El mundo

In our discussion on Wednesday we talked about how different things we saw as children appear now, as Millás discusses in Mundo. This got me thinking of how differently I view things now than I did in the past. The first thing that comes to mind is Chuck E. Cheese. This used to be my favorite place on earth. I loved to go there, play the games, eat the pizza, get buried in the huge ball pit and watch the shows. Now, when I take my younger cousins there all I can think of is how germy the games are, how much the pizza tastes like it was frozen, how many germs are in the tiny ball pit and how corny the shows are with the mechanical character. The emotions the narrator is feeling are so universal, in fact there are few things that I can think of from my childhood that don’t seem different now. Everything is different. I think that is what makes this novel so easy to read and relate to because the emotions he experiences.