tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14543969.post5902233191406422696..comments2024-03-19T21:28:29.673-07:00Comments on Pluma Fronteriza - Your Chicano Literature News Headquarters: El Paso Writers Update for Week Ending Dec. 18Raymundo Eli Rojashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13735199812113933107noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14543969.post-33627030560448981172010-12-19T12:15:11.149-07:002010-12-19T12:15:11.149-07:00I take your comment regards posting of link and ex...I take your comment regards posting of link and excerpt to the review of Dagoberto Gilb's "The Flowers" on "Daisy's Blog." I'd encourage you to post your comment on her review directly to "Daisy's Blog": http://daisyrodriguez0429.blogspot.com/2010/12/flowers-final-daft.html<br /><br />As "Daisy's Blog" is called "Daisy's Blog" and is on blogspot.com, I'd have to disagree with you that it a blog whether it be from a young girl or not.<br /><br />Whether she's a freshman or not, or whether she posts her paper is relevant only to in that she is a freshman who posted her paper.<br /><br />Nevertheless, you have good commentary on "The Flowers."Raymundo Eli Rojashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13735199812113933107noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14543969.post-23217162729125947832010-12-19T11:32:09.324-07:002010-12-19T11:32:09.324-07:00women are the major characters in the flowers and ...women are the major characters in the flowers and heroes of the story. of the four major female characters, the mother is clearly strong (which was pointed out in a glowing review of the flowers in the washington post, online too), besides others. and it would be hard to paint the two young women as "weak" when they are in such tough circumstances, which is the setting for the whole novel. of the two male characters (besides the narrator sonny), one is racist (the stepfather who sonny steals money from), other is a racist abusive jerk. what you have here is not even a "blog" but a final paper put online by a student struggling in a freshman comp class. it appears that a professor assigned the novel to read. <br />r garciaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com