What Happens Before The Arrival By Sandra Cisner Summary

What literally happened in the story?
What happens in the story is that there is a man who lives in the United States and has a baby boy and wife living in Mexico I believe. He works really hard and is saving money so he can pay to bring his family to the United States with him. So they both come and arrive at his apartment and goes up but never comes done. The women in the story is named “Mamacita” little women. She only knows three phrases in English one of them been “no speak English”. As time flies the women wants to go home because she was happier back home.The father knows English but not too well. For instance, he would have “hamandegg” for breakfast, dinner, and lunch. Their kid starts to speak the English language by listening to Pepsi commercials and the women doesn;t like that he is learning that the English language. There is a point where the women ask “Cuando”(when). She is asking when will she be home. The man then paints their apartment pink just like back home. Only that the women know it's not the same. She now knows that she will never be home and

I think she saying that the immigrants have the dream to have a better life but it means to lose what you had before, meaning your home. The women miss her home she missed everything about it but the father knew that by staying in the United States was the best decision for their child.Also, Cisneros showed that the father wanted her to speak English because he would get mad when she didn’t speak it. He knows that where there live English is a major key to success. We read that the women obviously seem miserable where she was and was only hoping to go back home. At the end when she saw the kids speaking or singing in English she understood that that's where the kid belongs. So all she has left to do is let her tears go