" If she was to "stare at the eyes of the saints long enough, they move and wink" at her, which makes her "a sort of saint" too (Mericans, p.31). Michele's big family is presented having really strange names generally depicting each person outside look such as Auntie Light-skin, Uncle Fat-face, Uncle Baby, Uncle Old or Auntie Cuca.
The repetition of "We must not" We cannot" We cannot" We must not"" depicts her boring feeling of waiting outside the church. She just watches her brothers, Junior and Keeks, playing around. For a while she is deep in thinking of being Ming the Merciless or the Mud People. She does not try to make up her mind but it is for sure that she does not want to be the Mud People. She refrains from shedding tears as "crying is what girls do" (Merican, p.31). The struggle in her mind questions us and we come up with different guesses. Perhaps somebody made some bad insults about her; or she might be fighting against an extremely difficult situation in her daily life. The idea that she does not want to be the Mud People reveals a little bit of this gir
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The repetition of "We must not" We cannot" We cannot" We must not"" depicts her boring feeling of waiting outside the church. She just watches her brothers, Junior and Keeks, playing around. For a while she is deep in thinking of being Ming the Merciless or the Mud People. She does not try to make up her mind but it is for sure that she does not want to be the Mud People. She refrains from shedding tears as "crying is what girls do" (Merican, p.31). The struggle in her mind questions us and we come up with different guesses. Perhaps somebody made some bad insults about her; or she might be fighting against an extremely difficult situation in her daily life. The idea that she does not want to be the Mud People reveals a little bit of this girl"tms personality. Michele is nurturing a burning ambition of identifying herself. Toward the end of the story we have some idea about Mexican culture. "Ladies don't come to church dressed in pants. And every body knows men aren't supposed to wear shorts." (Mericans, p.31) Thus, new-coming people are easily identified in this area. The appearance of two new people at the church turns out to be the most noticeable to the kids. The sound coming from a
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