Why was Mamacita homesick?

               Mamacita was from the Spanish speaking country as noticed in the short writing. And of course anyone that left their home town would be homesick and so was Mamacita. Probably because Mamacita missed or got used to live in the environment in her hometown which was obviously mentioned in the content, plus she could rarely speak to anyone since she didn’t know much English vocabulary. Likely that she didn’t have many friends to talk to and her son was speaking English though she didn’t like it very much.

               It seemed like Mamacita went aboard with her son, the man across the street. She didn’t belong to the place she was living, every once in a while she would let out a cry. She cried with the desirous of moving back to her pink house, pink as hollyhocks with lots of startled light in the photograph she looked at. Moreover, since she was fat and couldn’t climb down or up the stairs very comfortably so she was not a socialize person.

               Although she could rarely speak English but at least she got eight words. However, she wouldn’t feel fine to live in such a big city with the three sentences she knew. Which were: He not here for when the landlord came, No speak English if anybody else came, and Holy smokes for when she found a shock moment. She sat all day long by the window and played the Spanish radio show and sang all the homesick songs about her country which made her feeling more homesick.

               Lastly, Mamacita didn’t have many friends. Indeed, the only friend who she could talk to was her son. In addition, after she and her son had gone back to their own country, her baby boy had begun to talk and sung the Pepsi commercial she heard on T.V. and she didn’t like it at all. She told him neither to speak nor sing in any English songs. I guess she really hate English after all.

               To add up, Mamacita was homesick because she didn’t like the environment there that people spoke English all the time, plus she missed her hometown’s environment more than anything. Therefore, she had not got any friend while living aboard. The city Mamacita was living made her lonely and so she wanted to go home.

By: Narit Prayoonrat