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Literary Review
The book Parrot in the Oven by Victor Martinez is a very capitaving story about a mexican-american boy who is trying to cope with the many problems around him. The main characters name is Manuel, also known as Manny. He is fourteen years old, living with family of five, and resides in the projects of Southern California. Manny's family struggles with many problems including poverty and many different types of abuse. The story is dynamic, dramatic, and alluring. The many different trials that Manny must face will have you reading this book from begining to end.
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2 comments:
Yes, this story is very stereotypical. Manny's family makes Mexican-American familes seem very poor. In the book when Manny's sister, Magda, got pregnant that was stereotypical because a lot of Mexican-American girls start families at early ages. Manny and his brother, Nardo, were very close and almost always together. That relates to stereotypical Mexican-American bothers because most of them are very close.
I agree that the story Parrot in the Oven is very stereotypical. The conflicts that the Hernandez family face is the same kind of problems that Mexican-American families face today.
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