Bronx Perspectives:Take 1-02-15-16

     The "Bronx Masquerade" by Nikki Grimes is about a class in high school filled with students that are different and similar to one another. Different and similar in ethnicities, likes, dislikes, hobbies, etcetera.  All of the students have some kind of story that show who they really are and how they act in front of the others. In Open Mike Fridays that is where they share poems that show the real them. Not the person that everyone else sees them as.

     The characters that I have decided to differentiate are Raul with Diondra and Gloria with Lupe. One similarity that Raul and Diondra have is they both like to make art. They enjoy to paint and express themselves through their art. The difference between them is that Raul is not afraid to show his art, on the other hand Diondra doesn't like to show her art. When Diondra does show her art she doesn't sign it. Diondra's dad does not approve of her because he feels that her height, six feet tall, was wasted on her.

     The difference between Gloria and Lupe is that Lupe believes that having a child young is the only way to have someone who will love her. Lupe does not know the sacrifices she is going to have to make in order to have a healthy living child. Gloria loves her baby boy, Angel, but regrets the actions she did. Her life now revolves around Angel and not herself. Gloria is trying to explain to Lupe that having a child so young isn't so easy, but Lupe doesn't understand.