Knowledge comes as Mary Helen becomes aware of the fact that she is unwelcome in certain places, like the local movie theater, because of her race.
Questions about the reading
1. Catholicism plays an important role in the novel. Are people such as the women called "The Three Trinidads" who compete as to who can offer the most prayers to God and Father Muller who hates dancing but loves the beach hypocrites? Does their form of rationalization reflect badly upon the faith? (Compare these images with the author's mother at her young brother's funeral).
2. The story is told through the eyes of a child, but the author is much older. How...
Hoyt Street The autobiographic work Hoyt Street by Mary Ponce describes in intimate detail what it was like growing up in a Hispanic family inside the United States of America. Even though the author is relating stories from her experiences going as far back in time in the 1940s, she is able to relate to the present audience as though a comrade in a common historical moment. The crux of the
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