Puente Poem Analysis

There’s poems online that are about roller coasters. Weird right? My Puente teacher, Mr. Shank, asked the class to compare any poem we like, to our experience in Puente and type it out; maximum 2 pages long. That’s our final. I thought it was going to be something else, like difficult, but apparently not. I thought about what kind of poem I want to look up online, till it hit me. When he asked about our experience, my mind played a movie of all the things I went through in Puente. There was lots of ups & downs. And just like ups & downs, roller coasters are like that too. I found the perfect poem to write about. The poem goes like this, “Life is a roller coaster ride, or game of Jekyll and Hyde. It slows at times, speeds at times. It scares
Ruiz coming over to Brookhurst to recruit new Puentistas. I didn’t know what it was about till my mom told me that my cousins were in Puente. I asked them about it and told me that it helps you out so much into applying colleges. I thought it was cool and should give it a try; plus it would look on my resume when I’d graduate too. We had to get interviewed in order to be apart of Puente. On the first day of school, in Puente, it was a bit awkward. You know how things are the first day; haven’t settled in yet. After a while, I got comfortable around the people in my class. I got pretty close to everyone. In a roller coaster, there is always that one part where it’s super suspenseful then it goes away right? Well, during my first year being apart of Puente, I remembered my teacher Daddario telling us about how it wasn’t going to be easy like regular english. That was the suspenseful part of Puente, but the part that goes away was how I made it through. We got lots of writing assignments, but were fairly easy if you just payed attention. The highs about Puente is that we got to go on a field to the Museum Of Tolerance. Such a beautiful experience that I will never forget. The lows about Puente was that they expect more from us which I don’t blame because that’s what it’s all about in
That was the point; we stay together for two years then go our own ways our last two years. Though, you’ll be counted still being in Puente. I got the chance to go visit UCI; my dream school. The campus was huge & they had a good medical program, which is great because I can study near by and work with what my schedule will be in the future. Going back to the quote I found, it says “Don’t close your eyes, and be lost…” what I’m referring to here is that there was times in class where I didn’t want to do work & I would distract myself with my partner or watch videos on youtube. I would mute myself from the class to clear my mind with something that had nothing to do with the work. I feel like this year had lots of downs compared to last year. Being with the same kids again for another whole year was good at the beginning, but it got to the point where I hated them. They all got so annoying & hear others talk about their classmates in a rude way. The connection between all of us was gone. I believe everyone would agree to what I’m about to say next, we don’t like one another because it’s either that person is annoying or tries to get attention from the class or