My personal favorite
chapter from The House on Mango Street is “Louie, His Cousin, And His Other
Cousin”. This story stands out to me because it’s a very relatable type of
story/easy to understand. We already knew he stole a car before it was stated.
The important theme in this story is innocence.
The
kids wave as he gets arrested and taken away, they have yet to learn about the
real bad things in life. The language is at its best when Louis’s cousin
realizes he’s been caught and tries to get away and crash the car: “Marin
screamed and we ran down the block where the cop car’s siren spun a dizzy blue.
The
nose of that yellow Cadillac was all pleated like an alligator’s…”
The person who had a big influence on me as a child was
my then best friend, Abbie. We were young and I thought she was a great person
but I was very naïve. She tried to teach me to be dumb because to her being
smart “wasn’t very cute” (let’s just take the time to point out, some girls are
very crazy in their way of thinking) and she believed having fun was doing
slightly illegal things. It made me change my own
way of thinking to be everything different than her. She enjoyed sneaking off
her with her mom’s alcohol, failing school, and sneaking out at one in the
morning.
I enjoyed being an innocent naive kid.
I agree with the chapter! And the person who influenced me was also my best friend.
ReplyDeleteI thought the same paragraph was the best writing in this chapter.
ReplyDeleteRelatable? I would love to hear that story. I'm glad you didn't take Abbie's advice.
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