Puerto Rico Essay

Compared to how the U.S was developing into a powerful country, Puerto Rico was a very poor place in the 1940s. If you were to look up a picture of New York in the 1940’s, you’d see that it’s quite similar to how it is nowadays in the sense that you see a lot of taxis/cars, a lot of businessmen, and a lot of skyscrapers. In the 1940’s, cities like the one I just mentioned didn’t exist in Puerto Rico, just a lot of countryside, therefore, there were a lot of mountains, a lot of farm animals, and the beautiful Puerto Rican beaches. Sadly, almost everyone in those times were male chauvinists, as well as in some states in the U.S. There was always this stereotype that women couldn’t do anything except having kids and raising them. In Puerto Rico, the men were the ones in charge of bringing an
Sadly, in Puerto Rico’s history, Europeans brought Africans to be enslaved and tortured and I found myself feeling sympathy for Jim quite often. But, I was able to feel sympathy towards him because I know a lot of the things that slaves like him had to go through to be able to survive because of my history and my culture. We Puerto Ricans have a mix of a lot of races in our blood, so a lot of us try to learn as much as possible about the ones we know of. I definitely think that my upbringing, culture, and history affect the way I criticize books and other aspects in life. Every person has a different view on a same subject, like in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. There are persons that probably found interests on certain aspects of the book, but there are others that liked other aspects, we’re all different, and every critique is unique. The purpose of a critique is to find a new perspective on the matter, so we can continue to learn new aspects of the same subject, if anything, that’s what critiques like Sanford Pinsker and Tom Quirk’s taught