Mexican Whiteboy By Matt De La Pena (2)

Ever since the time Uno knocked down Danny he's been going to Las Palmas Park to work on his pitching. One day Uno starts talking to Danny's cousin Sofia when they decide to walk over to Las Palmas Park to see Danny pitch. Sofia tells Uno that Danny comes down to Las Palmas Park everyday to work on his pitching. They watch him for a while and leave. Uno then comes back and tells Danny that he'll be his catcher. Danny is shocked. He's going to pitch to someone who gave him stitches on the back of his head. Danny pitches to Uno and after that they start getting along. After days of practicing on his Uno tells Danny that they should start betting on batters. By betting them that they can't hit the ball before Danny strikes out. There first hustle was at a near by high school. There were facing the best batter on the team named Carmelo. Danny's first pitch and it goes far away from Uno. Danny is thinking to himself is last year's baseball tryouts. Over and over he keeps on missing. And eventually the other leave with 40 bucks(Uno bet 20 bucks). Uno was shocked to see Danny pitch like that. They continue practicing for a few day until they do another hustle. Again Danny pitches far away from Uno. Uno then walks up to Danny and tells him that its not about him, its about his talent. Danny goes into his windup and pitches a fastball right into Uno's mitt. Strike one yelled Uno. Danny pitches another fastball into Uno's Mitt. Strike two yelled Uno. Danny pitches another fastball and right into Uno's mitt without having to move it. After that they keep on hustling others winning lots of money. Then one day they hustle the same person they started hustling with Carmelo. When Danny pitches to Carmelo he's shocked that he got a strike. After Danny strikes out Carmelo he tells Uno that he wants to go again. Danny strikes him out again and Carmelo says he wants to go again. Danny strikes hi out AGAIN and Carmelo says again. This time there playing for 180 bucks. Danny to Carmelo to get a strike. Uno looks back at Carmelo's friend JJ and see's one of them is close to the hat with the money. Danny pitches to Carmelo. Strike two. Uno see's JJ is even closer to the hat. He shoo's him off. Danny Pitches to Carmelo and strikes him out. Uno Looks back and see's JJ is running off with the money! Uno catches up to him and tackles him to the ground. Then Carmelo and his other friend gain up on Uno and Danny tells them to get off him him when two of them tackle him. Uno is fighting JJ to get the money back. Then some Mexican dude comes into the fight and fights Carmelo and his friends. Uno fights JJ to get the money out of his pocket and they leave. Uno is mad because before he strike him out one last time he told him after strike three to run off to the bus stop and that he'll run to the hat and get the money and catch up to him. Danny said that he couldn't let them hurt him. Uno then gives him half of the 180 bucks.

When I read to the part of Uno wanting to work with Danny it was shocking to me. Someone wanting to work with someone after they hurt them? Just surprising to me. At that I think its the climax of the story. Also how Danny stayed with Uno when he was fighting Carmelo and JJ. That just shows to me that they have bounded really well. There both saving money to see their fathers. Uno wants to go live with his father at Oxnard but needs 500 dollars. Danny wants to visit his father in Mexico and find out why he left.

Mexican Whiteboy By Matt De La Pena

Mexican Whiteboy by Matt De La Pena  is a book about a kid named Danny who goes to National City to visit his dad's family. When gets there his cousin Sofia introduces him to her friends when he notices at a near by field people are playing baseball. Danny's cousin Sofia notices that he's looking over at that the field she decides to taking him over there. When they get to the field the Derby is taking place that takes place at the baseball every Saturday. Sofia was talking to Uno who is like the main player at the Derby's and is the pitcher of his team. Sofia was telling Uno how Danny will homer anything he throws at him. The first pitch that Uno throws Danny hits over the roof(which is part of the game most homers over the roof wins) making it going over another roof. Uno can't believe his eyes. Danny hit the tennis ball over 2 houses. The second tennis ball that Uno throws Danny hits the tennis ball over both roofs again. The thrid ball goes even higher but not far as the last 2 only going over 1 roof. And the four pitch that Uno throws Danny hits it low almost hitting his hands that the bat slips from his hands going to the sidelines. The was caught by by one of the guys when Chico shouts "Yo, Man! The bat got Manny!(22) Manny is Uno's little brother. He was bleeding all over his face. Uno rushes to aid him. Uno rips off his Raider jersey and presses it against Manny's nose. He then leaves Manny in Chico's care and goes up to Danny telling him why he throw the Bat at his brother. And right there I was thinking to myself that I would say that I didn't know he was his brother and i would apologies. But since Danny was a person that didn't speak much he was say  I'm sorry quietly that Uno couldn't hear him. The next thing that happens is that he knocked by Uno. After that he had to get stitches on the back of his head.

Night By Elie Wiesel

       The book Night by Elie Wiesel was just written a few years after World War II. After World War II people didn't want to read books about the Jews experience in concentration camps. Around 10 years after Elie Wiesel was released from Auschwitz he published a book about his experience.
        What was different to other books about the work in concentration camps was this was the first book that I read that talks about pickaxing. Unlike in other books they talk about how working in the gas chambers, in the ovens, etc. Also is the first book that read about a father and son being able to see each other unlike other that were separated from their families. The experience that Elie went the with the beatings, the beatings he saw, especial the beating that killed he father. He was afraid that they will beaten so he lay silently on his bed while his father was being beaten.
         Its one of the most read book about the Holocaust along with Any Frank The Diary of a Young Girl and If This Is a Man by Primo Levi. The books speak about what they and other Jews suffered in the concentration camps. And shows of what could have not happen if this was stopped.
         Every since the end of World War II he has visited Auschwitz a few times. He has in facted visited it once with Oprah Winfrey.

Oprah and Elie Weisel At Auschwitz Part 1 
Oprah and Elie Wiesel At Auschwitz Part 2
Oprah and Elie Wiesel At Auschwitz Part 3
Oprah and Elie Wiesel At Auschwitz Part 4
Oprah and Elie Wiesel At Auschwitz Part 5
Oprah and Elie Wiesel At Auschwitz Part 6