Jordy Mejia

      Jordy Mejia

803/Cunningham

 

       Martin Espada's poem "New Bathroom Policy at English High School" "Revolutionary Spanish Lesson'' and' 'Two Mexicanos Lynched in Santa Cruz, California,may,3,1877''  make the reader think about white people taking over the Hispanics control of freedom. The white people have power and they don't let the Hispanics have their rights.            

     '' New bathroom policy'' makes me think about how people will respond to their fear. The way that the principal responds to this is by banning Spanish from the bathroom. The principal bans Spanish only because he heard his name when the boys where talking. It makes him feel nervous because he can't understand what the boys were saying about him.it is not fair that they can't speak Spanish with their friends in the bathroom. The principal thinks that he could do that only because he has the power to do so.                                                                                                                                                                       

     Espada's poem ''Revolutionary Spanish Lesson'' makes the reader think about disrespect. An example from the text is that they mispronounce his name and he just wants to buy a toy pistol and a beret and hijack a busload of republican tourists. When Espada says that he wants to buy a toy pistol he is just angry at people that mispronounce his name which makes him fell disrespected.                                                                

     Espada's poem ''Two Mexicanos Lynched in Santa Cruz, California ,May3,1877''makes me think that it wasn't fair for the Mexicans to not have a trial in the court and sent to death by people of the town who choose what to do to them, and did not care. An example from the poem is that they took pictures of them when they were hanging as if it was a joke for them. This teaches me that you should give all your respect even if that person was dead or alive. You should not always take stuff like if it was a joke for you , you should always take it serous and it's not justice for the Mexicans.                                                                                                                                                                                                        

     In Martin Espada's poems ''New Bathroom Policy at the English High School'' ''Revolutionary Spanish Lesson'' and ''Two Mexicanos Lynched in Santa Cruz, California, May 3, 1877'' all the poems make me think that white people have all the respect to them but not the Hispanics. This makes me angry because that means if I was there then no one will give me the respect that I should have as everyone else.