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What strikes you about how the older narrator-Yunior narrates this scene?  What do you notice about what he tells us and what he doesn’t? Make at least 3 observations

 What parallel’s do you see between Ysrael and nine-year old Yunior?

     Now compare the perpetrators:  what stands out when you hold side by side the pig that tore off Ysrael’s face and the man who molested Yunior?  How are they similar?  How are they different?  How about when you add Rafa and Yunior into the mix as perpetrators?

   What sorts of “scars” do we have in the bus-scene?  How do they compare with the scars Ysrael keeps below his mask?  How does the narrator handle them, and how does that compare to Ysrael’s mask?

1. As I read, one thing that I noticed was that Diaz is utilizing a misconception in the text about Ysrael in order to pull in the reader or really hook them on to the current situation. In the story, the author seems to blend how the characters speak  into the other words in the text so we wouldn't notice the tone of a certain line and the effect it has on a character. It also makes the text seem unexpected and surprises the reader when something happens. An example is when the story mentions how Yunior gets molested on the bus. Another affect of this writing style is that the author makes it seem like when Yunior's father cheats on his mom, how it is casual and isn't a big deal.

FFW 1: During the story, something that I noticed was that Yunior feels different with Ysrael than how Rafa feels. In the story, Ysrael is introduced in a not so nice way because in the way he is introduced, it doesn't really clearly indicate how he struggles with a disability and this makes him feel alone just like how Yunior felt when he throws up in his dad's car, not eating at the party, and getting abused.


FFW 2: What had emotionally and physically damaged Yunior was when he was in the bus and then he got molested. This isn't something very pleasant and it is especially scaring for a child to go through. This causes Yunior to feel a certain way because every time that he looks back at it, he just remembers how it feels and it makes him feel like he has no one on his side and how he is left all alone. This is also similar to Ysrael's scars that he has from being abused that cause him to feel a similar way.