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Rudy Salas, Sr. is a Mexican American sculptor and painter. The Prologue opens with Salas’s interview, “My Enemy,” in which he describes how the racism he experienced in elementary school, and his later encounters with police brutality, taught him to view white people as his “enemy.” Salas also laments how his sons experience similar encounters with racism, suggesting that racial tensions in Los Angeles haven’t changed much since Salas was a child. Salas’s account introduces readers and viewers to the “us versus them” dynamic that underlies many of the characters’ experiences throughout the following acts of the play.
Rudy Salas, Sr. Quotes in Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992
The Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 quotes below are all either spoken by Rudy Salas, Sr. or refer to Rudy Salas, Sr.. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Prologue: My Enemy Quotes
I realized I had an enemy
and that enemy was those nice white teachers.
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Rudy Salas, Sr. Character Timeline in Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992
The timeline below shows where the character Rudy Salas, Sr. appears in Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Prologue: My Enemy
Smith interviews Rudy Salas, Sr., a sculptor and painter. Salas sits at the dining room table in a captain’s...
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Salas describes how his “insanity” took root after he suffered a police beating in 1942, when...
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As a grown man, Salas reminds his boys always to cooperate and put their hands up if they’re ever in...
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