
Spanglish
To Dean of Admissions,
Princeton University.
The most influential person in my life...
... is Mother Teresa, whose example
helped me overcome the arrogance...
which threatened after my 1,600 SAT score
and National Merit Scholarship.
My influential person taught me
the most important word I've learned.
Aloha, which I...
To the Dean of Admissions,
Princeton University...
from Cristina Moreno.
Most influential person: My mother.
No contest.
I think I have been pointing
toward this essay...
ever since the day, 12 years ago in Mexico,
when my father left.
Such was my mother's need to protect me...
that she would not let me see her cry.
The trick was...
get over it as quickly
and privately as possible.
Such was my need to protect her...
that I never let on that I could hear her.
My mother kept us in Mexico
as long as possible...
to root me in all things Latin.
Finally, she sensed
our last opportunity for change.
"One tear."
"Just one."
"So make it a good one," she said.
She would be my Mexico.
Because this admissions essay
is open record...
let me just say that our transportation
economy class.
In order to raise me properly...
my mother needed as much of the security
of her own culture as possible.
just 34/% Hispanic...
to Los Angeles...
48/% Hispanic.
...look at the Detroit Pistons.
And your mother's saying, "Get up!"
But, no, what of it?
You can't see them. Why?
'Cause you're being killed...
you're being strangled
What do you have in Oakland?
You got a bunch of psychotic...
A few minutes adrift
in an alien environment...
then we turned a corner,
and we were right back home.
My mother's favourite cousin,
Monica, gave us shelter.
For the next six years...
neither of us ventured outside
our new community.
Mum worked two jobs,
paying a total of $450 a week...
each of us doing everything we could
to make things work.
We were safe and happy.
If only I could have stayed six.
But I was blossoming.
And during my very first dance...
in the time it took a boy's hand...
to go from my back to my bottom...
it was evident that
she would have to leave her night job...
to keep a watchful eye on me.
Within days, she was
on her way to a job interview.
She needed $450 from one job.
And that meant,
after all her time in America...
finally entering a foreign land.
Hello?
Yeah, hi. We're here for
the interview with Mrs. Clasky?
Oh, great. You made it.
Come on in. The front door's open
and we're out back. Okay?
And call me Deborah.
Holding out had helped though.
She was no longer intimidated.
Working for Anglos
now posed no problems.
It would just be a job.
White America beckoned.
She stepped across the cultural divide.
Gee whiz in heaven, are you okay?
No. Don't worry, I'm not mad.
I've been looking for decoration to put up
on the glass so people wouldn't walk into it.
Instead of taking what was in stock,
which was awful, I special ordered...
but I'll design something myself,
which I should've done...
What does that matter
when your nose is bleeding?
- Shut up, Deborah.
- Now you got it, Mum.
- There's no ice pack, Bern!
- So get anything frozen.
Pressure! Just pressure!
Take this.
Is it strange that I just gave you money?
I just felt really badly.
It's okay.
Chum, knock it off!
I'm sorry about the way the place looks.
I'm hosting a fundraiser
for the school tonight.
It's just a mess. Come sit right here.
Here you go.
Yeah, just... That's great.
(0.00 / 0 votes)
Translation
Translate and read this script in other languages:
Select another language:
- - Select -
- 简体中文 (Chinese - Simplified)
- 繁體中文 (Chinese - Traditional)
- Español (Spanish)
- Esperanto (Esperanto)
- 日本語 (Japanese)
- Português (Portuguese)
- Deutsch (German)
- العربية (Arabic)
- Français (French)
- Русский (Russian)
- ಕನ್ನಡ (Kannada)
- 한국어 (Korean)
- עברית (Hebrew)
- Gaeilge (Irish)
- Українська (Ukrainian)
- اردو (Urdu)
- Magyar (Hungarian)
- मानक हिन्दी (Hindi)
- Indonesia (Indonesian)
- Italiano (Italian)
- தமிழ் (Tamil)
- Türkçe (Turkish)
- తెలుగు (Telugu)
- ภาษาไทย (Thai)
- Tiếng Việt (Vietnamese)
- Čeština (Czech)
- Polski (Polish)
- Bahasa Indonesia (Indonesian)
- Românește (Romanian)
- Nederlands (Dutch)
- Ελληνικά (Greek)
- Latinum (Latin)
- Svenska (Swedish)
- Dansk (Danish)
- Suomi (Finnish)
- فارسی (Persian)
- ייִדיש (Yiddish)
- հայերեն (Armenian)
- Norsk (Norwegian)
- English (English)
Citation
Use the citation below to add this screenplay to your bibliography:
"Spanglish" Scripts.com. STANDS4 LLC, 2021. Web. 8 Mar. 2021. <https://www.scripts.com/script/spanglish_18604>.