The Chapter Negocious By Papi

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In the book “Drown”, The chapter Negocious has been one of the most vividly informative section of Ramo’s immigration saga. This chapter details the period within which Yunior’s father (Ramos) has been planning and working on leaving his home country “Dominican Republic” in search of a greener pasture in the United States. The immigration saga was as a result of enormous poverty culminated with frustration, tremendous difficulty of making ends meet in Dominican Republic. As it has always been many immigrant experience and story, immigration to developed countries is the most desirable option and solution in achieving great success that could eventually trickle down on the children and the younger generation of the immigrants to have a great and quality life. This was a dream that Ramo targeted and hoped to achieve, and believed that immigration to the United States maybe the best option to achieving his hopes and dreams. It has been mentioned in this very chapter that Ramo has been struggling in saving for his departure, and this includes borrowing money from friends and from whomever he thinks he can get some aid from. “Papi had been planning to leave for months, hustling and borrowing from his friends, from anyone he could put the bite on”. (Line 2,3,4 Page 163).
This section of the book also narrated the aftermath …show more content…

This section probably has been one of the most detailed, informative and most romanticized section of the book

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