Saturday, March 31, 2012

Guava

This books prologue is How to eat a Guava is often cited as good literature. The narrator in When I was a Puerto Rican wants to be a Jibaro.

As a child of four, she is exposed to many different smells. Fresh oregano, annatto, lemongrass bushes that she went under, when she needed comforting. Extracted smells of rosemary oil.

She writes about how the city world is different from the village from the viewpoint of a child who is used to picking fruits from the tree directly where now she has to see those fruits for sale. While earlier she listened for 'coqui tree frog to sing me(her) to sleep but instead heard cars backfiring, people fighting, music blaring..'

1 comment:

Tommy Lee said...

I am afraid that this statement is not correct "This books prologue is How to eat a Guava is often cited as good literature.".

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