__the importance and significance of art in the mexican -american culture tradtition includes human resources that artists have gathered form past times and their own observations. What is important is that the artists catch the very moment of what they are drawing or painting. The type of significance that their art gives to the world or so to speak for the East Los Angeles community is hope, faith, and prosperity. These differences are valued because when hard times come to minorities, which often do, they look for something or someone that can inspire and get them back on their feet.
__my favorite type of art is impressionism. This is because you can see how the artist takes so much time to make the perfect piece. In impressionism, artists capture the life of what they are drawing. For example, if there was this magnificent waterfall drawn by impressionists, then you will feel like if you are almost there. It is very capturing.

__The scene in which I performed in was the Saturday night dance. I played the role of the Pachuco. This specific scene involved about a wide range of characters. They include Henry and his boys, bertha, Della, and an unfortunate guest, rafas and his downy gang. Then, the 38th street gang, (Henry’s boys) are dancing and having a good time. Unexpectedly, Henry’s little brother, Rudy gets drunk. Rudy happens to get into an argument with a downy rifa member, rafas. Before you know it a big fight breaks out. In the end when Henry faces rafas, both carrying switchblades, rafas’s life is spared because Henry has become a better man.

I studied and tried to remember the song being sung by the Pachuco in the Saturday night dance. I felt pretty comfortable wit my performance. I thankfully had no slip ups. My groups’ strength was staging because we practiced and talked about where and how we would act on stage.

Studying this scene has given me a better understanding of this play because it helps to know how each character portrays others in the play. I learned the Pachuco life back in the 1940s. How they were treated unfairly, segregated in the courtroom, and accused for an unsolved murder. Studying this scene, for example, gave me character’s perspective of others at the dance.

Zoot Suit

__My reactions upon the book that we are reading, which is called Zoot Suit were minor. My reactions vary from surprised to angry. At first surprised because i did not realize there were such a thing as the Zoot Suit Riots. I was shocked to know what sort of things happened here in los angeles during World War II. For example, mexicans who wore Zoot siuts were known as mobstyers or in other words gangsters. They were ripped off their clothes and badly beaten by US marines. Angry, because so far in the book, the trial of the sleepy lagoon murder is being held. Henry, smiley, tommy, joey,and maybe a few more were convicted of a kiling in the sleepy lagoon. what makes me angry is that the judge, jury and about everyone else in the courtroom is against the mexicans who wore zoot suits and there hair combed back.

__i liked that Valdez uses spanglish to set the tone of the story. it makes us think that the play will be filled with a lot of slang and bad words. Valdez' use of language reflects on how the story will sound or turn out like if we were really back in the 1940s.
__he best captures the mood by usung a lot of profanity and slang.

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