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Monday, May 21, 2007

Juan Felipe Herrera – Notebooks of a Chile Verde Smuggler

pg. 152 – 174

1) “Wanna B.: A grand prize of one hundred kilos of PRI cigars made of the finest blend of Zapatista tobacco leaves and a round trip for two to the Mayan rain forest in Chiapas – where you’ll stay at the luxurious PEMEX (Please Exit Mildly Except for Xenophobic) Motel” (156).

I thought that the people are making fun of how American game shows by advertising things where people don’t really want to go unless if they are desperate. I do not understand why this is in the book because it is a script from a television show. It do not have anything that relates to him or apart of his life.


2)
Wanna B.:[firecrackers, wheel spin] Here we go: “A self-taught Republican correspondence course for correcting over-reaching tongue action in the face of capital gains

Costestant: [crunch] What is Hisp-my-lips!

This also makes me feel like he is making fun of Americans or they people are making fun of American because they do not put American in a good way. They are amused by how America is and act. I guess he is using this to show that America maybe powerful, not everyone likes them and will respect them.