When I Was Puerto Rican Analysis

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Life is fair. But someone might be born as a prince while other be born as a homeless child. Anyhow, life is fair. In the biography “When I Was Puerto Rican” written by Esmeralda Santiago, Esmeralda uses her hard work to change her life and reach her dream shows that even she was born poor. In Puerto Rican, everyone has a nickname for family and friends. Esmeralda’s nickname is Negi. Negi was born in a Puerto Rican family with more than ten kids. Because she is the eldest, she needs to take care of all her brothers and sisters. She needs to live her life in the complaints from her siblings about how strict is she and that she is not her mother Ramona. Also, needs to live to her life be treated as an irresponsible high-paid professional babysitter whenever she makes a single …show more content…

Negi doesn’t accept the fact she must stay back a grade, she already got a good grade when she was a seventh-grader. Even though she truly knows her English is poor, but she uses her scramble English argues with the principle bravely only with the paper in Spanish representing the good grade she always has. Eventually, the principal makes an agreement that she can be in eighth grade, but only until Christmas, after that, it depends on what she succeed. Esmeralda Santiago is technically an eighth grader, but she gets send to the disabled class. Even she is in the disabled class, but she learns as much she can learn from all the teachers. She spends all her spare time on memorizing words and trying to read English books. By Christmas, Esmeralda is one of the best students in the school, even on English, history, and social studies. So the principal finally fully approves her. One day, her homeroom teacher Mr.Brown asks her what is her dream. She realizes that she doesn’t have a dream. She keeps thinking then realizes that she wants to become an actress. She signs up an audition for the performing art

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