“My People Are the Color of the Earth” by Alma Luz Villanueva

S- A niece
O- At the aunt’s house
A- To different families
P- To give an understand about the way different families behave
S- Not leaving without a full stomach
Tone
- Happy
- Caring



Villanueva is effective in conveying her message in this poem even though she does not use rhyme, but she uses prose to give the perfect tone. The tone of this poem shows happiness and caring because the aunt does not want to let go of her niece or any member of the family without eating. Also when they are eating the grapes they seem to be having a good time because as soon as they see the grape’s skeleton they start laughing; therefore showing happiness. The aunt feels surprise when she sees light skin people because she had only seen people with the color of the earth. This poem ends almost like the same as the beginning; therefore showing the subject of no one in the family cannot leave with their full stomach. This poem relates to today’s life because in the Mexican culture the aunts, moms, and grandmas they offer everyone to eat and not eating when they offered people to eat they would get offended. Sometimes they start making fun of people that do not eat by saying things such as I am not in your level therefore you do not want to eat. Also aunts, moms, and grandmas think that people thinks that they do not know how to cook and this is another way they would feel offended. At the end as the people feels too much pressure they end up eating. This happens in almost every Mexican family with aunts, moms, and grandmas getting offended when someone they invite does not eat.