Week One

The poem "Para Teresa" is a story that explains how people of a different culture tries to manage and coexist in a new country that doesn't have the best of intentions for them. I'm referring to how many immigrants came to the Unite States and found that it wasn't always easy for the grown-ups because their culture was a difficult thing to change for a new one. Their children however, manage to relate more easily to the new way of life in the Americas and that lead to many new ways and views  of life that continue in the decedents of immigrants till this day. However, not all of the children's immigrants manage to get positive views of the so called american dream in their day and that got people angry enough to spread hatred in peoples mind. The poem is about Hispanic children who have different believes on how should they behave with teacher who don't treat them as equal and these students don't always have the right idea of defiance. The author tells the poem in both English and Spanish, I believe she does so in order to try and make the reader understand the struggle that she lived because both the teachers and students were against her in their own way. It also can explain the small amount of doubt that she had about making something of herself in the society that she was living in  because on times they force you pick between English and Spanish and not the both of them. Since the author is not a child by the time that she writes the poem, many of her ideologies change and she now views the world in a different way. The author was being rebellious by trying to achieve higher education and not to follow the typical path that many Hispanic people had of hard labor. However, Teresa being the person that rebels by giving disrespect and bulling other people can understand why somebody like herself doesn't do the same and instead gives in to the teachers. By thinking like an adult about the memories that she has about Teresa in her youth, she can she that it was her ways of expressing the many floads that people hade in those different times. Now she can understand a different view of other people and try think more equally about the people in her life.all there was in the poem was difference between people and now, all that was needed was the understanding between each other because that counts for so much.