https://padlet.com/19levickm/e7uxv9ym5uu3 This is a padlet for the discussion of The Tortilla Curtain by T.C. Boyle en-us 2016-09-15 15:20:55 UTC 2016-10-27 16:05:57 UTC hello@padlet.com 19levickm https://padlet.com/19levickm/e7uxv9ym5uu3/wish/124100943 This confuses  me. I'm trying to imagine how he said this. Was he saying it like "he's mexican he doesn't care how much money he gets aslong as he gets some" or is he saying it like "he's mexican is poor" or is he saying it like he's lacking knowledge. What do you think he meant?]]> 2016-09-15 15:34:52 UTC https://padlet.com/19levickm/e7uxv9ym5uu3/wish/124100943 19levickm https://padlet.com/19levickm/e7uxv9ym5uu3/wish/124104667 Delaney, Kyra, America, Candido]]> 2016-09-15 15:43:31 UTC https://padlet.com/19levickm/e7uxv9ym5uu3/wish/124104667 19meadj https://padlet.com/19levickm/e7uxv9ym5uu3/wish/124110880 Reply to Quote]]> 2016-09-15 15:58:05 UTC https://padlet.com/19levickm/e7uxv9ym5uu3/wish/124110880 19czuchreym https://padlet.com/19levickm/e7uxv9ym5uu3/wish/126719125 Response to question]]> 2016-09-27 15:56:48 UTC https://padlet.com/19levickm/e7uxv9ym5uu3/wish/126719125 19levickm https://padlet.com/19levickm/e7uxv9ym5uu3/wish/127296203 How is Kyra going to handle the dog situation? whats her attitude going to be?]]> 2016-09-29 15:31:03 UTC https://padlet.com/19levickm/e7uxv9ym5uu3/wish/127296203 19levickm https://padlet.com/19levickm/e7uxv9ym5uu3/wish/127297200 "Kyra gave the stock response- "you're not like other kids, that's why...."]]> 2016-09-29 15:33:11 UTC https://padlet.com/19levickm/e7uxv9ym5uu3/wish/127297200 19levickm https://padlet.com/19levickm/e7uxv9ym5uu3/wish/127298078 Why is Delaney so frustrated at everything?]]> 2016-09-29 15:35:03 UTC https://padlet.com/19levickm/e7uxv9ym5uu3/wish/127298078 19levickm https://padlet.com/19levickm/e7uxv9ym5uu3/wish/127302355 "He kept picturing her in some rich man's house, down on her knees scrubbing one of those tiled kitchens with a refrigerator the size of a meat locker and one of those dark-faced ovens that boil water in sixty seconds, and the rich man watching her ass as it waved in the air and trembled with the hard push of her shoulders."]]> 2016-09-29 15:44:35 UTC https://padlet.com/19levickm/e7uxv9ym5uu3/wish/127302355 19levickm https://padlet.com/19levickm/e7uxv9ym5uu3/wish/129997284 "Who would be up here at this hour in a car like that?  He thought of the solemn fat man at the meeting and his litany of  oes,the bringer of bad tidings,   he Cassandra of Arroyo Blanco. Was it burglars, then? Muggers? Gangbangers? Is that what they were?"(64)]]> 2016-10-12 00:05:31 UTC https://padlet.com/19levickm/e7uxv9ym5uu3/wish/129997284 19levickm https://padlet.com/19levickm/e7uxv9ym5uu3/wish/129997864 Was Kyra having second thoughts about her life? why?]]> 2016-10-12 00:10:51 UTC https://padlet.com/19levickm/e7uxv9ym5uu3/wish/129997864 19levickm https://padlet.com/19levickm/e7uxv9ym5uu3/wish/129997959 Why did Canido hit América?????]]> 2016-10-12 00:12:04 UTC https://padlet.com/19levickm/e7uxv9ym5uu3/wish/129997959 19levickm https://padlet.com/19levickm/e7uxv9ym5uu3/wish/130493909 "He'd been damaged somehow, she could see that, damaged in the way of a man who has to scrape and grovel and kiss the hind end of some irrecusable Yankee boss, and his eyes showed it, jabbing out at the world like two weapons. He was Mexican, all right."(81)]]> 2016-10-13 15:55:41 UTC https://padlet.com/19levickm/e7uxv9ym5uu3/wish/130493909 19levickm https://padlet.com/19levickm/e7uxv9ym5uu3/wish/130498133 "You heard Jack Cherrystone speak to the issue, and nobody's credentials can touch Jack's as far as being liberal is concerned, but this society isn't what it was-and it won't be until we get control of the borders"(101)]]> 2016-10-13 16:04:43 UTC https://padlet.com/19levickm/e7uxv9ym5uu3/wish/130498133 19levickm https://padlet.com/19levickm/e7uxv9ym5uu3/wish/130500705 Why are they having this conversation in the grocery store? Isn't that unprofessional?]]