The short story "Sanchez," written by Richard Dokey, is a story about
Juan Sanchez and his family. "Sanchez" is told in many different settings,
which are all unique and represent various feelings that Dokey portrays to
his readers. The settings are described realistically; they affect Juan and
Jesus in personal ways. The settings vary from a small village in Mexico to
the Sierra Nevada in California.
At first the story is set in Stockton in the San Joaquin Valley. Jesus,
Juan's son, got his first job in a cannery called Flotill. Stockton is shown
to be a working town where Juan had lived before. To Jesus, Stockton is his
future and his hopes are large enough to shield him from the "skid row"
section of town. Jesus was to live in a cheap hotel while he worked in the
cannery. The hotel was described as stained, soiled, and smelly (151).
Jesus is proud of his room and his job, but Juan only sees them as
disappointing. Stockton, for Juan, brings back memories of hard work and
time away from his wife, La Belleza. La Belleza was the prime focus of
Juan's life and if he was away from her, he definitely wasn't happy; this is
why Juan has bad feelings for Stockton. From the hotel, we, as readers, are
taken through the town of Stockton. There are torn buildings and rubble all
over the place. A "warm and dirty" pool hall was Jesus' "entertainment"
(152). This smoky pool hall was recreation for Jesu...
...also accurately. “Salvador’s confession lasted three hours and twenty-two minutes and wrung Salvador out as if he’d been taken to the stream like a bunch of dirty clothes and his heart and soul were pounded with stones and scrubbed hard with soap” (537). Doña Margarita is pious woman along with having a great influence over Juan, which is shown above. Juan realizes that his mother is right, if he truly wants to be happy in his marriage he cannot start off with being unholy in his mind, so he must cleanse himself by going to Reconciliation. The children of the matriarch, mainly Juan because of his radical changes during his life, are greatly influenced by their mothers. They have become living embodiments of each of their mothers stand for, which was the real goal of the mothers after all.
the people was poor, disinherited, and dispossessed. It also describes Jesus as having his back
Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz’s upbringing greatly influenced her character. In 1648, Juana was born illegitimately in the town of San Miguel de Nepantla, located southeast of Mexico City (Trueblood 2-3). Juana’s mother, Isabel Ramirez, had an independent nature about herself. Like Juana would later do, Ramirez refused to marry (Trueblood 2-3). At the age of ten, Ramirez noticed that Juana had a large capacity for knowledge, so she sent Juana to study in Mexico City (Trueblood 3). After studying alone Juana desired to further seek a life of independence and freedom from authority.
Mexico is described as tragic-those who are of Mexican descent are often very traditional in thought. Rodriguez’s father held the traditional beliefs that old men are wise, that life is disheartening, and near one’s death is the point where one must look back on their life. However, he also feels that Mexico is a happier place, with sweeter children and more lavish funerals. Perhaps he views Mexico as the tragic place because it represents a lost heritage to him. He, who in his middle age, finds himself agreeing with the Mexican ideals, nevertheless finds himself affected by living in America. Instead of being raised with the ideas of Mexican culture, he was raised with Protestant optimism characteristic of California. He was forced to abandon the way of life of his ancestors, even if only partially. America-more specifically, California, conquered the Mexican ways, and in so doing, lost the opportunity to reconcile the Catholic South and the Protestant North. Thus, Mexico emerged as the tragic hero and California as the laughing victor. California is comedic because it is a place where it is possible to start anew, to defy the traditional.
She thought she was going to be living a great life with Juan Pedro until she realized she was alone. There was nowhere she can go in walking distance. She didn’t have a car or any friends, she felt segregated. Sure, Cleofilas did not like the gossip in Mexico but America lacked the community Mexico has which adds to her misery. In Mexico she was able to go to social events but in America she felt that Mexican women were more dependent on their husbands because they did not know anything there.
