Response to A Partial Remembrance of a Puerto Rican Childhood

The cautionary tales that I heard in my family were mostly about someone trying to take advantage of you. My grandparents, aunts and uncles would always tell us these stories of how people almost, or did take advantage of them. The tales would always catch my attention because of two major things they used behind their story telling. The first thing that would grasp my attention is the passion they told the story with. It was if they wanted you to feel as if you were the one taking the lost are getting scammed. The second thing that would grasp my attention is how they would project their voices, they would sure that every person in the room could hear every word they were saying. The way they in emphasized the warning is by raising their voices, if you were on the outside looking in you would think we are in trouble getting yelled at. The lesson that was to be conveyed is not to fall for any and every thing someone says to you. Every person you encounter in life is not genuine and there to help you some people get a thrill of seeing you fail is what my grandmother would say. Also it was to help us  recognize weather people were in our life to help us are to sabotage  are lives.