Describe how severo perezs melancholy baby

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"Dutiful Daughter" and "Melancholy Baby" (Nepantla, 147-170)

Question 1. Describe who the "lotus eaters" are in Diana López's story, "Dutiful Daughter." Can your own family hold you back when you (like the protagonist Juanita) are doing something they don't understand, or crossing a border they haven't crossed? How must someone living this Nepantla experience form a new community, beyond your family, to give you support and encouragement?

Question 2. Describe how Severo Perez's "Melancholy Baby" is an example of the Nepantla experience as it relates to religion. How difficult is it for the next generation to ask hard questions about the religion of their parents, or even to reject their religion? Give us some examples of this type of experience within your family. How were the problems resolved, or not?

"Mundo Means World" and "Border as a Womb" (Nepantla, 170-195)

Question 1. In Octavio Solis's "Mundo Means World," describe the 'toxic masculinity' that the gun promotes in Mundo while he has it in his possession. Why do you think he needs this type of self-confidence? Why do you think he eventually realizes that this type of self-confidence is not for him?

Question 2. Describe the ways the dead are as present as the living in ire'ne lara silva's "Border as Womb Emptied of Night and Swallows."How does this liminal existence, between the living and the dead, exemplify Nepantla? In what ways are your family members always with you, long after they have died?

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