The Protagonist in this story is Efrain. Efrain and his cousin are in the school library discussing SAT scores. Efrain got a 1650 SAT score, but still wants to take the test again, because he would like to go to an Ivy League college, like Harvard. Chingy, Efrain’s cousin got a 1560 on his SAT prep score, and wants to go to Howard. Chingy tells Efrain that he broke the school record, but Efrain’s says that Harvard is checking out a student that has an SAT score of 1650. Efrain plans to take the test again because he did so much studying and he wants to get a higher score. Chingy is online looking at high school rings, and Efrain decides that when he completes Harvard, is when he would get a ring on his finger.
Efrain and his mother are talking about colleges. Efrain shows his mother information about Yale, and she is so shock, that she doesn’t even know what to tell Efrain. Once Efrain brings up the idea of getting student loans, Efrain’s mother goes back to being herself again. Rubio, Efrain’s father has to sign a noncustodial form, because him and Efrain’s mother are separated. Efrain gets upset at the fact that Rubio would have to sign the form. Efrain’s mother tells him that she doesn’t like discussing money with Rubio, but they need the help, and Efrain’s mother said that Rubio would do anything to put Efrain through college. Efrain’s mother later on tells him that if it was for money, she would have never dated Rubio, much less married him.
Rubio causes so many problems within Efrain’s family. Rubio saw Efrain and his friend Nestor, who does sting, which is like selling drugs, anyway they were just hanging out, and Rubio happened to call Efrain, but Efrain didn’t respond. Rubio decided to call Efrain’s mother, and tell her that he saw Efrain hanging out with Nestor, and that when he called him, Efrain just ignored him. The next morning Efrain and his mother got into a big argument about the call that Efrain’s mother received while on work. Efrain took his sister to school, and they started talking about Rubio and his girlfriend, Awilda, that has a baby for Rubio. Efrain and his sister Mandy started asking each other questions, and it ended up with Mandy punching Efrain in the arm so hard that he said ‘’ow’’, and Mandy ran off to school up the street.
Efrain found a new job, which is going to be that he’s going to sell drugs on the streets with Nestor. I can’t believe that Efrain quit his tutoring job to sell drugs to people to take a prep class to get a higher score on the SAT. I understand that when push comes to shove, you have to take steps that you may not want to take to get somewhere; I don’t see the importance in selling drugs just to get a higher SAT score. It’s just not right. Selling drugs can lead to people taking some drugs themselves. Efrain selling drugs can really mess him up, and not just physically, but most importantly mentally. Efrain can end up dead, and that alone would make someone cry.
‘’ she’s been here since Katrina, and according to Leti, homegirl got kicked out of Mott Haven High School because she threw a chair in a teacher’s face.’’
(Rodriguez, 3)
I like the dialect of the speaker of this quote. I also think that it is funny, because what child in their right mind would through a chair at a teacher? I believe that, that kind of behavior is not normal. Event though you don’t like a teacher, it doesn’t mean that you have to go that far. I really wonder if the chair really hit the teacher in their face, because it would be funny, but then at the same time, that’s isn’t right and that girl who did that should receive some kind of punishment from doing that, because I don’t believe all in my six teen years of living, I ever once in my life time ever heard that. I also feel that if they really want to know that this information is true, they should ask the girl to her face, because the girl that told them this could be wrong and just wants to make people think that she is a bad girl, and not the one to hang around, or talk to.
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