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Hoyt Street
The autobiographic work Hoyt Street by Mary Ponce describes in intimate detail what it was like growing up in a Hispanic family inside the United States of America. Even though the author is relating stories from her experiences going as far back in time in the 1940s, she is able to relate to the present audience as though a comrade in a common historical moment. The crux of the story seems to be the prejudices and discrimination that will impede her life but which are just beyond the reach of comprehension to a child age 8-13. On the cusp of her understanding are the facts that her best shoes are stained and that she works in the field and that there are some businesses where people like her are unwelcome, but this knowledge does not permeate deep enough to affect her. By presenting the story this way, author Ponce allows the reader to experience this distress through the eyes of a child and bear witness to how time allows the blinders to be removed and adulthood...
Rather she weaves in information about her heritage throughout the book so that it adds textuality to her character. This book could have been any child growing up during the 1940s in the United States. The fact that this Ponces live in a Hispanic-American household serves as background information to the small events and observations that make up the plot of the story. Yet, at the same time, the Hispanic-ness of the character and of her family also is allowed to permeate the entirety of the book. For example, Ponce blends Spanish and English phrases seamlessly within the same sentences, as people in bilingual homes often tend to do. Instead of addressing the…
Works Cited:
Ponce, Mary Helen. Hoyt Street: an Autobiography. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico,
1993. Print.
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