Short Story 3
The short story I read was called American History and its about a Puerto Rican girl who was going to public number 13 high school. She didn’t fit in there and didn’t have any friends and she use to sit out on the fire escape and read her library books in the summer and the building she was staying in (El building) sat behind an old Jewish couple and felt as she was apart of there family. She knew when they would argue because she would sit and watch them every day.

The old Jewish man died and the woman moved out, so a boy named Eugene and his family moved into the house the Puerto Rican girl had a crush on Eugene the first time she seen him. She would look for him in school but they were on different sides of the school and one day she seen him but he walked passed like she wasn’t there and she start thinking maybe he doesn’t wanted speak first, so she decided to just speak to him the next time she seen him. She spoke to him and come to find out he was shyer than she was and he was blushing the whole time they were speaking. Eugene invited her to his house to study for a test, so she came down and knocked on the door and Eugene’s mother answer the door she wouldn’t let Eugene study with her because she stayed in El building and telling her "Eugene don’t want to study with you he’s a smart boy he doesn’t need help"

2. The subject is being treated different because where a person stays.
b. The theme is just because you stay in a rough place doesn’t mean your going to be a rough neck.
c. The author was revealing How people are treated different if they isn’t wealthy as there are
d. I agree with the author because there are a lot of people think they are better than others because they have more money.
3. "El Building which looked particularly ugly, like a gray prison, with its many dirty windows and rusty fire escapes"
4. My favorite movie is the Temptations and the subject is being a famous group and the theme is reaching there goals and going through obstacles. By showing the success and awards they won.