A Comparison Of Los Vendidos And Freakish Times

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Los Vendidos Vs Freakish Times Theme For my final essay I choose to compare and contract Luis Valdez “Los Vendidos” and Lesli-Jo Morizono “Freakish Times”. “Los Vendidos” is an Acto which is a realistic play that dramatized the social or economic problems of Chicanos. In any case, the play transmits mixed impressions about what the American culture expects from the Mexicans, which additionally sustains the racial generalizations coordinated at this nationality. Stereotyping is more than a form of social discrimination; it is a lifestyle by which the dominant majority and the vulnerable minority live, abiding to the socially shaped misconceptions about how minorities should be or how they should act. Morizono’s “Freakish Times” is more Magic …show more content…

The models can be controlled by purchasers by a straightforward breaking or snapping of the fingers flagging certain particular charges. A significant part of the activity natural in the play spins around one of the real characters, the secretary, who in the play is given the name of Miss Jimenez. She in the start of the play starts discussion with the proprietor of the store in this presented as Honest …show more content…

This play starts with the picture of a burial ground on a cloudy day. An old lady is meandering around this burial ground while sniffing the air. She achieves an open grave, hangs over it, grabs an arm and sniffs it. A young lady is inside this open grave, and when she sees the old lady, she asks her what year it is. The old lady lets her realize that it is the twenty-fifth year after "the" torment. The young lady is experiencing serious difficulties recollecting things and she gets some information about the torment. The old lady, in the wake of setting a cover on the ground and taking out sustenance from a container, starts to educate her concerning the torment that came to pass for the earth. Prior to the torment, and about the season of the old lady's introduction to the world, the fallen angel had secured the earth with his cover. There was no place to live, and the old lady herself had grown up inside a whale's tummy. climax The climax of this play would be when we find out the the sellout would be Ms. Jimenez who is, herself, a Chicana who has been so inculcated in the standard American way that she doesn't understand to which degree her solicitations are obtrusively supremacist and segregating. In “Freakish Times” The mother explained how hideous the new born baby was, an outcast, one who couldn’t have survived without all her senses. Love is blind and we all yearn to fill in the missing pieces

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