Summary
From what I read people believe that Nasar already knew that they were going to go after him and felt as if he could handle the twins. And others did not think that the twins were actually serious. Everyone in that town was a bystander for letting that happen because they all knew it was wrong and all barely tried to help stop and end this. In this other half of the book, it talks about Nasar past lovers like Maria Alejandra and Flora. To me this is sort of ironic because it makes it seems like he had a lot of lovers and as to why is was so bad that he took the twins' sister virginity. However, throughout the whole town and their opinions it seemed as if they had positive views on him and believed he was a good guy. And as for the twins who killed Nasar, people did not take them seriously because they believed that the were drunk. The people pf the town seem to have been affected greatly by Nasar's death even though they did not try top stop it.
Quote: "He even took care to brush off the dirt that was stuck to his guts" (Marquez120)
In this quote on the last page of the book, to me it shows just much pride Nasar had because instead of panicking about his death he was calm and said his last words. Its as if his death was so much drama and problems for others than it was to him .
Tuesday, June 21, 2011
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Chronicle Of A Death Foretold (1- 50)
Summary
Something tragic has happened to a man named , Santuago Nasar was killed by twin brothers Pedro and Pablo Vicario because they had found out their sister, Pura was not a virgin when she was about to get married. And Nasar was the man to take her virginity. The major issue with this was the fact that everyone in the town knew minus a few people about his death yet, no one told him about it. A town of people could all know that someone is killed yet, allow it to still happen. They are now on trail and still the twins find nothing wrong with what they did. In fact because no one in the town said anything about this and they all new it seems are if none of them had a problem with this happening.
Quote: "Only Pura Vicario knew what she did during the next two hours, and she went to her grave with her secret" (Marquez 46).
Reaction:
This was a huge part of the story and is what Nasar is killed in the first place. The only reason she told her family who the man was that she lost her virginity to was because they were physically hurting her. Of course she wanted this pain to all stop so, without thinking she told them who it was. And if she had refused Nasar could have been still alive. This is the main person who has started all these problems and has brought Nasar to death .
Something tragic has happened to a man named , Santuago Nasar was killed by twin brothers Pedro and Pablo Vicario because they had found out their sister, Pura was not a virgin when she was about to get married. And Nasar was the man to take her virginity. The major issue with this was the fact that everyone in the town knew minus a few people about his death yet, no one told him about it. A town of people could all know that someone is killed yet, allow it to still happen. They are now on trail and still the twins find nothing wrong with what they did. In fact because no one in the town said anything about this and they all new it seems are if none of them had a problem with this happening.
Quote: "Only Pura Vicario knew what she did during the next two hours, and she went to her grave with her secret" (Marquez 46).
Reaction:
This was a huge part of the story and is what Nasar is killed in the first place. The only reason she told her family who the man was that she lost her virginity to was because they were physically hurting her. Of course she wanted this pain to all stop so, without thinking she told them who it was. And if she had refused Nasar could have been still alive. This is the main person who has started all these problems and has brought Nasar to death .
Monday, April 25, 2011
The Rise And Fall Of The American Teenager (202 - 303)
Summary:
Thomas talks about how teens had access to adult jobs and responsibilities. Explains how movies had a lot to do with the new dating scene that started to take place in the early 1930s but, they believe the cause to this was music and movies. They said that caused it because most movies and music were about relationships and music and movies at that time and to me from experience is a huge part a teens life. This is very similar to how things are now because I personally feel like teens all watch movies and listening to music and mostly all of them being about relationships. This does have a huge impact on what teenagers do with their life then and now. What I found interesting that ob of the chapters had talked about was how cruel some teenagers were. They brought up a Scottsboro court case where African American male teenagers were being accused for something they did not do by other young teenagers. Thomas used this as an example of "Dead End Kids" . The chapters also talk about how kids are slowly going to school more and more. They also talk about the use of drug in teenagers such a marijuana in the 1970s which lead many teenagers into a bad path.
Quote: "Young people are here and, as always, ready to make history. Let's help them. We were young once too" (Hine 304)
Reaction: This to me was the perfect way to end the book in my opinion. To me it is a great ending because throughout the whole book Thomas is talking about the different history of teenagers through years and years seen though adults eyes. And in the end by saying this its saying that the teenagers are the ones who make history and rather then stop them adults should help them considering the fact that they were once teens. This ending of the book really caught my eye and I thought it was a well way to end the teenage history.
Thomas talks about how teens had access to adult jobs and responsibilities. Explains how movies had a lot to do with the new dating scene that started to take place in the early 1930s but, they believe the cause to this was music and movies. They said that caused it because most movies and music were about relationships and music and movies at that time and to me from experience is a huge part a teens life. This is very similar to how things are now because I personally feel like teens all watch movies and listening to music and mostly all of them being about relationships. This does have a huge impact on what teenagers do with their life then and now. What I found interesting that ob of the chapters had talked about was how cruel some teenagers were. They brought up a Scottsboro court case where African American male teenagers were being accused for something they did not do by other young teenagers. Thomas used this as an example of "Dead End Kids" . The chapters also talk about how kids are slowly going to school more and more. They also talk about the use of drug in teenagers such a marijuana in the 1970s which lead many teenagers into a bad path.
