Michael Rose
English 101
'Fender Bender' Short Response
September 29,2009
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The life which I cannot matriculate to is empty philosophies in rivers
I argue over whether I have dipped into twice, over religions
I hate for the philosophies they cannot uphold, over religions I love
For the philosophies which they do, but over which I cannot comprehend without dis-
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I was happy
tonight;
and though the fire could have burned me
like a moth
...
I have moist thoughts of you;
the weather changes when I
think of you
...
Her hand runs down my face
like a cloth, softly molding to its contours,
cradling pains like a mother and reminding
me of love
...
How do I bury
what is not dead,
but alive inside of me?
How do I kill
...
I feel like
chapped lips,
dehydrated from a lack of care,
living recluse, absent,
...
The world is not what you think.
However, the world is not without comprehending;
the first incomprehensible fact, though,
is so incomprehensible, nonetheless, we try our bests-
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The intimidating black
And emptiness
Of fearful surmise
Is permeated only by your footsteps,
...
Where answers lay
Is where our roots
Most abundantly age,
At the lowest and most
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Where is the answer
Supposed
To be blown in the wind?
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Michael Rose
English 101
'Fender Bender' Short Response
September 29,2009
The short story, 'Fender Bender, ' by Ramon 'Tiangus' Perez,
portrays the prejudiced state in which the contemporary society in
America regards illegally immigrated peoples. The anecdotal
experience which Perez divulges furthermore demonstrates an inter-
cultural conflict between Mexican immigrants: those who have become
Americanized and those who have clung onto the the cultural
idiosyncrosies of Mexico. In the short story, this conflict is catalyzed
over language-preference divergencies between a 'Chicano' cop and
a Mexican semaritan. On the other hand, however, the role which is
carried out by the 'Anglo-saxon' male, who is involved in the fender
bender with Perez, semphores a present-day change which is taking
place in those outlooks held by the base, Caucasian population within
America; the 'Anglo-saxon' insists against those legal complications
with which the 'Chicano' cop desires to have pass upon Perez.
Ultimately, the corruption of the system succeeds, however; the cop
forces Perez to lock his car keys within the vehicle, and proceed to
walk away from the vehicle, into the distance and down the block.
Perez is rescued by a meager hanger on a a street corner.