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Henry and several members of his 38th Street Gang have been arrested for the Sleepy Lagoon Murder, which they didn’t commit. Henry is alone in a cell, waiting. He calls out to El Pachuco, a symbolic representation of the zoot suit and pachuco style. El Pachuco is a trickster, and while Henry wants to do the right thing, be patriotic, and has even enlisted in the Navy, El Pachuco stokes Henry’s suspicions of the police and white people.
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Henry: ¿Ese? ¿Ese?
Pachuco: (behind him) ¿Que pues, nuez?
Henry: (turning) Where the hell you been, ese?
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End:
Pachuco: The barrio needs you carnal. Fight back! Stand up to them with some style. Show the world a Chicano has balls. Hang tough. You can take it. Remember, Pachuco Yo!
Henry: (assuming the pachuco style) Con safos, carnal.
Luis Valdez, Zoot Suit: A Bilingual Edition, Arte Público Press, 1992, pp. 9-11.
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