Hector Verdugo's The Joy Luck Club

My first community event I attended was in the Chapel and Hector Verdugo spoke on behave of Father Greg Boyle. This talk was not all about the book, and I was not really sure if Hector even remembered many parts of the book. But I really enjoyed the way he presented himself to us and how he started it off. When the talk first began he asked us right off the bat to just fire questions at him about anything. This was a way where he was able to just give his honest answer and not have any thing planned out. It showed how vulnerable he was willing to be for us and showed a lot of character. When asked questions about the book for example what is like at Home Boy industries he did not just say what was said in the book but his own personal experiences. …show more content…
I believe that what we were suppose to get out of it is that people who are trapped in a social class or area that getting out is extremely hard. With the help of Hector he was able to show that it truly is, he answered any questions people would ask and gave an in-depth reason for why things were not always going to go the right way. Hector decided give a very personal story about how he was a family reunion after he made a better for his life. He goes on to explain that he has a very attractive wife and many of his female family members were extremely jealous. This caused for one of his Aunts to overreact and attack his wife. Hector went to explain that he had to forcefully pull his Aunt off of his wife. Looking around the room I saw that everyone was sitting there with their jaws dropped and in shock. But after the initial shock I saw some people wonder why someone could be so jealous to attack someone because of their beauty. Hector made sure to answer saying that living in the “hood, ghetto, or poverty” makes it hard to make yourself look beautiful for a man and thats another way for people to continue to be trapped in a place