Parrot In The Oven
Throughout Parrot in the Oven mi vida by Victor Martinez there are stories of a young chicano male living in poverty with a dysfunctional family unable to provide examples that every child needs growing up. The child is faced with dealing with the death of his grandmother, his sister's miscarriage, and initiation into a local gang. Many of the experiences that Manuel lives through were also experienced by Victor Martinez growing up. In a sense, Victor Martinez is using this group of stories to tell the reader the lessons he has learned growing up from such a poverty stricken childhood.
The major lesson in this story is when Manuel is being initiated into a gang and is forced to partake in a robbery of an old woman. While Manuel does not actually have anything to do with taking the woman's purse he is witness to the robbery and is run down by the cops. When the cops question Manuel and man selling papers in the street defends him in saying that Manuel had nothing to do with the......
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