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Composition Paper

22 February 2016.

The article is about a Mexican family that owns a large elegant home and is preparing for the house-opening celebration that will be attended by affluent visitors and locals. The article portrays the owner of the house as a farmworker. He and his son are busy working on the large tract of land near the front gate where they are towing off tree trunks in a bid to clean the area through which visitors will pass.

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Aman drives to the compound in a nice convertible, finds Lupe and his son in working gear, covered in manure and dirt, and takes them for employees on the land. This is demonstrated when he asks Lupe if he speaks English. The man, John Ford, demands to know the whereabouts of the house owner. Lupe plays tricks on him by pretending to be an employee of the firm and playing along with John directive questions of a famous man from abroad who owns the land. Lupe takesJohn around the compound and inside the house, all the while trying to act in the role of an employee who was would readily take advantage of his boss’s absence to show off the house’s stylish furniture and decor to the wealthy stranger. At the end of the adventure, Lupe invites him to the house opening party. Later, John laughs off the ploy after realizing Lupeis the real owner of the opulent house.

As stated by the article, Lupe and his family had been preparing for the house-opening feast for over a month. They had arranged to slaughter well-fattened sheep and pigs to offer adequate meat to their visitors. According to the article, Lupe, his son, and wife are very busy planning for the feast to ensure it is a success and to impress the visitors who are respected and wealthy people of society. Lupe called his brother and some few farmworkers to help slaughter a steer for the feast, and his wife led several women in preparing meals for the visitors. The article posits that the following morning Lupe’s elder son was awoken by noises of people in the house laughing and talking excitedly. The chapter provides a dramatic ending to the feast; a skinned and well-prepared steer’s head is presented to the mayor by Lupe as an honor, but the mayor’s wife instead screams and scrambles away in terror.

Questions

1. How are Lupe and his son dressed?
2. What implication does it give any visitor to the house?
3. Why do you think John drove to the house and why is he inquisitive about the owner of the house?
4. How does Lupe behave when John refers to him as one of the house owner’s employees?
5. Why does Lupe play tricks with John?
6. What happens when John finds out that Lupe was tricking him all along and that he was the real owner of the house?
7. How well are Lupe and his family prepared for the feast?
8. Is the feast preparation being handled by Lupe’s nuclear family alone?
9. What kinds of visitors are invited to the house opening celebration?
10. Who is the most recognized of all visitors invited to the party?
11. What recognition is the mayor given at the celebration?
12. What dramatic event happens with the mayor’s wife?