In the Gospel of Luke, Jesus shares the life of the lowly and poor. Although he is a savior, he is also a human being who is often rejected during his ministry, just like how society view and often treat lowly people. “The one who has power on earth to cure the sick, forgive sins, and exorcise demons serves at table and is obedient to the
Before he joined the censors, Juan was writing a letter to his friend Mariana, but its content would be considered subversive, or rebellious. So Juan joined the censors so that he can intercept his letter and bring it home. But after he joined the censors, he got so devoted to the job that in the end, he censored his own letter without thinking and got himself executed the next day (Valenzuela 92). In this short story, we learn that people tends to forget their initial goal after putting all their efforts into something. Juan got so into his job that he forgot what he was trying to do in the first place, thus getting himself executed. This supports my argument because if you devoted all of your time into fighting and demanding for freedom, you might in the end forget what you are fighting for and never get what you
the village, he teaches the poor and those who can't go to church about what G-d
The emotional letter that Juan left for his mother might be one of the most emotional scenes in the documentary. The pure emotions that the letter was written by Juan to her mother leaves the audience with the bonds and emotions felt between the kids and families. Juan Carlos’s father abandoned the family years ago and left to New York, consequently Juan believe it is his responsibility to provide for his family. He also wants to find his father in New York and confronts him about why he has forgotten about them. The story of Juan is not just about migration of children, but also the issue of family separation. The documentary does not dehumanize but rather bring the humane and sensitive lens to the story of Juan where the human drama that these young immigrants and their families live. Juan Carlos is not the first of Esmeralda’s sons to leave for the United states, his nine-year-old brother Francisco was smuggled into California one month earlier. Francisco now lives with Gloria, his grandmother, who paid a smuggler $3,500 to bring him to Los Angeles, California. Once Juan Carlos is in the shelter for child migrants his mother eagerly awaits him outside. After she sees him she signs a paper that says if Juan Carlos tries to travel again, he will be sent to a foster home.
Cleófilas’ father wanted her to marry Juan Pedro Martinez Sanchez, so what if she did not get married to her husband and moved to Seguin, Texas. Cleófilas would not be in a position of being a person’s possession and suffered the abuse of her husband. She would not be in an isolated world away from her family, or any real support that can help her through all the things she has to go through. Cleófilas explains that she did not “cry out” when her husband hits her for the first time, but she has always imagined she would after watching episodes of her favorite telenovelas. This was also the first time in the story that Cleofilas’ view of their happy marriage was
· Mark 10: 17-22 (The Rich Man), In which a rich man runs up to Jesus
Then, Juana pull herself to the path of the border city of Mexico, Tijuana. It is when she met Adelina Vasquez who worked her way into prostitution as a way of survival in Tijuana. In the article of Then and Now: US Policy Towards Central American Fuels Child Refugee Crisis stated that, “An indigenous Mayan who then spoke Spanish but no English, she faced sexual violence and dehydration along the way—but survived.” (Schivone) The difference between difference and life changing began when they met because they changed each other like no other could because they were both searching for some sort of freedom. Adelina subconsciously wanted to get away from her boyfriend who pimped her out as a working girl while Juana believed that if she were to
Throughout the story, Juvencio seems very selfish. He never cares about anyone besides himself and what happens to him, which causes him many problems with those who care about him. His selfishness creates a divide between him and his family. This is shown in the first few paragraphs of the story, “‘All right, I'll go. But if they decide to shoot me too, who will take care of my wife and kids?’ ‘Providence will take care of them. You go now and see what you can do for me. That's what matters.’” Even this early on in the story, Juan Rulfo shows the reader how self-centered Juvencio is, that he would tell his son to endanger his life to save Juvencio’s own life. Juvencio states to Justino that saving him matters more than the safety of Justino or his family. Juan Rulfo also shows that Juvencio’s selfishness makes his son less ready to help him by describing Justino having an inner conflict about whether to take the risk of helping his father. Justino almost doesn’t help his father, showing that he is losing empathy for his father as a result of Juvencio’s selfishness and self-centered lifestyle. Juan Rulfo uses this scene to illustrate his theme related to selfishness. There are also a few examples of Juvencio’s lack of empathy in this story, including the scene in which Juvencio talks about his crime, showing a total lack of caring for any other human
As Juan mentioned in the case study, he very much regretted having to drop out of high school and he harbored significant resentment towards his father because of that. Elena also experienced her own unique difficulty as well, revealing to the social worker that as a child she was often held to adult standards while she was still very young.
Some moved to the San Joaquin Valley seeking employment as fruit pickers and farm hands. Work was scarce and the farms would exploit children with low wages instead hiring adults. Unlike seasonal workers who moved after harvest, the new crowd remained instead of migrating. They came to this region destitute and because they could not make decent wages, they lived in squalor, in tents, in shantytowns, and anywhere they could rest their weary bones. Out of this misery came John Ste...