By: Piri Thomas
5comments
- Piri and his family move to Long Island in 1944.
- Piri's father found a neww job working in an airplane factory.
- Paulie died
- The people in his school don't like him because he is Puerto Rican.
- They want him to go back where he came from.
4questions
- Who is Paulie?
- Why don't they like hispanics?
- What is this girl impling?
- Why do these people think they are being invaded by niggers?
3vocabulary
- barrio: neighborhood area
- suerte: sweater
- dignantly: ?
2literary terms
- "I felt like I was plucking a mental daisy." p.84
- "some of these kids were dancing the mambo like stiff." p.83
1overview statement
- The people in Piri's new school don't like him be cause he is Puerto Rican they believe his ethnicity is a reflection of his behavior.
