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.