Juan Felipe Herrera The Notebooks of a Chile Verde Smuggler
Page: 136
“All that is over too. Tortilla Flats is out of cash for the homeless, the lonely, the lost and abandoned sons and daughters of these ragged misshapen streets. Ask the governor.”
This quote reflects the feelings of those society chooses to forget. It is easy for a governor to cut funding for welfare. People easily turn a blind eye if it means lower taxes. Besides it is their own flat they are poor right, or so society often tells itself. The point Juan makes is that it is not just funds, money, numbers it is lives. It is a little bit of good in hard difficult lives.
Juan Felipe Herrera The Notebooks of a Chile Verde Smuggler
Page: 144
Oyeme, Mamita - I Am That Paper
“I am that paper, I am those words now...”
In my option this quote is Juan talking about his mother’s “address book”. Not just this line, but the whole entry. He is saying that he is what she wrote. As a writer Juan identifies himself through his writing, and now after finding her journal he writes like she does. He has become her writing- he has become her.
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