CH ST 1B Lecture 25: Lecture Notes
Document Summary
The plan was adopted in april 1969 at a symposium held at the university of. The document retains visibility as the founding document of the chicano student group: a dream, a riddle, a better end-martha gonzalez"s lecture, a place to stand-jimmy santiago baca. Baca lives in a nightmare rejection from both parents orphanage chaos pain lack of family lack of love prison no education functionally illiterate violent environment. Baca is seeking a dream to release him from his nightmare. Because he doesn"t have a dream, there"s no way out of his nightmare the beginning of his dream is by burning a book and beginning to decipher the words. The presence of this elderly man that"s getting beaten up identifies him as his father-like figure. Baca steals the book and burns the book. the nightmare starts to open up as he begins to decipher the words -starts to create a dream.
