Literacy Narrative “Nothing is said of the silence that comes to separate the boy from his parents” (Rodriguez 69”). Silence. Silence is powerful. Silence, in a dramatic movie to make someone sit on the edge of their seat wondering what is about to happen. Silence, at a funeral of a loved one to grieve for the loss. Silence of the child who is witnessing their mother talking with the teacher about their bad behavior and thinking in their head “oh boy I’m going to be in trouble”. The silence of the kid who was bullied for several years. That last sentence about silence, that was about me. Once I hit the third grade, the silence had begun. Since kindergarten my best friend was a girl, and at that age most the time boys had boy best friends and girls had girl best friends, but …show more content…
I was different. I bonded with girls better than boys at first. The first couple years of school, kindergarten until second grade everything was fine. When I went into third grade is when everything was about to take a hard turn into the wall. The older kids started noticing I only hung out with girls. After that they started calling me names at recess and whenever they saw me in the halls or in the bathroom. My name from third grade to seventh grade was no longer “Miguel Antonio Hinojosa” it was “Migay”. I was called gay even though I was straight, all because I had more female friends than male friends. Now being called gay was it, but being called gay and “Migay” was something that made me think having and expressing my emotions was something wrong for boys. It made me feel like I was being a boy the wrong way. What boy should think he is