry Reyna and his 38th Street Gang were in a brawl with their rivalry, the Downey gang. After their brawl, Henry and his gang decided to go to Sleepy Lagoon, which is a reservoir where the young crowd went to hang out and socialize with their friends. They had gone to the Williams’ Ranch where they had heard noise and mistook that noise for a party, but instead it was the Downey gang harassing the people at the ranch. Without realizing, one of the members of the Williams’ Ranch, Jose Williams, had passed away that night