Summary Of The Red Convertible By Louise Erdrich

Every individual forms a part of a social environment in which they come across many different circumstances, that affect the way they behave and respond to different scenarios. Starting in the childhood, when they become part of the school community and within this community, they are exposed to different ideas and behaviors. Furthermore, the environment in which people grow up,and how they develop themselves in it plays an role in how they are affected and respond to extreme situations within society as well as the way other people interact with them. For instance, Louise Erdrich in her story “The red Convertible” presents to us the story of Henry and Lyman Lamartine two brothers, who spend all summer of driving around the US in a red convertible.

Ernesto Quiñonez present to us the story of Sapo and his classmates who were mistreated and denigrated by one of their teachers whose last name was Blessington at Julia Burgos Junior High school, and how this affected them psychologically and emotionally. One of Sapo’s classmates’ states ”the English teacher, Mr. Blessington. He kept telling us boys we were going to end up in jail and that all the girls were going to end up hooking. He would say these things out loud and the administration would not do anything“ (120). In this quote, the author shows us to which extent was the emotional stress caused by the teacher to the students and how the administration of the school did not protect the students from this kind of abuse, this a way how our community turn his back to those who needed more the students. As a result of the lack of response from the school officials the life of Sapo change as stated by Julio,”That year something happened to Sapo. He had always been Sapo but that year, after biting Blessington, he started turning into someone who wasn’t afraid to die. If was the beginning of the adult Sapo“ (125). In this quote, the author is showing us how the Sapo’s behavior had changed after he responds to his teacher attacks by biting him. As a consequence of the emotional distress that Sapo suffer from the

On Henry story, we the author describes his emotional state as jumpy. In a turn of events, one-day Henry decides to spend time with his brother. ”I think it’s the old Henry again. … ’Got to cool me off!’ he shouts all of the sudden. Then he runs to the river and jumps in it. … ’My boots are filling’, he says. He says this in a normal voice like he just noticed and he doesn’t know what to think of it. Then he is gone“ (99). In this quote, the author describes to us what we can take as the way out that Henry decide to take in order to escape from the emotional burden of the memories of being in the war had left him and at the same time to relieve his family from being worried about him. In the same way, in Sapo’s story, the author shows the moment in the story when everything took a turn for the worse in Sapo’s life. The author states that ”… that’s when Blessington made the mistake of putting Sapo in a headlock… And that is when Sapo jumped him from behind. …. Sapo dug his teeth into the base of the teacher’s neck“ (124). In this quote, we see how the circumstances and the mistreatment of the teacher towards Sapo make him react and defend himself of the psychological and Physical abuse that he was exposed to. In addition to this reaction, Sapo’s live change from that day forward as this event mark his life. In this case, we see how the continued denigration from