Overarching message



Ramon Nayarez
September 20, 2019



                                                              Overarching message

    The overarching message from Master's Tools, and When You Leave Take Your Pictures With You
is that they all have in common being treated unfairly due to their color of their skin. People of color have been in pictures showing their hard labor and showing off their great buildings and put the colored janitor as part of their great hierarchy.
    Race has played a factor in this stories and the hierarchy that is visible from miles away is shown in the verses they write. " White wimmin are oppressed; they have been 'colonized' by white boys, just as third world people have." When I saw woman being written as wimmin just took my way of thinking to another level. It showed me that woman need their own identity and do not need to be valued only if they derived from the word man. If white wimmin are being colonized by white BOYS also shows how men with childish ideas are seen by conquering wimmin and third world countries.
    Also "How to Tame a Wild Tongue" is an overarching message to the other stories. The quote 
"en boca serrada no entran moscas" (in closed mouth, flies do not enter) shows how a person is better off with staying quiet to a situation. Latin women have to stay quiet, and only gossip between them. This story starts with a dentist trying to take a tooth out, and shows how the tongue of the person by nature pushes away the dentist tools, and keeps trying to fight the outsider and resist to something that does not belong in the mouth of the patient. The only way that tongue is going to stop resisting is if it gets cut off (Top Pg. 54). 
   These stories have been showing us how denigrating it is to be a person of color and almost to be ashamed of where you work, your language, your color, and your culture. It really is complicated to keep one's essence, character and even spirit, and loose it to another race's demands.






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