What Is The Theme Of Mexican Whiteboy By Matt De La Pena

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Mexican Whiteboy is written by Matt De La Pena. Some informal background on both the book and author is that Mexican WhiteBoy was written by Matt De La Pena. The book was publish on August 1, 2008 by Delacorte Press. “This book topic, genre, and book type are sports and martial arts (topic), family life (genre), and fiction (book type).” Unknown reason why he wrote M. WB, but after reading M. WB I can infer that De La Pena wrote this to show how life on streets is different than home . For example, the way the characters acted are like the cholos. De La Pena has a unknown birthday and year, but he was born at San Diego, California. Just like Danny (the main protagonist in M. WB), De la Pena father is Mexican and his mother is white. De La …show more content…

The main characters are Danny (“tall, skinny, not build, long arms, half-Mexican and white, can’t speak Spanish, and 16 years old”), Sofia (shorter than Danny, skinny, speaks Spanish, acts like a tomboy, has a love-hate relationship with Uno ((going to explain who he is in a second)), both Danny and her are cousins, and she is I think 16 too), and Uno (known real name, 16 years old, Afro-Mexican, very dark, has a friendship ((not at first)) with Danny, and also has a love relationship with Sofia). The conflict with Danny is internal because he wishes to see his father, whom he thinks is in Mexico. The rising action is that Danny gets punched by Uno when he accidentally hits Manny (Uno’s special little brother) with a baseball bat. The climax is when Danny defends Uno who was about to get beat up seriously by Danny’s Uncle, Ray, and somehow from that point they become friends. The falling action is when Danny starts helping Uno get money, so that Uno can live with his real father, Senior. They win many matches because Uno tells Danny that he has a special talent. The resolution is that Danny is going to see his father in jail with the help of Uno and Uno didn’t admanage to get 500 bones (yes they call it bones instead of money), but still Senior still took him in and got him a train ticket that’ll take Uno from National City to Oxnard, …show more content…

this is one of Edgar Allen Poe quotes and it’s true. It goes well with this story (or just goes well for Senior). 2)”De la Pena does an excellent job of combing the streets with the sport”-Kirkus. For that one, I mean I know it’s in the back of the book, but still I mean when I readed it gave me a thought that “hey this story is going to be dealing with street life and sports.” 3) “Money ain’t nothin’ but a rabbit in a hat, Uno. It’s an illusion. A trick up Uncle’s Sam’s sleeve. Advertisers make it out to be this big thing in America so we’ll buy their fancy cars and their big-ass sailboats and their high-end radio equipment, but it’s just paper. No different than the napkin you holdin’ in your hand, Uno.” And this just..it felt right for some reason. At the end of money it’s just paper, right? Is it an illusion that makes us worry? But do we really need money? Of course, I mean you couldn’t survive without it. I mean yeah it’s paper but it get’s our needs and

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