Hunger of Memories book conclusion & La Bamba

This week we end with Richard Rodriguez's "Hunger of Memories" which is a very interesting story based on his life as a Mexican-American. His family thought that writing about his family's life was not a good idea but he felt comfortable with all the things he wrote about because that was his life, and that was how he grow up.

In the Wednesday class we started watching a movie called "La Bamba" which is most about how there are borders between the same family, for example Richie and Bob. In this movie, Richie loves to play guitar and he is part of a band with some friends. He decided to try singing alone and his mom helped him with his dream and after this an owner of a disc company asked him to record his songs and this is how his life starts to be pretty. As i can see, their mom is concentrated on Richie's life and his singer career and she doesn't cares about Bob's drug and alcohol problem. This fact is going to separate the family and cause problems, we will see.

This movie seems to be connected in a way with Hunger of Memories because Richie doesn't speak Spanish but he understands and he grew up in a Mexican family but living in the US.

I'm sure that we are going to enjoy this movie, and there is going to be a lot more comments about boundaries created in the scenes of the movie.