![]() ![]() So you see, Sal was scared to death to challenge Tony. His brains might have also leaked out of his ears if you believed the rumors - which Sal absolutely did. The story ended with Mikey in the hospital for a week and a half with a severe concussion. Tony made Mikey’s life a living hell, and finally, Mikey decided to stand up to him. Three years prior, Tony had another target. That’s because Sal was afraid, and rightfully so. The only thing Sal hadn’t tried was standing up to him. He tried cajoling, enticing, persuading, coaxing, and even seducing him with his buddy Timmy’s older sister Lucille, she of the training bra. ![]() Sal tried everything, ignoring, reasoning, condoning, bargaining, bribing. If you were a newspaper reporter writing the story of Sal’s life, Tony would be defined as his “bully.” The proverbial fly in the ointment.įor the past two years, Tony made life miserable for Sal. There was only one slight problem, a wrinkle if you will. The art of riding a bicycle had been mastered. Third-grade proved to be manageable, both in grades and friendships. There were two healthy parents marvelously in love living inside his home. Muerte en una estrella / Shooting Star is a profoundly disturbing and moving denunciation of bigotry and discrimination.By any standard, Sal had a great life. Originally published in Spanish and now available for the first time in English, this classic of Mexican-American literature provides insight into the Chicano civil rights movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s. Songs of all types-symphonic, orchestral and protest-infuse the narrative: “We’ll summon the spirit of a poet so that he can adapt our people’s story through time and set it to music.” Elizondo’s short and tragic novel bears witness to la raza’s struggles for rights, whether in the fields, the work place or on college campuses. In other chapters, Óscar remembers traveling north with his parents as a young boy to pick crops and joining farm workers’ protest marches. ![]() On leave from Camp Gary, a youth training facility in nearby San Marcos, the two “strutting icons of Raza manhood worthy of a guitar ballad” are the novel’s principal voices as they lie dying. In this haunting novel about two young vatos, author Sergio Elizondo eulogizes Óscar Balboa and Valentín Rodríguez, who are sixteen and nineteen respectively when they are shot and killed by the police in Austin, Texas. ![]()
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