Barbarian Nursery Novel Analysis

Who is the Actual “Barbarian”?
Barbarian Nurseries by Héctor Tobar is the novel not only about Latino culture, history, and immigrant right, but most importantly, the novel attempts to deliver the idea to readers about the unique perspective of the word “barbarian” of Tobar. According to the dictionary and the origin of the word, there is more than one definition of barbarian. During the mid-fourteen century, the word barbarian represents the foreign country from Latin barbaria. From 1610s, the barbarian was started to define as the rude, wild person. In the novel, the characters of barbarian are both Araceli and Scott and Maureen Torres-Thompson referring to different definitions of the word.
Scott’s great accomplishments brings the Torres-Thompson’s family lives with the relaxing life “on their hillside, one day followed the next with a comfortable and predictable rhythm.” (Tobar 11-12) Due to the reason, Maureen

Apparently Scoot and Maureen who appears to have the making of higher classes who lives better life than Araceli, but the truth shows that Araceli is actually the one who act more like the member of high social statues. While many Americans treat the mass immigrants especially from Latin America as the types of barbarian alien and some will judge others depend on the races or the academic achievements. How many people actually realized that it is possible for those Hispanic, Latin American or other minor races to have better personality or nature that is way superior than those who born as the one who will be accepted by the major society and receive top educations? At least in the novel, no character actually approves Araceli’s work and accepts her with true heart. Ridiculously, Scott and Maureen even play tricks of laws to deal with Araceli for they think Araceli will kidnap their son only for the reason that she is the undocumented