Thursday, April 14, 2011

"The Pura Principle" Reflection

I LOVEDDDDDDDDD this article!! It was a complete page turner for me haha. I started reading and figured I'd finish later but I couldn't stop reading!! I loved the dialogue used and the story was very interesting as well. I loved how it was sort of in Spanglish too haha. For me it was as if I was reading a novela script or something like it. I got kind of lost in the beginning which made me want to read more to better understand what was going on. The language used was so real, it wasn't like the formal stuff we always read. The plot was also very attention grabbing. I felt the mom's anger when rafa would go off doing crazy things haha. It resembles your typical story of a person with an illness striving to be normal and not let it effect them. I compared my mother to rafa's mother and found them almost identical. Always working hard and exhausting herself but shows no sign of it. I know that no matter what I do she'd always have open arms for me or any of my siblings. Overall, great article! I really enjoyed reading it :)

2 comments:

  1. I really loved the dialogue too. I think it's easier to try to relate to, more approachable,with this type of dialogue, because it seems so informal.I think that looking at what illness does to people once it stares them in the face is an interesting topic to venture into.

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  2. I also loved the story! I agree with you when you said you liked the dialogue. I really liked how it was just kinda incorporated into the story effortlessly and it wasn't like a "he said, she said" type thing. It's really cool that you found similarities between your mom and the mom in the story :) that definitely makes it fun when you can make real life comparisons

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