Reception
Their Dogs Came With Them was published in 2007 and has been receiving growing popularity. Kate Soto writes in an article that Viramontes looks to critique to colonist exposing the problems ignored with the highway construction. The title and the story works to expose how the Quarantine Authority worked to control the people using the dogs as an excuse. Representing the power and government, the story illustrates how the people were mistreated and used. In an interview, Viramontes says that she writes in an effort to take people to the place and the time with the people. She wants to readers to experience the book along with the characters. She writes about a place and a cultural construct that no longer exists in East LA but only exists in her memory which allows her to write fiction as she pleases (Rokitka). Viramontes’ Their Dogs Came With Them works to expose what she experienced as a child by illustrating how those in power, the colonists, the Quarantine Authority affect those who are weak.
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Famous quotes containing the word reception:
“To aim to convert a man by miracles is a profanation of the soul. A true conversion, a true Christ, is now, as always, to be made by the reception of beautiful sentiments.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“I gave a speech in Omaha. After the speech I went to a reception elsewhere in town. A sweet old lady came up to me, put her gloved hand in mine, and said, “I hear you spoke here tonight.” “Oh, it was nothing,” I replied modestly. “Yes,” the little old lady nodded, “that’s what I heard.””
—Gerald R. Ford (b. 1913)
“To the United States the Third World often takes the form of a black woman who has been made pregnant in a moment of passion and who shows up one day in the reception room on the forty-ninth floor threatening to make a scene. The lawyers pay the woman off; sometimes uniformed guards accompany her to the elevators.”
—Lewis H. Lapham (b. 1935)