Quote: "Young people are here and, as always, ready to make history. Let's help them. We were young once too" (Hine 304)
Reaction: This to me was the perfect way to end the book in my opinion. To me it is a great ending because throughout the whole book Thomas is talking about the different history of teenagers through years and years seen though adults eyes. And in the end by saying this its saying that the teenagers are the ones who make history and rather then stop them adults should help them considering the fact that they were once teens. This ending of the book really caught my eye and I thought it was a well way to end the teenage history.
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
The Rise And Fall Of The American Teenager (150 - 202)
Summary
As I said in previously, back then high school was not seen as important and that most teenagers went to work. Mostly if the teenagers did go to school it would be the woman because they needed school to become teachers in the future. And the boys would usually stay with their fathers to go work for the rest of the family. High school and college were not exactly order the way it is today. Later on when the teenagers did have to go to school the classes that the girls had to take were different from what the boys had to take. Later on in the next chapter that is called " Dancing Daughters" talks more so how more so moderate teens are too sexual active and how they get some of these influences from the movies that come out that talk about sex and relationships with others. This all comes back to these children growing up way to fast and it exactly the reason as to why they are they way they are.
Quote: "Yet, thinking about the young almost as a separate species segregates adolescents and sets them up as a target for social engineering " ( Hine 176)
Reaction: When Hine says this I could understand that teenagers are different from younger kids and adults but the fact that there is some type of separation between the age difference to me I find crazy. Yet, I understand one is more likely to be around their on age groups. However, the truth is that sadly teeangers are also judged just because they are a teenager. They are automatically are suppose to be up to something mad, its as if parents and other adults were not teenagers once. Or as if they already expect them to make their younger "stupid" mistakes because of their age.
As I said in previously, back then high school was not seen as important and that most teenagers went to work. Mostly if the teenagers did go to school it would be the woman because they needed school to become teachers in the future. And the boys would usually stay with their fathers to go work for the rest of the family. High school and college were not exactly order the way it is today. Later on when the teenagers did have to go to school the classes that the girls had to take were different from what the boys had to take. Later on in the next chapter that is called " Dancing Daughters" talks more so how more so moderate teens are too sexual active and how they get some of these influences from the movies that come out that talk about sex and relationships with others. This all comes back to these children growing up way to fast and it exactly the reason as to why they are they way they are.
Quote: "Yet, thinking about the young almost as a separate species segregates adolescents and sets them up as a target for social engineering " ( Hine 176)
Reaction: When Hine says this I could understand that teenagers are different from younger kids and adults but the fact that there is some type of separation between the age difference to me I find crazy. Yet, I understand one is more likely to be around their on age groups. However, the truth is that sadly teeangers are also judged just because they are a teenager. They are automatically are suppose to be up to something mad, its as if parents and other adults were not teenagers once. Or as if they already expect them to make their younger "stupid" mistakes because of their age.
The Rise And Fall Of The American Teenager (109 - 150)
Summmary
In what I've read the other talks about how the parents are depending on the children. Mostly, it talks about how the parents are depending on their kids financially whether it be with having to work extra to keep their families from suffering and barely making it or it being the main provider in the family because the parents are too wake to do so. This in the end are making teens grow up way too fast as to having to work to support the rest of their family at such a young age. And the book also talks about how some teens had to work because some jobs for example would not give a man a chance at working unless they had a son too take lady take their place or even sometimes they would higher a younger teen before they would a older adult. Back then schooling was not seen as important for teenagers, it was more of a second choice to working opposed to being the first how it is now.
Quote: "Nevertheless, some qualities of these young people of the frontier-their love of mobility, their belif that they were entitled to have a good time, their sudden shifts from dependence to maturity and back-became part of that creature we know as a teenager" (Hine 137)
Reaction: As soon as I read this , I soon thought that this was the exactly true about teens. They were not at all fully adults nor was they kids but, to me they are a mixture of both. They are right in between going back and forth between the two. They are complicated for this very reason, because some things they do and thnk are similar to adults however, its sometimes like a child too. They go back and fourth between the two.
In what I've read the other talks about how the parents are depending on the children. Mostly, it talks about how the parents are depending on their kids financially whether it be with having to work extra to keep their families from suffering and barely making it or it being the main provider in the family because the parents are too wake to do so. This in the end are making teens grow up way too fast as to having to work to support the rest of their family at such a young age. And the book also talks about how some teens had to work because some jobs for example would not give a man a chance at working unless they had a son too take lady take their place or even sometimes they would higher a younger teen before they would a older adult. Back then schooling was not seen as important for teenagers, it was more of a second choice to working opposed to being the first how it is now.
