When Tonio was in school and there was a lunchbreak, he opened up his lunch pail; kids laughed; he went outside and sat down nwxt to a wall to eat. Why? What was the significance of that?
shareThe kids laughing at him had sandwiches and things like that. Tonio's lunch was similar to the boys who were sitting outside - I want to say they had tortillas or something like that.
shareYes it had to do with the tortillas. In the book he was laughed at for having them and not sandwiches. You got the impression that the farm kids were white which they did not show them as such in the movie.
shareIt seemed more like a "class" thing than a race thing...
The slightly better off "Americanized" kids ate sandwiches and apples for lunch... the poorer more "traditional" Mexican kids ate tortillas.... and the uppity kids laughed at them for it...
at least.. that's what I picked up from that scene.. havn't read the book.
"I do the work of the devil, I'ma Hell of a guy"
As described in the book he was nervous about taking beans and tortillas. The beans in a mason jar and tortillas wrapped into foil. The poor kids lunch. The more urban kids had sandwiches and fruits etc. So when Antonio opens his bucket and darts to take out his food he gets laughed at by the Kim's in the classriims and goes running to dine his own kind which he does by the wall enjoying their lunch.
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