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“his father had turned into an old man and he hadn’t even noticed.”
1 luis cintrón sits on top of a six - foot pile of hubcaps and watches his father walk away into the steel jungle of his car junkyard. released into his old man’s custody after six months in juvenile hall—for breaking and entering— and he didn’t even take anything. he did it on a dare. but the old lady with the million cats was a light sleeper, and good with her aluminum cane. he has a scar on his head to prove it.
2 now luis is wondering whether he should have stayed in and done his full time. jorge cintrón of jorge cintrón & son, auto parts and salvage, has decided that luis should wash and polish every hubcap in the yard. the hill he is sitting on is only the latest couple of hundred wheel covers that have come in. luis grunts and stands up on top of his silver mountain. he yells at no one, “someday, son, all this will be yours,” and sweeps his arms like the pope blessing a crowd over the piles of car sandwiches and mounds of metal parts that cover this acre of land outside the city. he is the “son” of jorge cintrón & son, and so far his father has had more than one reason to wish it was plain jorge cintrón on the sign.
3 luis has been getting in trouble since he started high school two years ago, mainly because of the “social group” he organized—a bunch of guys who were into harassing the local authorities. their thing was taking something to the limit on a dare or, better still, doing something dangerous, like breaking into a house, not to steal, just to prove that they could do it. this was luis’s specialty, coming up with very complicated plans, like military strategies, and assigning the “jobs” to guys who wanted to join the tiburones.
4 tiburón means “shark,” and luis had gotten the name from watching an old movie about a puerto rican gang called the sharks with his father. luis thought it was one of the dumbest films he had ever seen. everybody sang their lines, and the guys all pointed their toes and leaped in the air when they were supposed to be slaughtering each other. but he liked their name, the sharks, so he made it spanish and had it air - painted on his black t - shirt with a killer shark under it, jaws opened wide and dripping with blood. it didn’t take long for other guys in the barrio to ask about it.
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theme
luis was just released from juvenile hall, is reluctantly working for his father, and feels that he has disappointed him.
this suggests a coming - of - age theme that explores a parent - child relationship.

Explanation:

The text is a literary excerpt with themes of coming - of - age and parent - child relationships, and it involves literary analysis. The subfield Literature under Arts is the most appropriate as it deals with the study of written works, their themes, characters, and narrative elements.

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Literature (under Arts)