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Chapter 2 Felices días Tío Sergio

Chapter 2 Felices días Tío Sergio. Characters. Lidia Andres Quique Mami Tia Ele Sara F. Tio Sergio Manuel Sosa. Family Influence. Tia Ele stories of Europe Lack of encouragement to travel to Latin America Stereotypes of Latin Americans

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Chapter 2 Felices días Tío Sergio

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  1. Chapter 2 Felices días Tío Sergio

  2. Characters • Lidia • Andres • Quique • Mami • Tia Ele • Sara F. • Tio Sergio • Manuel Sosa

  3. Family Influence • Tia Ele stories of Europe • Lack of encouragement to travel to Latin America • Stereotypes of Latin Americans • Importance of education • Use of travel as motivation for education

  4. Lidia out with her mother • Shows a genuine lack of sociability • Lidia states that the children are changing but it is directed inward • Partially family influence • Partially Television • Alienated from her culture –food-Americanized

  5. Adolescence • Children work with Nati and earn money • Developing sexuality • Curiosity about members of the opposite sex • Exchange of books between Andres and Lidia to learn about the other sex • Limited knowledge of sex

  6. Children seek to find out about sex in books and in films • Lidia finds out the cultural differences in the expectations of men and women • Feels as if she is an outcast • Feels even closer to Tío Sergio. • Wonders if he is an outcast as well

  7. Connections to culture • Meeting Manuel • Both of them attracted to merengue frowned upon by grand parents/[parents • Lidia starting to feel a connection to her Puerto Ricanness • Still does not understand-confused

  8. Watches Sergio and Mama Sara dance to song Felices Dias • Song is sad-nostalgia • Reminder of happier days past- name of the text-foreshadowing

  9. Identity Confusion • Lidia is confused • She has not performed in her expected role as a young woman • She is to be non sexual • Males are expected so to be as the have “el lobo por dentro” • Confused about her role in her religion • Feels alienated from her family, from the Church and from the righteous.

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