A representative is chosen or appointed to act or speak for another or others, according to Google. The play by Luis Valdez takes place in LA during 1943 where both World War 2 and the Zoot Suit riots were happening. In the play Zoot Suit we follow Henry who is a pachuco, part of a gang called the 38th street gang along with El Pachuco who likes to give Henry advice on what to do throughout the play still he is unable to interact with anyone excluding Henry. Along with Della, Rudy, Lupe, Smiley, Joey, Tommy together with the rest of the 38th gang they go dancing one last time before Henry goes off to fight in the war. Suddenly their rival, the downy, shows up to cause trouble but soon after sirens begin to be heard. The police, along with the …show more content…
This is where it undoubtedly clicked for me that El Pachuco is a representative of all pachucos and pachucas since there are many ways you can compare The Press characteristics and El Pachuco characteristics. During the Zoot Suit riots where sailors and Zoot suiters started fighting, El Pachuco told the press “Why don’t you tell them what I really am, ese, or how forbidden to use the very word. . .” (Valdes 79). This is the first time we witness El Pachuco talking to anyone other than Henry. And it’s when there’s an abundance of pachucos and pachucas. It's in a way just like how in the play they condense the press into one singular character called The Press. Therefore, I think that the author was doing the same thing to El Pachuco’s character to further the story. Afterwards, in the book, while El Pachuco is fighting back against the press and the sailors, the stage directions state “EL PACHUCO is overpowered and stripped as Henry watches helplessly from his position. The press and servicemen exit with pieces of EL PACHUCO’s zoot suit. EL PACHUCO stands for "Standards" The only item on his body is a loincloth.” (Valdes 81). In history, it was a known fact that sailors would strip zoot suiters who were mostly pachucos, the reason being that they thought it was unpatriotic to wear so much fabric during the war. Now with this understanding in mind they are …show more content…
Luis Valdes added El Pachuco so he could be Henry's counselor, guiding him through the small and big hurdles in life. Towards the beginning of the book when Henry still wanted to join the navy, El Pachuco, who opposed his idea, tells Henry “Because this ain’t your country. Look at what's happening all around you. The Japs have sewed up the Pacific. Rommel is kicking ass in Egypt, but the Mayor of L.A. has declared an all-out war on Chicanos. On to you. Te curas?” (Valdes 30). El Pachuco in this scene is highly against him going to fight in the war since there's already a war happening in L.A. Furthermore, El Pachuco is trying to tell Henry that he should first fight the war that's happening in his own city. This also corresponds with El Pachuco being a representative since nearly all pachucos were aware of the injustice that was occurring in their city. When Henry had barely met George, Henry had asked him a question but George didn’t answer his question; El Pachuco told Henry “He didn’t answer your question, ese.” (Valdes 41). Then Henry told George “You still didn’t answer my question, mister.” (Valdes 41). This is a good example of Henry taking El Pachuco’s advice, showing us that Henry does indeed listen to what he has to say. Furthermore, El Pachuco is yet again demonstrating that he is a proxy since all pachucos would be on edge not knowing if the person they
In this chapter, he is bringing light to our current vision that the conquistadores were hand picked by the king in other to serve a greater propose. According to Restall the “Army” we know today was not created until the late 17th century. Through out this paragraph, Restall shows, that this myth was also brought to life trough narratives and letters. Many, if not all were regular men, without military experience. He uses of a historical time line to prove that it was not until after the military revolution that the Spanish started speaking of conquistadores as solders. In this chapter, Restall mentioned that the conquistadores were merchants, artisans and farmers that saw in the new world a chance to change their life and the way they live. Most of them were not directed or funded by the
Portilla starts out by giving a thorough background of the culture and religious beliefs. The reader can draw many theories on how this carried over to the Aztecs way of thinking and fighting. In addition to the religion and culture, Portilla shows the technology advantages the Spanish had over the Aztecs. He also goes on to describe the poor leadership of Motecuhzoma. Motecuhzoma will be portrayed as a coward. Portilla also writes about the strategy that worked rather well for the Spanish as they made alliances with the Tlaxcalatecas and other cities. He finally talks about plague that wiped out much of the Aztecs. This may have been the greatest factor in the fall of the Aztecs Empire. All of these factors combined effectively show how the Spaniards prevailed over this great Aztec Empire of the 15th and early 16th century.
