Post for Jonathon S.

And The Shadow Took Him, started off as a very good eye catcher but at the end it was not as intriguing as the rest of the book. Their was a few things in the book that I didn’t quiet understand why the author portrayed Mexicans as. The author portrayed all Mexicans to be poor. He also portrayed them to have gang affiliations or for them to be in a gang. Why would the author want to give Mexicans such a bad image in the book? Especially when there is a lot of well educated hard working Mexicans out there that are not poor. And they are not in gangs of have gang affiliation. Yes, we all know that some Mexicans are in gang and belong to them but the majority of them do not and it is wrong for the author to portray them to be like this. Another thing is that I don’t know why the author used some much Spanish in the book. If the book is written in English shouldn’t the author be putting the English definition or the Spanish words next to them. Doesn’t that make more sense the just put Spanish words in that know body know what they mean. I speak English and I don’t speak Spanish so I had trouble with the book and all the Spanish that was used in it. Because I had absolutely no clue what any of the Spanish words meant in the book, isn’t the goal to make it so the reader can kind of understand them or will have a grasp of what them mean.

I did not mind reading the book but I could not understand why Joey was used as the whipping boy by William. The book never said why William hated Joey so much. It also never explained what Joey ever really did to make his father so angry at him. I wish the Author would have gone into more detail about what Billy was off doing all the time. It would have made the readers understand the Molina Family unit a little better. We all know that William had a hard life and that he had an extreme temper but I would have liked to know why his temper was so bad. What had happened to William to make him this quick to get angry and raise his hands to his kid’s? Did his father use to do that to him, beat on home when he was young? I would like to know why Vero didn’t like most of here family. What did they do to her to make her stay in her room and not want to come up except when her boyfriend with the low rider came over. The only people in the family that Vero seemed to talk to or even wanted anything remotely to do with was Joey and Rachael. Why did she not like Billy?