Francisco Jimenez Inside Out Analysis

In the story “Inside Out”, the author, Francisco Jimenez, describes a rather quiet character. Francisco’s family moved from Mexico to the United States, so he had trouble speaking the English language at his school. While in school, he met a kid named Arthur who could speak some Spanish. The two became friends because they can communicate with each other. However, whenever the teacher hears him talk in Spanish with his friend, she tells him to speak English.
His favorite subject at school was art because he could create anything he wanted. The reason for this is because he only spoke Spanish and couldn’t understand the instructions. His favorite things to draw were birds and butterflies. He would make an outline, and then use every color in
Sims. They wrestled and Francisco got a bruised lip. While they were fighting, the teacher came in and separated the two. He received a note for his parents telling them about the fight. He felt so embarrassed by his actions that he laid his head down on his desk and pretended it was all a bad dream. Afterwards, he went home and gave the note to his parents, but all they had to do is just look at his swollen lip to know what happened.
One day, as he was walking to his desk, he noticed his teacher holding his butterfly picture that was missing from bulletin board in front of the class. The teacher then gave him a blue ribbon with the number “1” on it. He was very proud of himself that he’d just won first prize for his artwork.
Later on in class, he looked at his jar where his caterpillar was. He couldn’t believe his eyes! He was stunned to find that it had turned into a butterfly. At recess, he went outside and released the butterfly. Then Curtis came at him again motioning Francisco if he could see his picture. When he looked at it, Arthur says to Francisco in Spanish saying that he liked it. Finally, Francisco gave Curtis his