Throughout the play there are underlying theme that suggest different ideas. The themes I will discuss is how Mexican American men are portrayed in relation to women and the general public in the United States, the role the press played for the soul purpose of making money, and the struggle of young Mexican Americans to find a place, a style, or a chance to belong and be accepted without a negative stereotype. Pachuco seems to be the nagging conscience of Henry who is on trial for the Sleepy Lagoon Murder. The Pachuco character in his Zoot Suit has a fierce presence, which is seen by the Americans of this time as rebellious and gangster like. When describing the Zoot Suit Pachuco states, "PUT ON A ZOOT SUIT, MAKES YOU FEEL REAL ROOT LOOK LIKE A DIAMOND, SPARKLING, SHINING READY FOR DANCING READY FOR THE BOOGIE TONIGHT THE HEPCATS UP IN HARLEM WEAR THAT DRAPE SHAPE COMO LOS PACHUCONES DOWN IN L.A. WHERE HUISAS IN THEIR PRMPADOURS LOOK REAL KEEN ON THE DANCE FLOOR OF THE BALLROOMS DONDE BAILAN SWING. YOU BETTER GET HEP TONIGHT AND PUT ON THAT ZOOT SUIT!" (p. 26)
This essay will compare and contrast the protagonist/antagonist's relationship with each other and the other jurors in the play and in the movie versions of Reginald Rose's 12 Angry Men. There aren't any changes made to the key part of the story, but yet the minor changes made in making the movie adaptation produce a different picture than what one imagines when reading the drama in the form of a play. First off, the settings in the movie are a great deal more fleshed out. In the play, the scene begins with the jurors regarding the judge's final statements concerning the case in the courtroom and then walking out into the jury room. In the movie, the audience is placed in the role of the invisible casual observer, who for perhaps the first 5 minutes of the movie, walks throughout the court building passing other court rooms, lawyers, defendants, security officers, elevators, etc.
él Californio: Don Alejandro Vásquez a great uncle of José, very stubborn old man who stayed in California after the war, as far as he was concerned he was still in México.
The outnumbered Spanish conquistadors were able to so easily defeat the natives of South and Central America for many reasons. These reasons include the spread of disease, the fear the Spanish spread, civil war, and the thought that Cortez was a God. The Natives were not immune to the European disease such as smallpox, influenza measles, typhus, plague, malaria, and yellow fever. This wiped out 85-90% of the Native population in 50 years. This was the largest demographic catastrophe in human history. (Document 4: The American Holocaust)
The arrest of Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman was a victorious circumstance for the Mexican government, who have been closing down on his presence for the recent past years. Mexican authorities began taking down high ranked members of the Sinaloa Cartel including two of Guzman’s main associates. On February 22, 2014, the world’s most wanted man had also been captured. Although the biggest drug lord has been captured, the crime and violence left behind cannot be forgotten.
In the early 1900’s, one man bested the rival troops and used his intelligence to defeat the oppressive Mexican regime. Doroteo Arango Arámbula, also known as Pancho Villa, was born into a poor family and worked in the fields. Pancho Villa escalated from a peasant outlaw into a well-known revolutionary war strategist and folk hero. Pancho Villa could easily outsmart troops and use his popularity to help his cause for equality. His actions could not atone for any previous transgressions in his life of crime, but his tactics as a revolutionary war commander made him almost unstoppable when it came to fighting for equality. Pancho Villa was an important factor in the Mexican Revolution and its beginnings. He was one of the first revolutionaries to fight against the Mexican government, and successfully evaded and won fights against the United States government. His greatest achievement was the amount of influence he delivered the poor, and empowered them to fight for their rights.
