Interprative Essay On Miguel Street

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Miguel Street, written by V.S Naipaul is a collection of short stories base on the narrator’s childhood recollections of events that occurred on Miguel Street. The book mostly gives vivid images in each short story focusing on each inhabitant’s ways to escape from their problem/secrets or their overall way of life. A major recurrent event is the physical abuse of women and children. Miguel Street where every character had unique characteristics trying new things to forget the past, but at the end the ugly past came back to them and left them in disillusionment. Communities are places where many things occur. All sort of things are observed that is good and bad. Miguel Street is a book that is a perfect example where characters are involved in these things and they give a lot of meaning to the book. Miguel Street is an amazing book that shows us how our uneducated societies behave in the everyday living where love is confused for other treatments and where a person would do things for that love, where people will discriminate because of they cannot be like others that have it good. I do not understand why there are so many women that let themselves into relationship that an ‘I love you’ is not a way of showing love, instead the physical abuses. In Miguel Street there was not one woman that was treated the way it was supposed to be, the men had machismo in them. They were sort of authoritarian toward women. “Mrs. Hereira said, ‘It’s a stupid thing to say to you or anybody else, but I like Toni. I love him.’ My mother said, ’Is a damn funny sort of love’” (104). Mr. Hereira loved Toni even though he abused her physically; she took everything he did just because she loved him. The crazy things people do just because they are in love. A world of racism is in what we live in today. Racism is brought out in a vivid manner in Miguel Street, where the white’ Americans’ are

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