Chapters 4-6

Destiny DeSilva

ENG 1121

 

Reflection #2

Reading along chapters 1-3 we see that Yunior went through a tough time growing up as a kid. He went through verbal and some physical abuse from his father, watching his father cheat on his mother, his brother being very mean to him, growing up poor with his mother and brother, having girlfriend problems, hormones flowing, and not having his father with him growing up. Growing up for him was not easy and he managed with them as he got older was a good way to go about with life. Selling drugs, doing drugs, having sex with his girlfriend and feeling confused about the love he has for her, and the relationship with his brother not well balanced. Yunior’s life has made a huge turn throughout the next 3 chapters.

In Boyfriend, it talks about Yunior’s different girlfriends and he speaks in 3rd person throughout the entire chapter. In the chapter it states “Boyfriend got himself to the hallway I was already in the apartment. Girlfriend would not stop crying. Twice she stopped, she must have heard me moving around right about her and both times I held my breath until she started up again.”  Yunior explains how his girlfriend would consistently do things to get his attention. All his girlfriends impacted him differently throughout his life and none of them spoke Spanish, which was really shocking to him. He learned something with every woman he was with. But as time passes by, Yunior meets other people along the way

In the chapter of Edison, New Jersey Yunior has a work friend named Wayne. They both work as delivery men and they both sell drugs. They work as partners to sell drugs and they both  talk about their experiences on the new job they have. They talk about who and where they deliver furniture to, and the type of interactions they have with the customers. As they work during their jobs hours, selling drugs is a side business for them. The type of woman they meet while they’re selling and how Wayne would entertain them. Also, towards the end of the chapter they meet a customer named Pruitt. As they go along to do their jobs, Pruitt’s wife and Yunior starts talking about life in general while they’re on their way to Jersey.

In the chapter of How to date a Brown Skin girl it talks about, in my opinion, a type of routine to trying to get a girl, meeting her parents, the job of being a boyfriend and things you should do and shouldn’t do as a boyfriend and meeting her parents. In the chapter it states “Shower, comb, dress. Sit on the couch and watch TV. If she’s an outsider her father will be bringing her, maybe her mother. Neither of them want her seeing any boys from the Terrace-people get stabbed in the Terrace-but she’s strong-headed and this time will get her way. If she’s a white girl you know you’ll at least  get a hand job.” In my opinion I think men have things hard when it comes to meeting the girl’s parents and these high expectations that are needed to be exceeded as a boyfriend. The same goes for women, she needs to know how to cook, clean, dress well and know how to take care of a man, however men’s expectations are very high.