When I was Puerto Rican Blog #1

So pretty early on in the book, the author was out with her mother. She touched a hot metal wall and burned her fingers, earning the response of "That'll teach you. Never touch the wall on the sunny side" from her mother. I liked this line a lot because it reminds me of how I was as a little kid. My mom always tells me stories about how many times we went through situations similar to this, because I was the type of child that learned from their mistakes, rather than never making them. I think this was an important thing to add so early in the book, because it gives us readers an insight to the relationship between the author and her mother. Adding this line of dialog instead of just going straight into the part with her mother caring for her burn establishes the personality of her mother by showing that she isn't the type of parent that is going to let her child make these mistakes without any type of scolding, but at the same time isn't going to let her child go on without making sure she is okay. Adding this type of character detail is something I think is important to add in my memoir, especially about a character as important as a mother. The details about each character helps me relate the story to my life, which I think is an important part of memoirs like this as well. Each memoir has something special to teach, and its so much easier to learn that lesson when you can actually put yourself in the authors shoes and see yourself in that situation.