Tattoos on the Heart reflection

  After reading this book I was really I was so into  it that I didn't figure that it was a 207 page book. This book is challenging to capture every single detail due to the fact that it has a lot of short stories within the bigger picture of the chapter. I like how his short stories are written in Parable fashion, which gives us a choice on how to define the deeper meaning and come up with a conclusion after analyzing the story with our own "conscience". All of the stories were good, but the one that grabbed my attention was the one about Cesar and going to JC Penny to buy him some clothes due to the fact that he just got off from prison. The picture that stuck to me the most was when Cesar asked a couple that if he knew them from somewhere and they immediately said no. The reason why that particular image stuck to me was because I had a similar incident happen to me with my friend that was a couple years back in a gang. I was always dressed completely different from what he was wearing and rocked different hairstyles also. But to make things short, this story is the one that I connected most out of all the stories.This story really has thought me and made me reflect a couple of years back of my life. All my friend needed was love because after going to prison, he got himself together and found someone to make a life with. and now they live very happy with a child. This story about Cesar immediately got my attention because it was as if I was in it a couple of years back. And i can put myself in that setting.