In this way, George – no longer Guánlito – has politically and culturally betrayed his people, and “is not is not the tragic hero who has died in defense of his people” (Mendoza 148). In conclusion, through its plot, characterization, and rhetorical devices such as tone, George Washington Gomez is an anti-corrido. However, it must be said that perhaps in its purpose as an anti-corrido, the novel is a corrido. In telling the story of Guánlito, the anti-hero of the Mexicotexans, perhaps Paredes is singing the readers his own border ballad, an ironic, cautionary tale to the Chicanos to remember who they are and where they came from and to resist, always, as a corrido hero would.
For the 71 years that the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) was in power, Mexico saw great political, social and economic upheaval. This can be seen in the evolution of the PRI party, whose reign over Mexican society came at the expense of true democracy. “A party designed for power, the PRI's mechanisms for success involved a combination of repressive measures. The party professed no specific ideology, enabling it to adapt to changing social, economic and political forces over time. It attached itself virtually all aspects of civil society, and in this way, it become the political extension and tool of the government.” In 2000, however, the PRI’s loss of its monopoly on political power and institutional corruption gave rise to inter-cartel violence that was created in the political void left after the PAN won the national presidential election. These conditions gave rise to the Zetas: a new type of cartel that changed the operational structure of previous drug cartels. The Zetas operate in a new militant structure associated with a higher brand of violence, which has led it to branch out beyond a traditional drug smuggling enterprise common under the PRI government. Simply put, the electoral defeat of the PRI in 2000 was supposed to usher in a more democratic era in Mexican politics. Instead, the PRI party’s defeat created a state of chaos that gave rise to inter-cartel violence and the birth of the Zetas cartel.
Zoot Suit, a play written by Luis Valdez, depicts the racially charged trial of the Sleepy Lagoon Case of 1942 in which the courts charged a group of Pachucos with the murder of another Mexican-American. During the 1940s, many Mexican-Americans suffered widespread discrimination as dramatized in Zoot Suit. To combat such discrimination many Chicano youth wore stylized zoot suits, adorned with oversized jackets during fabric shortages as a form of social and political rebellion. Zoot Suiters felt disempowered by their position within society and used their fashion to send out a message and as a means to regain their masculinity. The Pachucos were accused with the murder of a fellow Mexican-American not because of clear evidence or proof, but because of their ethnic identity, renegade style of dressing, and behavior. The fundamental conflict that led to their arrest and unfair trial was a clash between Mexican-Americans and the dominant White American culture. Acting as a host, El Pachuco is the spirit of the ideal, defiant Pachuco and serves as Henry’s Reyna’s alter ego throughout the play, intermingling past Mexican culture with the current Zoot Suit culture. El Pachuco serves as a corrective to illustrate the heavy biases that the court and media displayed throughout the 1940s against Chicano people. Through his constant interjections during the courtroom scene, and his final confrontation with the reporter at the conclusion of the play he points out the injustices that Mexican-Americans had to endure.
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In 1997, US Secretary of State Madeline Albright delivered a lecture to the graduating class of Mount Holyoke College. The college is located in Massachusetts and is exclusively for women. The intention was to congratulate all of the women on their accomplishments. Albright appeals to pathos, examples, a political lens, and repetition to effectively convey to the audience the successes of women worldwide. Albright appeals to emotion in her address to empower and celebrate the women graduating from college.
House Taken Over is a short story written by Julio Cortazar. Set in Buenos Aires and tells the story of a brother and his sister, Irene, who live and care for their large family home. They spend their days cleaning and then doing what makes them happy. Irene knits all day and the brother spends his time watching her knit or reading. The two of them live alone in the big house, until one night the brother hears noises from the back part of the house and he understands that part of the house is being "taken over.” So, he shuts the large oak doors and locks up that part of the house. It’s never said exactly what has “taken over” the house. In fact, nothing is said about what “they” are or even why “they” are so dangerous. All we know about “them” is that when they “take over” there is nothing