Biographical and Historical Q's re: Urrea by Leslie Saito-Liu https://padlet.com/lsaitoliu/g6g2amg93fofdj9x What questions do we need to ask if we use biographical or historical criticism to examine and analyze Urrea’s novel? Post your answer below! en-us 2021-10-27 03:19:52 UTC 2026-01-08 01:21:21 UTC hello@padlet.com lsaitoliu https://padlet.com/lsaitoliu/g6g2amg93fofdj9x/wish/1849338663 In what ways did the politics of the time in which Urrea was writing the novel affect what he says or what happens to characters? ]]> 2021-10-27 19:56:38 UTC https://padlet.com/lsaitoliu/g6g2amg93fofdj9x/wish/1849338663 5426461 https://padlet.com/lsaitoliu/g6g2amg93fofdj9x/wish/1849342257 How did the relationship between his parents affect his own sense of personal identity today? How does this reflect in his writing?]]> 2021-10-27 19:58:29 UTC https://padlet.com/lsaitoliu/g6g2amg93fofdj9x/wish/1849342257 https://padlet.com/lsaitoliu/g6g2amg93fofdj9x/wish/1849344747 How did Urrea's ethnicity impact how he wrote the novel and its setting? ]]> 2021-10-27 19:59:43 UTC https://padlet.com/lsaitoliu/g6g2amg93fofdj9x/wish/1849344747 How did Urrea's location (and changes of location) affect his mindset? How did it affect his worldview? Both in terms of how he saw his family, and how he saw himself? https://padlet.com/lsaitoliu/g6g2amg93fofdj9x/wish/1849344799 add on: how do we see these views represented in the families within his novel? ]]> 2021-10-27 19:59:45 UTC https://padlet.com/lsaitoliu/g6g2amg93fofdj9x/wish/1849344799 https://padlet.com/lsaitoliu/g6g2amg93fofdj9x/wish/1849346234 How did Urrea's growing up in a bad neighborhood affect how he writes? He says "the neighborhood we lived in was full of ethnic violence and strife." How would that have affected his worldview and how he chooses to write?

add on: Did his own environment affect the setting or situations within the novel? How so?]]> 2021-10-27 20:00:35 UTC https://padlet.com/lsaitoliu/g6g2amg93fofdj9x/wish/1849346234 Fighting your own identity what kind of friends (ethnicity)would you tend to gravitate to? https://padlet.com/lsaitoliu/g6g2amg93fofdj9x/wish/1849346332 add on: how does this conflict show up between characters in the novel? How does it seem to shape character traits and of which characters?]]> 2021-10-27 20:00:38 UTC https://padlet.com/lsaitoliu/g6g2amg93fofdj9x/wish/1849346332 In what ways did Urrea's ethnicity and identity affect his perspective of writing https://padlet.com/lsaitoliu/g6g2amg93fofdj9x/wish/1849354534 add on: where do we see these perspectives and experiences reflected in the novel?]]> 2021-10-27 20:05:05 UTC https://padlet.com/lsaitoliu/g6g2amg93fofdj9x/wish/1849354534 How did his relationship with his parents and ethnicity affect the friendships and relationships he made https://padlet.com/lsaitoliu/g6g2amg93fofdj9x/wish/1849359762 2021-10-27 20:07:59 UTC https://padlet.com/lsaitoliu/g6g2amg93fofdj9x/wish/1849359762 https://padlet.com/lsaitoliu/g6g2amg93fofdj9x/wish/1849360660 Why is the story centered around the funeral and the birthday wake? How/why did Urrea make this story a tragedy and a comedy? ]]> 2021-10-27 20:08:29 UTC https://padlet.com/lsaitoliu/g6g2amg93fofdj9x/wish/1849360660