In the passage, Martin, the author, Nick C. Vaca, writes about the time him and his friends had a confrontation with the new neighborhood boy, Martin. Through describing what happened before, during, and after the engagement he provides insight on what he learned from this experience. This experience left Vaca with a long-lasting impact and taught him how you shouldn't make assumptions about someone before you know them. When Martin and Vaca and his friends first meet, all the boys instantly decided their feelings towards Martin. The feeling they all felt towards him was the feeling of dislike. Quoting Vaca they hated him due to "his enormous belly." Martin's "enormous belly" lead to his dislikement was due to the fact that he had access …show more content…
to copious quantities of food. This cause Vaca and the boys to envy him, since they are not as lucky to have an abundance of food, and are very skinny and are not able to splurge on food. This initial reaction of dislike towards Martin results in the boys excluding Martin. Which soon broke out into a war between the boys. It began when Martin threw a clod at Vicente, Vaca's cousin, which resulted in a clod war between the boys. It ended with Vaca and his friends setting up a decoy and then ambushing Martin. Martin was ultimately defeated and ran home crying. After Vaca's friends dispersed for dinner Vaca found a cap gun that Martin had dropped during the showdown.
Vaca debated with himself if he should return it or keep the gun as a trophy for the showdown that him and his friends won, against Martin. Vaca decided in the end that he shoudl return the cap gun to Martin. As Vaca searched for where Martin lived in the neighborhood he very became anxious, for he knew it was dinner time and he was about to be confronted of the food that had made Martin so plump. Vaca found the trailer and knocked anyways, despite his apprehension. When he entered the trailer, the sight shocked him. Vaca described the experince thorugh symbolism to adaquetly explain what he saw. Vaca used symbolism in the line, "on a weather-worn table, with peeling red paint, dinner was set." Vaca uses this line to show that not only did the boys assume Martin lived a lavish life, but it was quite the opposite. To continue with his encounter of Martin's home, he also described what was happening in the house. Which was made up of Martin and his mother sitting alone in the living room crying together. Vaca ends the passage with saying, "there lay the food that had made Martin so enviable in our eyes — a small stack of corn tortillas and a glass of water." Through knowing that Martin was only eating corn tortillas Vaca now understood was he was fat, for it was all carbohydrates, and didn't provide any other nutrient, which lead to poor nutrient absorbtion and digestonal problems. Once Vaca realized this is how Martin is living he no longer disliked him, but felt remorseful towards him, since he has it worse off then everyone else in the neighborhood, but they all judged him and proceded to exclude
him. Through this experience with Martin, Vaca learned some very valuable life lessons that will stick with him for the rest of his life. What Vaca learned through this engagement was that not everything is how you perceive it and do not judge someone without knowing them. He learned this lesson by judging Martin by his looks, and since he appeared to be fat, he assumed his family was wealthy and he got to eating very well, compared to that of the rest of the boys in the neighborhood. Where once Vaca got to Martins home and saw the situation he understood that his perception and thoughts were wrong, and he judged Martin for no reason. This experience was very insightful to Vaca and most likely shaped his current thoughts and ideals and made him the person he is today, for that is what most life altering experiences tend to do to people.
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... what the town saw as amenable. As he says, "Disapprobation hurt me, I found-- even that of people whom I did not admire." (174). Jim hides behind the shadow of his dream, never fearless enough to accomplish his own goals. As Antonia faces the world with a dauntless face, Jim shrinks back at its hand. And as she cherishes her own family, Jim settles for his. He may be accepted by society but he'll never reach his own expectations.
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