[精品]Journal 2 Dr. Sarah E. King.pdf

Journal 2 When I Was Puerto Rican
Old to New
In the beginning of the story, I noticed how Esmeralda was very descriptive of her
home, connecting guavas to her culture, the open clean air, the poor living conditions,
etc…. Towards the end of her story, I noticed how once again she describes her new
home, Brooklyn, as loud, dirty, unsafe, etc…. By describing both settings, she gives me
as a reader a deeper understanding of her yearn for her home and how she felt when
she had to make such drastic changes in her life. The transformation that occurred to
her was obviously one that she did not desire, and this idea was reinforced as she
continued to describe her difficulties with the language, with her mother, and with her
social life. Moreover, I also question myself why I notice how the nicknames are not
used as much as they were in the beginning. Her relationship with her father seemed to
be extremely biased and I was surprised at the ing from her mother,
encouraging her to continue speaking to her father although he remarried and started a
new life that did not include her in it. Her father continued to respond to her letters
though, so it’s not as if he got pletely out of his life. I suspected that if anything
she would continue talking to him, but little by little he faded from the story and I never
found out what happened to him in the end.