Ernesto Quinonez's Bodega Dreams

Do you think people’s spirit should be brought down just because they live in a low income community?. As you have seen in the everyday society how the minorities are judged for being in a low income community and are stereotyped by it as rapist and “dangerous” criminals.This is not only a portrayal of every life society but it’s also a portrayal of the society in “Bodega Dreams” by Ernesto Quinonez as it shows how people like Chino are judged by the superior people in the society just for living in a low income community and for being Hispanic. The book shows us more than once how Chino tries to beat the stereotypes and even how he ends up in the wrong path for just trying to become successful in his barrio and all the hardships he went

This can be seen in the characterization post on page 86 that says “He’d come to school in a suit and tell us that a man with a suit is a man that is valuable and that a man without a suit has no worth”. This quote shows us how Mr.Blessington always judged his students based on “their worth” knowing that they come from a low income community and that they cannot afford such luxuries as is why he says “a man without a suit has no worth” which he throws out as an indirect to his students, this brings down the spirit of their students on moving on into their educational path because they will now think that to society they are worthless just for not having a

As we can see in the characteristic quotes they show us how Mr.Blessington always put pressure on his students and made insults to them for living in a low income community and made them feel as if they are not welcomed outside their neighborhood and how the society wouldn’t accept them just for being “poor”. Meanwhile the conflict quotes quotes shows how the students get into the game that Mr.Blessington has installed for them, which makes them feel as if they are labeled in society and how they must become what people think they are in order to fit in. But the students will soon find out that all that was a paper background created by Mr.Blessington to fool them to believe that they were just rapist and criminals to stop them from becoming good citizens and to stop them from growing even more educationally and making their dreams a reality. Anything in this world can be achieved by hard work and determination and by breaking the social barriers you can let other people see that they can’t judge someone by their race nor the place they live in but by the words and actions of that person you can determine who they are. Don’t ever let no