Eyes and Teeth

Marcelino Olmos                                             10/25/10

                                                                                                                                               

                                  Eyes and Teeth

                                       by: Wanda Coleman

    In this story Eyes and Teeth written by Wanda Coleman. The main theme of this story is  racism, personality and point of view of things. The main characters of this story are Buzz, the  girl, Buzz’s mom, and the girl’s mom. In the beginning of the story, it tell hows Buzz and the  girl enjoy being together and playing. This story is about a boy that he is happy to be what he is until he hears something that changes his life forever.

    One of the themes of the story is personality. At the start of the story Buzz says how much he likes to be around the girl. It’s also personality because when Buzz hears his own mom say bad things about him he starts to change and act different from that point on.  It’s also personality because when Buzz, hears to conversation between his mom and the girl’s mom he reacts to it in a angry mood and sadness.

    One of the other themes that I think shows in the story is point of view. I think this is one of the other themes because in the story, when Buzz’s mom says things about him it’s her point of view of the way he looks and how she feels about him. This goes with the story because when Buzz heard his mom says things his point of view of the situation was that his mom was being mean and kind of racist to him. This story has this theme because in the story there are different kind of views.

    The final and last theme that goes with the story is racism.  This theme is another theme that can be found in the story.  When Buzz’s mother says “ I can’t stand to look at nothings but black”.This shows that his own mom is being racist against Buzz. When Buzz hears that, he suddenly changes and thinks that his mother is being races to his color and how he looks.  Also when his mom says that he is all ugly and dark skinned, Buzz reacts with sadness because he sees that his mom is being mean about the way he looks.

    In conclusion to the story is that, after he hears the conversation between his mom and the girl’s mom he goes away for twenty years and no one sees him for that tine. Until he comes back with his beautiful wife and two babies. When his mom sees him again she says “ have you looked at his children they’ll all beautiful and they look like his father”  In this quote I think that what the mother is saying is that the children are just as ugly as he is.