Question

write a response summary essay about Fiesta, 1980

reader point of view

Answer 1

Summary of the story :

Fiesta, 1980 starts with a family drive to an aunt's house. The children Yunior and Rafa sit in the back while the parents drive. Yunior is petrified; he is often sick in cars and his father has promised to beat him should he be sick again.

The father is cheating on his wife with a Puerto Rican woman, and often takes the boys with him in the van. At the party Yunior watches his mother in the crowd, unable to process his parent's seeming compatibility when combined with his father's philandering ways. By story's end, the stray parts (infidelity, Yunior's sickness, brother Rafa's predisposition to the female of the species) all combine to create a geographically alien but emotionally familiar tale of adult contradiction as seen through a child's eyes.