Once Upon a Quinceañera (Post Five)

Once Upon A Quinceañera # 5

Quote One: “Hispanic women are the evangelizers and teachers of values, yet their leadership has often gone unrecognized.” –Julia Alvarez, page 179

Significance: I think this quote has to do with the question: How do the characters maintain their cultural ties to their homeland white living in America? I think it has to do with that quote because it really shows that they maintain their cultural ties. Like it said in the quote, they are teachers of values, meaning they must have been like that before they got to America. Now since they moved to America, they are still the same way.

I guess this quote relates to me. I am Puerto Rican. So I guess you can say I have some leadership skills.

Question 1: Do you think you’re a leader? Why or why not?

Quote Two: “Just consider two of the emblematic gifts that the young lady receives in a traditional Mexican American quinceañera ceremony: a tiara or crown and esclava, which literally translate “slave,” the name for a type of “identity bracelet” with one’s name engraved upon it.” –Julia Alvarez, page 208

Significance: This quote has to do with [again]: How do the characters maintain their cultural ties to their homeland white living in America? I think it has to do with this quote because they do the same traditions in Mexico and America. Considering, they give the same gifts in an American quinceañera and a Mexican quinceañera.

Character Judgment: I think it was interesting that Julia Alvarez said that. She sort of said it like a stereotype. Like she made it sound like every quinceañera gives gifts like that. I think that not all quinceañeras give gifts like that. Every quinceañera is different.

Question 2: Do you think all quinceañeras give gifts like that?