my favorite vignette was Red Clowns because it didn't give a lot of details but there was enough information to send a very poweful message. esperanza was raped and she didn't want to remember what happened. No where in the text it is written that she is raped but one can imagine that it happened when she says that she doesn't want to remember and when the guy grabbed her and said "I love you spanish girl." it also said that everything started to whirl around. she also expressed contempt against sally for not being there to help her when she was so vulnerable.
this text is very simple, short, and easy to read. AP reading doesn't mean long and complicated books. this text showed us many different sides to writing. For example, i didn't know what a vignette was before i read the house on mango street. It showed how the author can make the reader can imagine how the narrator is like and even their age from the sentence structure, word choice and even punctuation.
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