How to date a brown girl (black girl, white girl, or halfie)
1. You've already told them that you’re feeling too sick to go to Union City to visit that tia who likes to squeeze your nuts. (He's gotten big, she'll say.) And even though your moms knows you ain’t sick you stuck to your story until finally she said, Go ahead and stay, malcriado.
2. Don’t tell her that your moms knew right away what it was, that she recognized its smell from the year the United States invaded your island.
3. Pollutants have made Jersey sunsets one of the wonders of the world. Point it out. Touch her shoulder and say, That's nice, right?
4. You are not good at talking to people you don't know.
5. Don't go downstairs. Don't fall asleep. It won't help.
Although the narrator is using the second person throughout all story like he is putting you on his spot or teaching a lesson or talking to himself in instructive way this instruction how to get a girl is obviously telling more about himself that about the girls in his neighborhood or his parents or the reader.
The chosen lines from the short story describe him in very different ways. He starts with very considered plan what to do and how to do it. He does not care about his mother knowing that he is lying and that shows him as not very good son, as well as the fact that he is embarrassed with his family photos and plans to hide them. He is also shown as rather cold or hypocritical due to the fact that he is aware and concerned about some political or environmental issues but is now willing to show this side of his to the girl he likes, instead he appears the guy he is not actually is.
At the same time it is possible to catch a glimpse of shy and closed boy, it is possible to understand that sometimes as a teenager you are ashamed of your parents and it is hard for you to talk to people, especially people of opposite sex. And the last phase ‘It won't help’ shows that he actually cares a lot more about all these things he wants to be cool about and that is why it takes him a lot of time and efforts to live through a date with a girl.
