coca-cola and coco frio
...to Puerto Rico to look for something new, something that he had never seen or tasted before, Puerto Rican Culture. In both stories, there are similar experiences, such as lack of knowledege, and sarcastic. In “Coca-Cola and Coco Frio,” the people of that country are shown as ignorant because they don’t know what kind of good stuff they have in their own country. Instead of drinking their own beverage, “Coco Frio,” they prefer to drink an imported product, “Coca-Cola.” In the lesson, the kids are kind of ignorant too because they don’t know how to behave outside of their own world, Harlem. For example, when Sugar asks “ Can we steal?” (Bambara, 5). I think, that she asks that because maybe she ignores the consecuenses that she will have, if she does that or maybe because she thinks that to steal is something good. Both stories use sarcasm. For example, In the last stanza of “Coca-Cola and Coco Frio” the author uses sarcasm to demotrated to the Puerto Ricans that they are wrong, when they let themselves to be influenced by another culture instead of changing what they have in their own culture. In the other story, “The Lesson”, sarcasm is used too, when Flayboy says to another boy “You are a very bright boy.” “What was your first clue?” (Bambara, 35). I think, Flayboy says these words to this kid not because Flayboy thinks that he is bright and inteligent, but because Flayboy wants to make fun of him in front of the other kids. In the other hand, between these stories there are a lot of different experiences such as poverty, language, cultures. In terms of culture, we have to see the different ...