Las Papas By Julio Ortega

    This story was about a a father who was preparing a dish for his son. The story begins when he is getting all of the things that he is going to need to make a dish for his son. He takes out some potatoes and starts to cut them into pieces. He starts to talk about the history of potatoes and while he is saying all of this his son emerges and asks him what he is making. The father tells him what he is doing and the son kind of disapproves the dish. Then when this happens the father remembers how his father used to do the same with him. He then remembers how he had disapproved one of his fathers dishes and so he now regrets it because he is feeling what his father felt with his own son. Towards the end he changes the dish for another one and his son ends up liking it. At the very end the father buried the big potato while his son watched him and he tells him that "no one is ever going to know that he had planted it there."

     This story talks about food and history. But this story is more about keeping up with culture. This man doesn't want to forget his culture and he kind of wants to keep it going. He talks about how his dad did the same with him him when he was a child and so in a way this lets me know that he wants to keep the tradition going with his own child. Another thing that I got from this story is disappointment. This dad was trying to do everything he could to kind of not disappoint his son, but he still wanted to keep his culture and history going at the same time. He didn't wanted to lose it.