Ordinary Girls is a first-person memoir about poor lives, wrong choices, and the culture of violence, drugs, and crime. Jaquira Diaz talks concerning their young family living in Puerto Rico and about their attempt to get to Miami Beach for a better world. Diaz portrays the difficulty of a hard life and what it takes to make it better with his history of a mentally disabled mother, sexual assault, depression, and finding her own sexuality.In Page #61 it says” The five of us were the kind of poor you could feel in your bones, in your teeth, in your stomach. Empty-refrigerator poor. Sleeping-on-the-floor-until-somebody-threw-out-a-sofa bed poor. Stirring-sugar-into-water-and-calling-it-lemonade poor. And then we’d take off again, like runaways. One apartment, and then another, and then another, never staying long enough to put up a picture, leaving while the place still smelled like the people who lived there before us.” They came from the struggle and Diaz and her family tried to get themselves out of it. Diaz took the wrong route in her life and she tries to overcome it.
Hey Kedwin, I like the structure of your response, which starts with a summary and begins to get more specific later on. Since I’m reading Fairest, learning about the details of Ordinary Girls intrigues me to know more. Since both books talk about personal issues, I think its a great way to understand ones own issues.
I really like your reply and how much you summarized Jaquira’s hardships with her mother and the hard life she’s living. The quote you picked is a excellent one and something that really hits home showing just how much she struggled with moving from place to place all the time. Especially with her mother who suffers from mental health issues.
Hey Kedwin, just wanted to say that I really liked how you organized your response to Diaz’s descriptive sentence that you pulled. it shows how much thought you’ve put into that quote, almost like you’ve been waiting to use it for a good minute before you decided to post.