![]() ![]() The author mentions in her first paragraph that shes amused by her family who puts relaxers in their hair to get rid of that kinky curl they naturally have. Needing to suppress that part of myself is how I can relate to the author.Īlice Walker’s “Dreads” is about loving ones self and embracing who you truly are. When I was told not to tell my stories or to speak the language I was so comfortable with, I felt a sense of having to pretend to be someone I wasn’t. For those that don’t know, Pre-kinder is for kids who speak Spanish more dominantly and it’s to prepare them for English dominant classes. My teacher would not only get upset with me because I was telling “inappropriate stories” in class but because I was also speaking Spanish when I was told I could only speak English. When I would retell these stories, I would do so in Spanish because it was my first language and I couldn’t translate some of the words to English. I was a fearless kid so she would tell me scary urban legends that were told to kids to make them behave. I found myself relating to Aimee Nezhukumatahil’s “The Witching Hour,” because when I was in Pre-kinder, I would go to school and told all of my little friends about the bedtime stories my grandma would tell me. ![]()
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