Analyse af Danny Santiagos 'The Somebody'

Composition: The story is about Chato de Shamrock, from the Eastside in old L.A. This is his big day in his life because today he will quit school and wants to work as writer. He is a Mexican. He likes the language, but German is the best. He will someday learn to talk it. His gang’s name is de Shamrock. He had two friends, Gorilla who is in jail and Blackie who is in the navy.

His father spits and coughs a lot. His father wants him to be a lawyer, but Chato wants to quit school. Chato thinks that his father doesn’t care about him. Chato doesn’t like babies because he thinks they smell bad and vomit a lot. His mother has to feed the baby before Chato and he doesn’t like the way she smells.

Chato preferred the old street than the new one. He says, it used to be a lot funnier and more interesting. No one would dare mess with his gang. Chato goes out and rights on buildings his name with chalk and crayons. First he writes his name on the fence at the corner. And on the tennis court, the swimming pool and the gym. He used chalk on bricks and crayons on cement. He also put his name on the Triple A Market and Morrie's Liquor Store and on the Zócalo, which is a beer joint, and then the barbershop and a furniture store and the Plymouth agency, and the firehouse for laughs, and the phone company so he could call all his girl friends and keep his dimes, and then at Webster and Garcia’s Funeral Home with the big white columns. First he thought it would be a bad idea, but he did it anyway. He also wrote on the TV screen with a squeaky pen.