The Fighter Bird Thesis

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Thesis Statement: Mary Aprarico Castrejon’s essay “The Fighter Bird” reveals her family’s poor living situation and the grit which members of her family, like herself and her papi, have despite of their situation. I. Topic Sentence 1: Castrejon implies in her essay that she is from an immigrant family, and living in a poor neighborhood where crime is commonplace. A. Quotation 1: “The house on Alberta Street where our whole family has lived since being smuggled in by coyotes” (Castrejon 54). B. Quotation 2: “The other eye had been poked out and was now oozing white-yellow stuff that looked like jocoque” (52). C. Quotation 3: “They were noisy and pushing each other around like the cholos I saw at night on street corners, except these birds didn’t

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