La Migra, Everyone's Abuelo, And Sally

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In the stories “La Migra”, “Everyone's Abuelo,” and “Sally”, we learn that many Latinos struggle with being confident in their identity because they always seem to seek acceptance from others. For example, in the story “Sally”, we read about a young Latina girl that struggles to be accepted by her peers which ultimately led to her “becoming a different Sally. [Who] pulled her skirt straight, rubbed the blue paint off her eyelids, and [stopped] smiling” (Cisneros). This quote leads us to believe that Sally wasn't confident with who she was because she changed her entire image in order to be accepted by others. This in turn, ultimately led to Sally's unhappiness because she wasn't being her true self. If she had just been comfortable in her own skin then she probably wouldn’t have been chasing after acceptance from her peers. …show more content…

She describes her history as being nothing more than “drunken boasts and corridos passed off as truth, there’s no end to it like the mirrors in the maze” (Saenz). She is embarrassed because she hates the fact that the history she knows may not even be true because whenever her family tells her stories she feels like they are just a bunch of exaggerated lies. She also seems to want to create a new self-image for herself but she feels trapped because as she tries to be someone else her heritage always finds its way reflecting like “mirrors in the maze”. As a result of this she struggles with believing in her true self and what her heritage stands for. In the poem “La Migra”, we learn about the injustice many immigrants suffer because of the unfair treatment they face by the border patrol. We see this at first glance when the patrol officer tells the immigrant “I can touch you wherever I want but don’t complain too much because I’ve got boots and kick – if I have to”

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