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.