Don't stop writing writing writing. What do we do we write write write...ha ha h-ha

So, I'm working on my thesis and I've realized that I have to write the sections fast or I start to get confused about what I'm saying. Por ejemplo, I'm looking at Dora's Thanksgiving currently and looking for my problematic trends in the book. In one section I look at exoticism in the book. Exoticism is when a cultural group is depicted as strange or outlandish. Now Dora has all these animal friends, including a blue, boot-wearing monkey, named Boots. Now of course, this is certainly not a "normal" thing. I'm sure if I were walking home and a blue monkey jumped out of a tree or my backpack started talking to me, I'd think it was odd. But, it's a kid's book, and silly things like that are frequently put in cartoon-like books to stimulate children's imaginations. So, although they put weird things in the book, they're not portraying Latinos as strange, really.

However, in the displacement section (displacement=removing a cultural group from current reality), I do talk about the strange surroundings that Dora and her family are in as a problem, especially for white kids who have no experience with Latino people otherwise. They might think "Latinos can't live next door to me, they live in the woods." In the child interviews, none of the kids thought that Dora was from their hometown. They thought she was from Alaska or Hawaii. Even the kid I interviewed in Denver didn't think that Dora was from around there.

Anyway, I think I've sorted it out, but like I said, I just have to keep writing, or else I start to change my mind, and I think that should wait till the next draft!

On a lighter note, I think I'm making grilled cheese and tomato soup for lunch - delisiosa!