Quote: "Nevertheless, some qualities of these young people of the frontier-their love of mobility, their belif that they were entitled to have a good time, their sudden shifts from dependence to maturity and back-became part of that creature we know as a teenager" (Hine 137)
Reaction: As soon as I read this , I soon thought that this was the exactly true about teens. They were not at all fully adults nor was they kids but, to me they are a mixture of both. They are right in between going back and forth between the two. They are complicated for this very reason, because some things they do and thnk are similar to adults however, its sometimes like a child too. They go back and fourth between the two.
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
The Rise And Fall Of The American Teenager (54 - 108)
Summary
In the next following chapters, I read about how teenagers had some family values and I also read about their independence. Before, in different places back then people used to honor family values more often. They used to do whatever they could to help suppose their families. Teenagers also did for their country and themselves. At young ages as of 12 boys were fighting in the war . Some teenagers had to leave their homes and go out in becoming an apprentice which meant that they were entering a stranger's home to do work for them and be able to learn not only in education but, kind of like a new life. They did this to sort of honor their parents. As an apprentice they had to do whatever the master wanted them to. When I read about these young people getting independence, they talked about the Lowell mills factories and then and there a made a connection to what I had previously learned in history class earlier this year. The factories were the first time women got the chance to work and many of these women where teenage girls. Them being able to work in factories helped their families out where they finally got the chance to do something else out of their homes.
Quote: " the beginning of their teens was the first moment that they fully understood the meaning of their situation",( Hines 98).
Reaction:
Though Thomas Hines was referring to the slaves when he said this when I first thought about this it clicked in my head how true this was. It reminded me of the idea of " coming of age moments" and how young children when they grow up slowly face the reality of the what the world is like.The reason as to why I believe being a teenager is such a difficult part of life is supply because it's when a child finally gets to see what is really going on and is having a hard time to taking it in. Though Thomas says that the idea of being a "teen" was made up by society, I still think that this part of life is a difficult step into a human - being becoming an adult .
In the next following chapters, I read about how teenagers had some family values and I also read about their independence. Before, in different places back then people used to honor family values more often. They used to do whatever they could to help suppose their families. Teenagers also did for their country and themselves. At young ages as of 12 boys were fighting in the war . Some teenagers had to leave their homes and go out in becoming an apprentice which meant that they were entering a stranger's home to do work for them and be able to learn not only in education but, kind of like a new life. They did this to sort of honor their parents. As an apprentice they had to do whatever the master wanted them to. When I read about these young people getting independence, they talked about the Lowell mills factories and then and there a made a connection to what I had previously learned in history class earlier this year. The factories were the first time women got the chance to work and many of these women where teenage girls. Them being able to work in factories helped their families out where they finally got the chance to do something else out of their homes.
Quote: " the beginning of their teens was the first moment that they fully understood the meaning of their situation",( Hines 98).
Reaction:
Though Thomas Hines was referring to the slaves when he said this when I first thought about this it clicked in my head how true this was. It reminded me of the idea of " coming of age moments" and how young children when they grow up slowly face the reality of the what the world is like.The reason as to why I believe being a teenager is such a difficult part of life is supply because it's when a child finally gets to see what is really going on and is having a hard time to taking it in. Though Thomas says that the idea of being a "teen" was made up by society, I still think that this part of life is a difficult step into a human - being becoming an adult .
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
The Rise And Fall Of The American Teenager (1-54)
Summary
So far from what I read in The Rise And Fall Of The American Teenager by Thomas Hine , the author is trying to explain and find out himself as to why teenagers are the way they are and go through what they go through. In the chapters I read, Thomas describes adolescence first as something that everyone has to go through and can not be changed as a part of growing up. However, later he describes it using some of the very different ways certain societies practice a time where teenager or a child reaches social or physical maturity that allows them to be ready for the world they would have to face as an adult. However, Thomas also says that the idea of a "teenager" was made up by society. At the beginning Thomas also describes teenagers as being such a mystery as to what they think and do because of their crazy behaviors. As when he talks about teenagers getting pregnant and killing their new born and also how he talks about kids being in gangs and killing others. From what I've read so far Thomas is giving different reasons in explanations as to what a teenager is , why they act the way they do and what causes it. What I found interesting was how Thomas uses other coming of age books though fiction, to help describe teenagers, one of the books being Catcher In The Rye which was my second Roar book.Quote: "The teenager is a symbol of American's aspirations, the repository of hopes, the one who will realize the American dream. And inevitably, the teenager is a disappointment, whose combination of adult capacities and juvenile irresponsibility sows personal heartbreak and social chaos." ( Hines 8)
Reaction: When I was reading this quote in the introduction of this book, i stopped and realize how true I believed this was. Society as a whole has to views on teenagers one as a positive and the other as a negative. Our society has such high hopes for teenagers in becoming the future however, at the same time they view them negatively as sometimes expecting them to do nothing but, wrong doing.
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