A Rice Sandwich by 22S Joyner https://padlet.com/22sjoyner27415/lsqdif2520gq Dialectical Journal en-us 2019-02-08 17:50:19 UTC 2024-07-14 10:38:31 UTC hello@padlet.com The speaker of this quote is Esperanza. 22apenaloza31262 https://padlet.com/22sjoyner27415/lsqdif2520gq/wish/330004912 2019-02-11 17:57:19 UTC https://padlet.com/22sjoyner27415/lsqdif2520gq/wish/330004912 Esperanza is jealous of “the special kids”, or in her eyes the upper class, and the more privileged, who gets to eat lunch in “the canteen” at school instead of having to go home to eat like Esperanza does. One day she asks her mother to write a note giving her permission to pack a lunch and be able to eat in the canteen so she can be like the other kids. 22apenaloza31262 https://padlet.com/22sjoyner27415/lsqdif2520gq/wish/330005135 2019-02-11 17:57:41 UTC https://padlet.com/22sjoyner27415/lsqdif2520gq/wish/330005135 In this quote, Esperanza talks about wanting to eat in the canteen with the “special kids” or in other words the more privileged, wealthy, and upper class. We feel that the canteen is a symbol that is revealed to be one of the many divisions between the rich and the poor used in this book. This directly displays Esperanza’s otherness because she believes that she is viewed as non wealthy/poor and feels rejected from the superior class making her feel valued less and unwelcomed which is why she is trying so hard to fit in. 22apenaloza31262 https://padlet.com/22sjoyner27415/lsqdif2520gq/wish/330005394 2019-02-11 17:58:02 UTC https://padlet.com/22sjoyner27415/lsqdif2520gq/wish/330005394 “The special kids, the ones who wear keys around their necks, get to eat in the canteen. The canteen. Even the name sounds important… I got it in my head one day to ask my mother to make me a sandwich and write a note to the principal so i could eat in the canteen too” (Cisneros, 43) 22apenaloza31262 https://padlet.com/22sjoyner27415/lsqdif2520gq/wish/330005636 2019-02-11 17:58:17 UTC https://padlet.com/22sjoyner27415/lsqdif2520gq/wish/330005636 Repetition: “The special kids, the ones who wear keys around their necks, get to eat in the canteen. The canteen.” (Cisneros, 43) Esperanza is using the repetition of the word canteen to emphasize the importance it represents to her and how desperate she wants to eat there so she can feel like she belongs. 22apenaloza31262 https://padlet.com/22sjoyner27415/lsqdif2520gq/wish/330006037 2019-02-11 17:58:56 UTC https://padlet.com/22sjoyner27415/lsqdif2520gq/wish/330006037 Symbolism: “Canteen” (Cisneros, 43) Esperanza uses Canteen as a symbol to showcase the wealth of the kids that are allowed to eat there. 22apenaloza31262 https://padlet.com/22sjoyner27415/lsqdif2520gq/wish/330006853 2019-02-11 18:00:22 UTC https://padlet.com/22sjoyner27415/lsqdif2520gq/wish/330006853 Symbolism: “A Rice Sandwich” (Cisneros, 43) The phrase a rice sandwich symbolizes how Esperanza and her family are poor for as they cant afford real meat. This showcases how she feels she is “sandwiched” inside of this poor life from her family and can’t get out of it. 22apenaloza31262 https://padlet.com/22sjoyner27415/lsqdif2520gq/wish/330006968 2019-02-11 18:00:35 UTC https://padlet.com/22sjoyner27415/lsqdif2520gq/wish/330006968 A connection we took away from the vignette “A Rice Sandwich” is the recurrence of “Otherness”. Esperanza feels as though she is not welcomed and valued less at her school adding on to the fact that she feels as though she doesn’t belong anywhere. 22apenaloza31262 https://padlet.com/22sjoyner27415/lsqdif2520gq/wish/330007938 2019-02-11 18:02:11 UTC https://padlet.com/22sjoyner27415/lsqdif2520gq/wish/330007938 Cisneros uses repetition and symbolism within the vignette " A Rice Sandwich" in order to emphasize the theme of the topic otherness. 22awaiton35693 https://padlet.com/22sjoyner27415/lsqdif2520gq/wish/330190559 2019-02-12 04:33:54 UTC https://padlet.com/22sjoyner27415/lsqdif2520gq/wish/330190559 22sjoyner27415 https://padlet.com/22sjoyner27415/lsqdif2520gq/wish/330193550 2019-02-12 04:54:47 UTC https://padlet.com/22sjoyner27415/lsqdif2520gq/wish/330193550