Unit 3: Independent Reading

Miguel tries to imagine the grouchy old man at Rudy's Restaurant as the young boy with the friendly smile in the photograph.
But he can't see even a faint resemblance.

He has already written them once this summer, complaining about "the unseemly shape of the vegetation," after Tía Lola trimmed the hedges in front of the house in the shapes of pineapples and parrots and palm trees.

The way she tells the stories, it's as if she knows these players personally. Miguel and his friends are enthralled.

The rest of the house is still the same color as almost every other house in town. "Regulation white," Papi calls it whenever he comes up to visit and drives through town.

Every tree seems filled to capacity with dark green rustling leaves.

On the neighboring farms, the corn is as tall as the boys who play baseball in the fallow field nearby.

He knew it would be useless to try to negotiate with a king.

He looked at the members of the court and exclaimed, "Allow me to share an insight I have gained. It is not one sound but the music of many blended together that is truly beautiful."

And so Marshall told them of his father's job as a coachman to the prominent Southard family and how at the age of eight he'd been hired as the live-in companion of their only son.

They were amazed by the young man in military uniform so adept on two wheels.

Early on the morning of the race, Marshall took his place among hundreds of spectators.

The press reported his every move, and he was invited into the homes of aristocracy.

Everyone wondered who would prevail in the next race—the quiet, gentlemanly Taylor or the explosive, larger-than-life Jacquelin?

As the men took their positions at the start of the first heat and strapped their feet to their pedals, the crowd held one collective breath.

From the time she started taking photographs and recognized that they could stir up feelings to the culmination of her long career as a photojournalist, Margaret was a trailblazer.

During the 1930s and 1940s, Margaret's adventurous attitude and perseverance paved the way for women to take on roles beyond the norm.