“The Youngest Doll” By Rosario Ferre (Puerto Rico)

“The Youngest Doll” By Rosario Ferre (Puerto Rico)

I learned from the story that Puerto Rican people believe in ghosts and some creatures.  Puerto Rican people like to make dolls for their memories of their childhood and making dolls on their free time.  I learned from the story that the doctor just uses women for money and they treat women badly.  I think Puerto Rican people look at women with a low rank such as in the story, the doctor told his wife to go sit outside instead she sat with him in the house or stayed in the house.  Also, I learned from the book that if a person is with a doll all the time they might turn into a doll.

Once when I was still in Thailand and I was 10 years old, my grandma and I went to our farm and it was not so far away from our house.  When we got to the farm, my grandma forgot the lighter because we planned to go burn our farm so we can grow corn.  Then my grandma told me to come back home to get the lighter so we can burn the farm.  When I walked back home and there was a little river under the bridge.  I looked down to see if there were any fish and I saw a little girl sitting down under the bridge.  Her hair was very long and she was wearing some Hmong clothes.  I yelled and she didn’t look at me.  Then I started to feel a cold air blowing on me.  I started to run to the house and get the lighter.  I ran as fast as I could to go get the lighter and to go to the farm.  A few days later I became very sick.  My mom was scared and my grandma told a Hmong shaman to do some shaman stuff to me.  The shaman told me that I had seen a ghost and the ghost wanted to take me with her.  Then my mom decided to kill a pig for the ghost and told the shaman to tell the ghost to take the pig.  After a few days later, everything started to be normal again.  The scariest movie I saw was “The Unborn.”  I think it was scary because the baby that cannot be born and the ghost that has a broken leg and neck.

By: KENG T. YANG