In what ways does Henry Reyna, the main character in Zoot Suit, represent what Mauricio Mazon refers to as the "antithesis of the American hero?" Illustrate through examples from teh film and article.
... with the children my age. At home where he felt safe and comfortable speaking in English and Korean he showed his anger and punishing me for being the popular one in school In the excerpt, “The Silent Girl,” from the novel, Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston the author’s main argument that adjusting from one culture to another can be a difficult struggle within oneself as well as with the rest of society. My brother is very much like the silent girl. Like the silent girl, he would not speak to anyone and would only read in class when he was called on. Silent girl “had no friend of her own but followed her sister everywhere” just as my brother followed me at school. Though he excelled in class, outside of class he was very quiet and reserved. He would not speak to anyone, not even when spoken to. At most he would nudge his head in acknowledgement. Kingston does a good job of contrasting the two characters so much so that they almost seem like the same person. The narrator hates the silent girl so much that it appears as though she does not hate the silent girl, but she hates herself. The narrator is trying so hard to fit in and be a part of the society that she believes will reject her and the silent girl is content with being herself and holding on to her culture. The narrator does not understand why the silent girl does not want to be like everyone else or even like her sister who was “fairly normal.” I do not know to this day whether it was that he wanted to hold on to the Korean culture tightly, if it was because he disliked the American way of life or perhaps that he was too scared to join society around him because it was unfamiliar that he chose to stay so closed from the outside world. At first I sympathized with him because he was in a whole new environment, but when the other kids in school made an effort to befriend him and he would not respond or perhaps he did not know how to respond I in turn began to feel bitter towards him. Everyone thought he was weird. The narrator explains that she “hated her when she was last chosen…hated her for her China doll hair cut…hated her at music time for the wheezes that came out of her plastic flute.” I too began to feel the way the narrator felt about my brother. I disliked anything that made me Asian and how everything he did magnified the fact that I was Asian. I began hating my brother for being so good at math and not in English and hating that he would follow me around during lunch and recess because he would not socialize with the other students. It made me feel as though not...