On leaving / On Staying Behind by Romero, Jazmin https://padlet.com/2897327/mru5sxni9en1p1gd Activity 8: Thinking Critically, Questioning the Text and Examining the Structure of the text en-us 2020-11-06 04:57:04 UTC 2020-11-19 08:34:29 UTC hello@padlet.com Who are the other characters in these poems? What do they help us understand about the situations the mother and daughter are facing? 2897327 https://padlet.com/2897327/mru5sxni9en1p1gd/wish/896754640 Garcia implemented other characters like the cousins, the elders, the villagers, etc to emphasize the relevance on the individuals.]]> 2020-11-06 05:14:29 UTC https://padlet.com/2897327/mru5sxni9en1p1gd/wish/896754640 What is the significance of the different colored bandanas? What does this detail help us understand about the daughter’s situation? About the larger context for the poems? 2897327 https://padlet.com/2897327/mru5sxni9en1p1gd/wish/909342999 The significance of the different colored bandanas is a big part of the daughters journey. If she is to go with people with non yellow bandanas she could be lead o the wrong destination with the wrong people.]]> 2020-11-10 16:39:55 UTC https://padlet.com/2897327/mru5sxni9en1p1gd/wish/909342999 How does each poem start? Why is this important? 2897327 https://padlet.com/2897327/mru5sxni9en1p1gd/wish/909355142 The daughter starts the poem by running, her mother knows why. The daughter tests her strength s she has a long "harsh" journey ahead of her.]]> 2020-11-10 16:41:54 UTC https://padlet.com/2897327/mru5sxni9en1p1gd/wish/909355142 Each poem contains a brief narrative or story. The daughter’s poem is a hypothetical scenario. The mother’s poem is an experience she had that day. What is the significance of these narratives? What do they help us understand? 2897327 https://padlet.com/2897327/mru5sxni9en1p1gd/wish/909392634 they help us understand what this journey means to them but not more than each others safety and well being. It helps us see the love they have for one another as well, how they think of each other even when apart.]]> 2020-11-10 16:48:41 UTC https://padlet.com/2897327/mru5sxni9en1p1gd/wish/909392634 How does Garcia present this message or messages - consider the way the poems are organized, stanzas, lines, diction and imagery, POV, narrative? 2897327 https://padlet.com/2897327/mru5sxni9en1p1gd/wish/940321898 Garcia makes the poems easy to read, She uses this technique to shed light on the hot topic of emigration and immigration. Garcia frames her sentences in a dramatic way because of how she ends some lines mid conversation. Garcia uses colors to specify the importance, age, and meaning of each person/thing. For example, the yellow bandanas the daughter is symbolized more with the color yellow since she's optimistic and independent. When she states that she'll run, fight, and scream if any harm is done to her it bring the reader into the situation.]]> 2020-11-19 08:18:40 UTC https://padlet.com/2897327/mru5sxni9en1p1gd/wish/940321898 Why do you think the mother’s perspective comes after the daughter’s perspective? 2897327 https://padlet.com/2897327/mru5sxni9en1p1gd/wish/940325361 Because Garcia shows us the daughters journey before she can show us the fear that is created within the time period her daughter is gone, which only emphasizes the relevancy on the topics Garcia inherited in the poems.]]> 2020-11-19 08:19:53 UTC https://padlet.com/2897327/mru5sxni9en1p1gd/wish/940325361 What does Garcia seem to be saying through her poems? 2897327 https://padlet.com/2897327/mru5sxni9en1p1gd/wish/940367311  through her poems Garcia is trying to get the point across those hardships of those who emigrate/immigrate while also including all the challenges the families face seeing them leave. The poems emphasize the importance of staying hopeful and looking on the brighter sides when there are rough times. Garcia brings awareness to just how scary the whole process can be just to find a better and safer life, the process of immigrating is not easy and it always comes with risks.  ]]> 2020-11-19 08:34:18 UTC https://padlet.com/2897327/mru5sxni9en1p1gd/wish/940367311