Bodega dreams essay

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The Bodega Dreams: A Lecture Review

I chose this particular reading because of the strong message it sends, especially in today’s political issues that we face here in our country every day. The message in this reading is clearly about immigrant kids trying to adapt to the American education system, while struggling with the everyday social constrains and different cultural views, such as racism. In this fiction novel, Ernesto Quinones was able to bring a little truth that some of these kids face when they are put in the same classroom with an old fashioned American teacher. Ernesto Quinones’ Bodega Dreams also shows us, that through this novel, the reality of today’s living conditions of these “so called” ghetto communities live, and how the author makes it easier for the audience to understand it far better, than any ethnographers are capable of doing.

Bodega Dreams is not a long reading, but very enjoyable. This is a story that is set in New York City, East Harlem to be exact, and the story is told by Chino, one of the main character of the novel and he is detailing all the issues him and his friends were going through in life as well as going back to when they were all attending Julia de Burgos Junior High. From the early beginnings these kids were faced with the adversity of their teacher crushing their dreams and make them believe that no matter how hard they worked to be successful, they were all going to fail. The teacher, who in the novel is identified as Mr. Blessington, was some sort of the dream crusher for these kids, who most of them already lived in difficult situations because of their social and economic status. The argument in Bodega Dreams covers a moral picture and social dilemma, as well as a particular social awareness, which is fully entwined to ethnicity and character formation. Chino is a half Puerto Rican, half Ecuadorian, whose willingness to learn helped him make it through his young life and all the baggage that came with it as a young boy growing up in those communities.