Dorothy Allison's Context Analysis

While I was reading the passage Context, by Dorothy Allison, I realized that I the just like her I had been judged just because I was a Latin woman. In fact I had went though something so similar because of many traditions my family has had. Just like Allison, when her lover called her families’ accent a “dialect,” my family was called crazy simply because we like to hold massive parties to celebrate or the way our family spoke to one another. (Paragraph 3,Allison) The reason why I relate so well with this passage is because I too don’t believe in being judge just by seeing or hearing certain things. I believe that if you should job me, or my family, it shall be after you have gotten to know the real us. This is why I will let you know the time I was judged for “wasting my parents money,” on an event that I will always cherish throughout my life.

As a child I never really noticed that my life was just a slight different from other “normal girls.” My family and my neighborhood had always been filled with many families that were similar to ours. So seeing how my life had been filled with many Hispanic and Latinos around me at all times I never thought of how others would view our many traditions. I would say that like many Hispanics we see our crazy, dancing, fun-loving families as the norm. However after many moves and many changes of friends I started start to notice that the way my family was
Like I said, for some having this coming of age party is point-less and wasteful, but if you knew how the girl or family you were telling truly felt would you still say this. Some would and would even tell us that we are were insane and we need to go get that fixed right away, but to those that would take away the time to see how much this means to a fourteen year old girl thank you. Now that I have explained something so valuable to my life to you would you still judge me the same