First Response: Critical Analysis

Agueda Charles
Professor Anel I. Flores
English 1301January 30,2007

Ana Castillo’s novel focuses the Chicano’s life; they’re feelings of rejection, their ignorance, and their pain. The author emphasizes the way that parents use nicknames in their children instead of their real name.
The novel starts with a family who came to the USA for the American dream, just as many other Latin-American people. This family had the blessing to move to USA with the whole family and not only the father, head of the family, like many others families do. But this wasn’t enough to keep the family together. The father decides to abandon them and leave them at their own mercy.
On the first part of the novel, I feel that it is an unreal novel; it has a lot of fictional aspects; like in the church where the people of Tome were in the funeral of the little child of Sofi (the main character of the novel,) the kid sat up, cried and lifted herself up into the air and landed on the church roof. I can see the ignorance of the people, they didn’t know about epilepsy attacks, and the same ignorance makes them believe in fictional things.