November 16, 2015 - 13:00
When I entered the room for Mr. Vázquez's talk, I was fully prepared to listen to a lecture based on the environment with a focus on environmental justice. Instead, Mr. Vázquez’s presentation was solely an analysis of Helena María Viramontes’s Under the Feet of Jesus. My reaction to this was kind of like when you order a Sprite and take one sip and it turns out to be water instead. It’s not that you don’t like drinking water, it’s just that your taste buds were expecting Sprite, and the water is just kind of a letdown and you end up being confused and upset. This is how I felt about Mr. Vázquez's talk. Not having read Under the Feet of Jesus, I was just sort of lost and confused.