> 2016-10-13 16:10:35 UTC https://padlet.com/19levickm/e7uxv9ym5uu3/wish/130500705 19levickm https://padlet.com/19levickm/e7uxv9ym5uu3/wish/130502127 "It was like being haunted by devils, redhaired devils and rubios in eighty-dollar running shoes and sunglasses that cost more than a laboring man could make in a week"(121)]]> 2016-10-13 16:13:48 UTC https://padlet.com/19levickm/e7uxv9ym5uu3/wish/130502127 19levickm https://padlet.com/19levickm/e7uxv9ym5uu3/wish/130507433 If the chemicals were hurting her hands that bad why did she persist for so long???]]> 2016-10-13 16:25:44 UTC https://padlet.com/19levickm/e7uxv9ym5uu3/wish/130507433 19levickm https://padlet.com/19levickm/e7uxv9ym5uu3/wish/130509496 "The valet parking attendant was Mexican, of course-Hispanic, Latino, whatever-....." (147)]]> 2016-10-13 16:30:31 UTC https://padlet.com/19levickm/e7uxv9ym5uu3/wish/130509496 19levickm https://padlet.com/19levickm/e7uxv9ym5uu3/wish/130512062 I understand she's angry and concerned but why is she getting so involved? Its really none of her business.]]> 2016-10-13 16:35:39 UTC https://padlet.com/19levickm/e7uxv9ym5uu3/wish/130512062 19levickm https://padlet.com/19levickm/e7uxv9ym5uu3/wish/130932249 "Those vagos? It was the one with the hat, wasn't it? The half-a-gringo?"(176)]]> 2016-10-15 18:59:52 UTC https://padlet.com/19levickm/e7uxv9ym5uu3/wish/130932249 19levickm https://padlet.com/19levickm/e7uxv9ym5uu3/wish/130932312 Why did américas pee burn? Did she get some type of disease?]]> 2016-10-15 19:01:34 UTC https://padlet.com/19levickm/e7uxv9ym5uu3/wish/130932312 19levickm https://padlet.com/19levickm/e7uxv9ym5uu3/wish/130932356 Is Delaneys opinion about Mexicans changing badly??]]> 2016-10-15 19:03:06 UTC https://padlet.com/19levickm/e7uxv9ym5uu3/wish/130932356 19levickm https://padlet.com/19levickm/e7uxv9ym5uu3/wish/130934558 "But whose constitution-mexico's? Did Mexico even have a constitution? But that was cynical too and he corrected himself"(185)]]> 2016-10-15 20:01:21 UTC https://padlet.com/19levickm/e7uxv9ym5uu3/wish/130934558 19levickm https://padlet.com/19levickm/e7uxv9ym5uu3/wish/130934767 "He looked round him at the budtlr in the lot of the Italian market, white faces, high heels, business suits, the greedy eyes and ravenous mouths. They lived in their glass palaces, with their gates and fences and security systems, they left half-eaten lobsters and beefsteaks on their plates when the rest of the world was starving, spent enough to feed and clothe a whole country on their exercise equipment, their swimming pools and tennis courts and jogging shoes, and all of them, even the poorest, had two cars"(200).]]> 2016-10-15 20:05:36 UTC https://padlet.com/19levickm/e7uxv9ym5uu3/wish/130934767 19levickm https://padlet.com/19levickm/e7uxv9ym5uu3/wish/130935064 Why would Canido even think about stealing? I didn't ever see him as that type of person.]]> 2016-10-15 20:11:59 UTC https://padlet.com/19levickm/e7uxv9ym5uu3/wish/130935064 19levickm https://padlet.com/19levickm/e7uxv9ym5uu3/wish/130935215 "This isn't about coyote, don't kid yourself. Its about Mexicans, its about blacks. Its about exclusion, division, hate. You think jack gives a damn about coyotes?"(220)]]> 2016-10-15 20:16:10 UTC https://padlet.com/19levickm/e7uxv9ym5uu3/wish/130935215 19levickm https://padlet.com/19levickm/e7uxv9ym5uu3/wish/130935536 What does pinche puta mean and why was it painted there?]]> 2016-10-15 20:25:03 UTC https://padlet.com/19levickm/e7uxv9ym5uu3/wish/130935536 19levickm https://padlet.com/19levickm/e7uxv9ym5uu3/wish/130935787 Was América fascinated by these people? Were they her hope/dream goals?]]> 2016-10-15 20:30:41 UTC https://padlet.com/19levickm/e7uxv9ym5uu3/wish/130935787 19levickm https://padlet.com/19levickm/e7uxv9ym5uu3/wish/130935841 "But she couldn't do that of course- that's what bums did, street people, vagos, mendigos." (231)]]> 2016-10-15 20:31:54 UTC https://padlet.com/19levickm/e7uxv9ym5uu3/wish/130935841