Happy Halloween!! Today to go with the theme I'd like to talk about Coraline. It's about a girl who is alone and seeks adventure. It leaves me wondering why she wasn't afraid of the other beings who were not human? Did being alone make her feel that even if she was afraid it was better than being alone. I feel that story did add a dark tone and that a kid can never really tell the difference and it's believable about what Coraline did. Which was to go on and explore and not be afraid. As a add on I'd like to say that I found the mom scary. How was Coraline not afraid?

Today in class we spoke about How To Tame  A Wild Tongue by Gloria Anzaldua It speaks about how a language defines someone and that education shouldn't be limited to just American - English literature. In this case its true because if all a person read from one perspective it would be like in the other story It's Not an Oxymoron because than people get stereotyped because of that one sided perspective. Not only that but in the story Gloria wrote that "When i started teaching high school English to chicano students, I tried to supplement the required texts with works by chicanos, only to be reprimanded and forbidden to do so by the principle (pg. 2952). Then she goes behind his back and does it anyway to further prove the original statement. This leaves me feeling as a fellow Mexican to believe that language we learn is important to us. Although I am a bit curious as to why she said "By the end of this century, Spanish speakers will comprise the biggest minority group in the U.S...By the end of this century English, and not Spanish, will be the mother tongue of most Chicano and Latinos? As of right now in the year 2014 Spanish has become a second language In America.

Race and Stereo-typing

           Gary Shteyngart throughout his book "Little Failure" speaks of many things such as race, immigration, drugs, etc. The one that peaked my interest would be race. He was Russian Jewish, as he explains in the memoir he says that he grew up with having to fear African American (dark skin) because they would rob you. In class it was brought up that with race comes stereo-typing and its true because not only do people in general are raised to believe certain things about others, it's that they don't try to socialize with that certain group. In my opinion it amplifies the thought that after so much time; race and stereo-typing are what gets people to separate as race than to consider each other as human beings. Gary Shteyngart was able to portray that to me because he took everyone in as humans.

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The Color Complex

 In The Color Complex we come again to race, this time its more associated with color. Now in Colonial American times men had once outnumbered females and that caused the men to have relations with their slaves. Well in class we spoke of how due to the relationship there were offspring but they were neither dark or white. As that happened the fathers came to love their children thus letting them learn and own property even slaves. Later on we spoke that consequences came because of the one drop rule. Soon those who weren't fully dark feared they were going to be put in the same category. All this interracial mixing gave Colonial Americans a problem which is still here today. Today many Americans would land a job if they were a lighter skin. Some human beings just cannot see that its not the color that defines you but the credentials you have for it. That's why a prime example would be the use of affirmative action where it helps those of different race, skin, have a shot at the job. I believe we'll keep feeling colorism for a bit longer because as I see it now there are hardly any "pure whites" so it may go away in time but till then the affects of the past will still continue to influence the present and future if there is failure to change.