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Alicia Gallardo
Theme: racism, "To my surprise the coach was a black man—surprise because, aside from garbage men, I had never seen a black person employed by the city."(15).

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Ariana Briseno
Theme: Relationships ¨

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Victor Tapia
Theme: Relationships
"These feelings were tender, like rope burns, and the slightest suggestion from a girl had me drifting about the school yard with great yearning." (6)

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Alicia Gallardo
Theme: poverty, "where we grew dreamy as incense looking at shirts, pants, belts, loafers—those wonderful things that were as far from us as Europe" (12).

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Dominic Contreras
Theme- violence:
"An innocent mistake, no doubt, but still I had to beat up her brother Ernie for pulling the move able strings of my heart and making me look like a fool to myself"

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Omar Ramirez
Theme: Relationship
On paragraph 2 it says" I was in love with her and told my pillow so as I hugged it at night"

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Alicia Gallardo
Theme- violence, "An innocent mistake, no doubt, but still I had to beat up her brother Ernie for pulling the moveable strings of my heart and making me look like a fool to myself" (10).

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Diego Joaquin A.
Theme: Identity
"I suppose my desire for girls was keenest as I approached adolescence. These feelings were tender, like rope burns, and the slightest suggestion from a girl had me drifting about the school yard with great yearning." (6)

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Madelyn Barrios
Theme: violence
"An innocent mistake, no doubt, but still I had to beat up her brother Ernie for pulling the movable strings of my heart and making me look like a fool to myself"(6).
story 12-Saturdays with Jackie
theme:Poverty: "On our street it was a practice to collect coke bottles that could be traded in at a liquor stores at a nickle apiece. Making money, he answered, simply"(11).

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Theme- Violence

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Caesar Hernandez
Theme: relationships,  "I suffered greatly as I waited for school to end. When it did I ran out to the playground, to the monkey bars, where I climbed to the top and waited for her to come out of her class and head for home". pg. 6 line  27

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Cassandra Flores
Theme - Identity
¨In the sixth grade, however, my desire took a turn. I was in love with her and told my pillow so as I hugged it at night. I spoke to it private and deep things and it spoke back: “You’re a neat guy, Gary.” But there was a problem. She was by then in love with another guy, a seventh grader the rumor had it, and my love for her didn’t bounce back like radar, even when I gave her, by way of a friend, a valentine which had a lollipop pressed with the words “You’re a cutie!” .¨ (pg.6)

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Jason Mendez
Theme: Relationships
"It was just before lunch, prior to the period when valentines would be handed out, and in my mind I witnessed again and again her reaction. She would be surprised and alive with deep feelings. ¨ (4)

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Aidy Mata
Theme: Relationships ¨These feelings were tender, like rope burns, and the slightest suggestion from a girl had me drifting about the school yard with great yearning¨ (pg.6)

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Marisol Albarran
Theme: relationships,"  I was in love with her and told my pillow so as I hugged it at night'' (6)

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Yvette Handa
Theme: Relationships
"These feelings were tender, like rope burns, and the slightest suggestion from a girl had me drifting about the school yard with great yearning. I’m thinking of my “object of desire" (6).

Story 12 - Saturday with Jackie
Theme: Violence
" He held his mannequin like a club and smacked mine right in the face, which cracked and chipped. I swung mine, and his mannequin’s head fell off" (13).

Story 13 - The Small Faces
Theme: Racism
" To my surprise the coach was a black man—surprise because, aside from garbage men, I had never seen a black person employed by the city" (14).

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Eric Herrera
Theme:  Violence
"An innocent mistake, no doubt, but still i had to beat up her brother Ernie for pulling the moveable strings of my heart and making me look like a fool to myself" (10).

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Myia Garcia
Theme: Violence
"An innocent mistake, no doubt, but still I had to beat up her brother Ernie for pulling the moveable strings of my heart and making me look like a fool to myself. Punchpunchpunch during cadet period, and I was demoted to a private again because the teacher caught me stuffing leaves inside his shirt behind the bushes.
It’s just something you have to do"(10).

Story 12- Saturday with Jackie
Theme: Poverty
"especially at clothing stores where we grew dreamy as incense looking at shirts, pants, belts, loafers—those wonderful things that were as far from us as Europe" (12).

Story 13- The small faces
Theme: Racism
"To my surprise the coach was a black man—surprise because, aside from garbage men, I had never seen a black person employed by the city"(15).

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Omar Becerra
Theme: Environment, ¨At lunch there was a dance in the auditorium. An arena of students looked dully on, hands in pockets and cradling stacks of books, as three or four couples dazzled everyone by turning tenderly in a slow dance with their eyes closed. For slow music there was the Righteous Brothers, The Drifters, Mary Wells. For fast dancing there was the Supremes, The Spencer Davis Group, James Brown, Martha and the Vandellas, and the Kingsmen with their Louie, Louie¨ (pg.9).
Story 12- Saturday with Jackie
Theme: Environment, ¨Not yet ten o’clock, the mall was quiet with only a few merchants hurrying, in a sort of panic, to their businesses; their faces looked waxen and their suits were bright as the toys at Woolworths. There were a few hobos, some kids like us, a man refilling a newspaper rack, a lone mother whose coat was like a soiled rug on her shoulders¨ (pg.12).
Story 13- The small faces
Theme: Environment, ¨I walked the four miles to Emerson, across Belmont, Tulare, and Ventura Avenues, where the houses, poor and dilapidated, slowly gave way to industry and shops—bakery, auto parts stores, a tire company, machine shop, and the import car dealer, Haron the Baron. There was a house for every vacant lot, a working car for every car that was rusting on flat tires¨(Pg.14).

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Sherlyn Ramirez
Theme: Relationships, "She was still part of my conscious life. My eyes followed her about campus, observing her every detail"(7).
Story 12
Theme: Environment, "There were a few hobos, some kids like us, a man refilling a newspaper rack, a lone mother whose coat was like a soiled rug on her shoulders"(pg.12).
Story 13
Theme: Racism,  "the coach was a black man—surprise because, aside from garbage men, I had never seen a black person employed by the city"(pg.14).

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Ms. Poole
Theme: Identity, " I suppose my desire for girls was keenest as I approached adolescence" (70).