Meme Ortiz & Louie, His Cousin, and His Other Cousin by 23L Nguyen https://padlet.com/23lnguyen30218/yyse7rqa2mdn en-us 2020-02-20 22:43:42 UTC 2025-03-21 03:53:57 UTC hello@padlet.com Topics : 23htruong52061 https://padlet.com/23lnguyen30218/yyse7rqa2mdn/wish/448880309 - Teenage Growth
- Youth/Being Young
- Desperation
]]> 2020-02-21 22:44:01 UTC https://padlet.com/23lnguyen30218/yyse7rqa2mdn/wish/448880309 Quote : 23htruong52061 https://padlet.com/23lnguyen30218/yyse7rqa2mdn/wish/448880447 “Apples, peaches, pumpkin pah-ay. You’re in love and so am ah-ay.”
(Cisneros 24)

“The seats were big and soft like a sofa, and there was a little white cat in the back window whose eyes lit up when the car stopped or turned.” (Cisneros 24)
]]> 2020-02-21 22:44:46 UTC https://padlet.com/23lnguyen30218/yyse7rqa2mdn/wish/448880447 Summary : 23htruong52061 https://padlet.com/23lnguyen30218/yyse7rqa2mdn/wish/448880584 Living downstairs in Meme Ortiz’s house’s basement resides a Puerto Rican family; Louie’s family according to Esperanza. Louie has an older cousin named Marin and she constantly repeats the same melody talking about being in love. Louie is also the eldest son and has an older cousin who stole a car in order to give the youths of the neighborhood a couple drives around the neighborhood before he was inevitably arrested by the police. ]]> 2020-02-21 22:45:34 UTC https://padlet.com/23lnguyen30218/yyse7rqa2mdn/wish/448880584 Theme Statement : 23htruong52061 https://padlet.com/23lnguyen30218/yyse7rqa2mdn/wish/448880605 Within the vignette "Louie, His Cousin, and His Other Cousin," Cisneros portrays themes of coming of age, crime, and poverty, in Esperanza's neighborhood through the use of parallelism, simile, and motifs.]]> 2020-02-21 22:45:40 UTC https://padlet.com/23lnguyen30218/yyse7rqa2mdn/wish/448880605 Topics : 23htruong52061 https://padlet.com/23lnguyen30218/yyse7rqa2mdn/wish/448880877 -Names
-Society
-Identity]]> 2020-02-21 22:47:17 UTC https://padlet.com/23lnguyen30218/yyse7rqa2mdn/wish/448880877 Quote : 23htruong52061 https://padlet.com/23lnguyen30218/yyse7rqa2mdn/wish/448880895 "Meme has a dog with gray eyes, a sheepdog with two names, one in English and one in Spanish. The dog is big, like a man dressed in a dog suit..." (Cisneros 21)]]> 2020-02-21 22:47:25 UTC https://padlet.com/23lnguyen30218/yyse7rqa2mdn/wish/448880895 Summary : 23htruong52061 https://padlet.com/23lnguyen30218/yyse7rqa2mdn/wish/448880930 Meme Ortiz's name is Juan but he goes by meme and he just moved into Cathy's house after her family moved away. He also has a dog with and Spanish and an English name. The house he moved into is lopsided and it has a tree in the back with large, fat arms. This tree was chosen for the First Annual Tarzan Jumping Contest in which Meme won but broke both arms.]]> 2020-02-21 22:47:37 UTC https://padlet.com/23lnguyen30218/yyse7rqa2mdn/wish/448880930 Theme Statement : 23htruong52061 https://padlet.com/23lnguyen30218/yyse7rqa2mdn/wish/448880939 Sandra Cisneros uses metaphors and similes throughout this vignette, "Meme Ortiz", to portray the theme that it is harder for someone to find their identity when they grow up bi-cultural.               ]]> 2020-02-21 22:47:41 UTC https://padlet.com/23lnguyen30218/yyse7rqa2mdn/wish/448880939 Meme Ortiz 23nroper30235 https://padlet.com/23lnguyen30218/yyse7rqa2mdn/wish/449312618 2020-02-24 05:42:01 UTC https://padlet.com/23lnguyen30218/yyse7rqa2mdn/wish/449312618 Louie, His Cousin, and His Other Cousin 23htruong52061 https://padlet.com/23lnguyen30218/yyse7rqa2mdn/wish/449800782 A photo of Marin humming her melody about love.]]> 2020-02-24 22:13:47 UTC https://padlet.com/23lnguyen30218/yyse7rqa2mdn/wish/449800782