Quote Sandwich - My Tortilla MVP - Soul Sistahs

We've almost completed the novel The Tortilla Curtain, but I already know who my MVP is.  That's my Most Valuable Part.  It's going to be about America.  While the men are the LOUDEST, America is the STRONGEST.  She never gives up. 

America is my MVP.  Through the chaos and violence of The Tortilla Curtain, America keeps her cool.  She has her dream. She knows life is rough, but she’s not going to let anything or anybody get between her and her goal. 

My favorite scene comes when she meets face to face with a coyote in the woods.  She doesn’t even blink: "She looked at the coyote so long and so hard that she began to hallucinate, to image herself inside those eyes looking out...” ( Boyle 179 ).  They have no money.  Her husband beats her.  She has just been raped.  But, she’s not taking a step back.  She focuses on this little white house that she wants to live in.  The one with a gas stove and a refrigerator and chickens in the yard.  Like the coyote, she keeps moving forward,   She is a survivor.  She is relentless.

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Quote Sandwich - "Not Enough Hours in the Day" - Hissie Chrynde

In English 61, we are learning to insert quote sandwiches into our research papers. After I get done with this one, I'm going to quote the great John Lennon.  At the height of Beatlemania, he made the mistake of saying the Beatles were bigger than Jesus.  Below is a quote sandwich I made from a group discussion on "The COD College Experience." That's my classmate Hissie in the photo. She needs to learn to slow down. 


Hissie is a first-year student studying theatre arts.  She is from Ohio.Her dream is to be accepted at UCLA.  Right now she is taking as many classes as she can fit into her schedule.  To become a successful actor, she wants to know a little about everything.  

“The problem is,” Hissie sadly admits, “there are not enough hours in the day to get everything in.” You don’t have to be from Ohio to understand what Hissie is talking about.  As a first year student she is finding difficulties to manage her time effectively.  She is taking a full load of courses and working part-time in a shopping mall.  She gets up early and comes home late.  The little free time she has is devoted to completing her homeworks assignments. College isn’t as fun as she thought it would be, but Hissie is not complaining about anything.  She has her dream, and she is sticking to it.

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Quote Sandwich - "We're More Popular Than Jesus Now" - John Lennon

In English 61, I'm writing my research paper about  the famous Beatles album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Band.  It came out during the Summer of Love.  At that time, you could say everyone loved it.  You could hear it everywhere you went.  But, you could also say many people hated the Beatles.  John Lennon joked in an interview that The Beatles were bigger than Jesus.  That didn't go over to well.  Below is a quote sandwich from my research paper. 

In 1966, the Beatles were at the top of their game and at the end of their rope. Beatlemania was in full force.  Everywhere the band went, the fans became louder and crazier.  No one had ever heard music like the Beatles before.  No one had ever seen a band like the Beatles before.  To accommodate their fans, The Beatles were forced to play before huge crowds in baseball and football stadiums.  At one point, the band’s leader John Lennon joked in an interview, “We’re more popular than Jesus”  (Borack 80).  Of course, John’s words created a huge controversy.  Not so much back in England, but in the United States religious groups began to organize massive protests against The Beatles. This is when all Hell broke loose. Radio stations across the South began public burnings of Beatles records. 

Anonymous death threats came flooding in.  The Ku Klux Klan turned up at Beatles Concerts to cause trouble.  John felt that his words were misinterpreted, but he apologized anyway.  He feared someone in his bad getting hurt.  Very soon after, the
Beatles   stopped touring.  They were making better music than ever, but the screaming was so loud, they could not even hear themselves sing.    

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