__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.