A Comparison Of Los Vendidos And Freakish Times

Los Vendidos Vs Freakish Times
Theme
For my final essay I choose to compare and contract Luis Valdez “Los Vendidos” and Lesli-Jo Morizono “Freakish Times”. “Los Vendidos” is an Acto which is a realistic play that dramatized the social or economic problems of Chicanos. In any case, the play transmits mixed impressions about what the American culture expects from the Mexicans, which additionally sustains the racial generalizations coordinated at this nationality. Stereotyping is more than a form of social discrimination; it is a lifestyle by which the dominant majority and the vulnerable minority live, abiding to the socially shaped misconceptions about how minorities should be or how they should act.

Morizono’s “Freakish Times” is more Magic

Realism. On the one hand, it draws on the Realist tradition in literature, which was all about depicting the world as we see it, with all its everyday details and all its many problems. But on the other hand, Magic Realism fills this Realist world with the fantastic, the extraordinary, and the supernatural. It's a literary movement that jumbles together the fantastic and the mundane, and by doing so, it shows how life, even at its most trivial, can get fantastic quickly.
dialogue
The dialogue of “Los Vendidos” is rampant with sarcasm and insinuations, not only in the dialect used, but as well as the way that descriptions are used to covey onto the audience the clichés of stereotypical assumptions that many people have about Mexicans. This is a powerful stylistic play, since Valdez aims to mirror back to the audience every joke, comment, or belief that he has heard people say about Mexicans and Mexican Americans. Therefore, the voice of the play is represented through Ms. Jimenez's ignorant and belittling point of view, hence characterizing every single person who has ever been like Ms. Jimenez. Therefore, the theme of racial stereotyping is expressed throughout the play in a voice that reflects the feelings and ignorance of anyone who has ever been prejudiced against Mexicans, or against any other race of which they really know very little.

The dialogue in “Freakish Times” is set in the future and is a conversation between a old women and a young women. In “Freakish Times” the use of magical realism allows you to use your imagination to interpret the meaning. Magic Realism is defined by contradiction. All things considered Magical Realism seems like a strange combination, but strange combinations are just what make Magic Realist writers tick. They love to depict the mundane, everyday world we know all too well yet then they infuse it with some dream as though dream were the most typical thing on the planet. Just like the old women describing living in a whale, but symbolically was her mother womb.

setting

The play is set at Honest Sancho's Used Mexican Lot, and an anecdotal Mexican doodad shop, which offers mechanical models emulating the diverse generalizations inborn amongst Mexicans and Americans.

The models can be controlled by purchasers by a straightforward breaking or snapping of the fingers flagging certain particular charges. A significant part of the activity natural in the play spins around one of the real characters, the secretary, who in the play is given the name of Miss Jimenez. She in the start of the play starts discussion with the proprietor of the store in this presented as Honest

Sancho.

“Freakish Times” however is set in the future in a post apoctolictic seting.

This play starts with the picture of a burial ground on a cloudy day. An old lady is meandering around this burial ground while sniffing the air. She achieves an open grave, hangs over it, grabs an arm and sniffs it. A young lady is inside this open grave, and when she sees the old lady, she asks her what year it is. The old lady lets her realize that it is the twenty-fifth year after "the" torment. The young lady is experiencing serious difficulties recollecting things and she gets some information about the torment. The old lady, in the wake of setting a cover on the ground and taking out sustenance from a container, starts to educate her concerning the torment that came to pass for the earth. Prior to the torment, and about the season of the old lady's introduction to the world, the fallen angel had secured the earth with his cover. There was no place to live, and the old lady herself had grown up inside a whale's tummy.

climax

The climax of this play would be when we find out the the sellout would be Ms. Jimenez who is, herself, a Chicana who has been so inculcated in the standard American way that she doesn't understand to which degree her solicitations are obtrusively supremacist and segregating.

In “Freakish Times” The mother explained how hideous the new born baby was, an outcast, one who couldn’t have survived without all her senses. Love is blind and we all yearn to fill in the missing pieces

of our own life’s. The Climax of this play is when you realize the the old women and young women are actually mother and daughter. For me it symbolizes the circle of life, and life goes on even after death.

resolution

Mozino play has so much symbolic mean. This particular line “I hunger for you more than ever.” Has so much meaning in this play from satisfying one’s hunger, the reunion of mother and child, and filling in the missing pieces of a broken heart. For mean the resolution was to mend a bond of a mother and daughter who didn’t have the change to know one another and a mothers unconditional love for her children. So many elements of magical realism in this play which allows your imagination to run ramped.

In Luis Valdez’s “Los Vendidos” On the surface, actos are essentially skits, but they transcend the simplicity of skits due to their social justice background. Chicanos had issues that need to be expressed and the acto was the most efficient way to make a political statement and demonstrate the growing dissatisfaction with the status quo in the United States.