Overcoming Obstacles In The Circuit, By Francisco Jimenez

When a girl and her mother were trying to escape a war torn country risks were coming. When the family reached the gate they were quickly pushed off by guards with clubs. When someone told the family a way to escape the country there were risks and they were running into smugglers , the daughter had a prosthetic leg, and the fact that the mother had asthma and anxiety. To overcome those risks the family had to stop every while but for the daughter there seem to be no problem at all. When they kept doing this they finally accomplished their goal of crossing the

The Circuit by Francisco Jiménez is a memoir enlisting the numerous hardships and injustices experienced by migrant workers. Francisco was a migrant child, meaning that his family moved constantly to work as migrant workers. They worked strenuously in fields, picking plants for farmers. However, they were underpaid and lived in unsanitary conditions. Migrant children switched schools often because of the migrant circuit, which induced a sense of loneliness.

As the great philosopher Heraclitus once said, “There is nothing permanent but change.” In “The Circuit” by Francisco Jiménez- set in America around the 1960’s- a young boy named Panchito (‘Franky’), his brother, younger siblings, and mother and father are shown overcoming draining circumstances and appalling housing situations that could at best be described as ‘fit for a pig.’ His family came from Mexico, but moved to America to start a new life and to hopefully earn more money through farming. Jiménez explains the many hardships of his life through descriptions of temporary, termite infested, hole filled living spaces and long, tiring hours of physical labor under the sun that in return earned him less than twenty dollars a day. Panchito,

Helen Keller was a social activist throughout the late 1800s and much of the 1900s for the deaf and blind. She went blind and deaf at a young age from a disease but learned how to communicate with the world. She went to Horace Mann School for the Deaf, Wright-Humason School for the Deaf, and Cambridge School for Young Ladies for college. On June 23, 1953, Keller gave a speech at the National University of Mexico to promote rights for the blind specifically. Helen Keller effectively convinces her audience blind people need equal rights through the use of repetition and emotional appeals.

The positive impact words had on the three people's lives is mind blowing; and these three short essays can prove it. Helen Keller was born in 1880 she was blind and deaf. She couldn't communicate any issue's she had with people because she didn't know how to. When she was seven her parents got a special teacher for her condition.

Helen Keller was born with the ability to see and hear. At 19 months she had an illness that the doctors thought was Scarlet Fever, this resulted in Helen becoming deaf and blind. Five years later, her parents had hired a teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan. Keller learned to understand and communicate to the world around her. Helen Keller stood up against

First off Helen Keller obstacles were being deaf and blind “Miss Sullivan had tried to impress it upon me that ‘m-u-g’ is mug and that ‘w-a-t-e-r’ is water, but I persisted in confounding the two. this quote shows that she kept combining the two. That it was very difficult to figure out which was which even though the teacher and showed her what is

Helen Keller once said, “Although the world is full of suffering, it is also about overcoming it.” Helen Keller faced a lot of adversity and obstacles in her life. But she got through it. Everyone faces obstacles in their lives, some more than others, but no ones life is just a sunny sea. I will be telling of four stories that are full of amazing people, who, against all odds powered through obstacles and kept going with their lives and competing their dreams against all odds.

Helen became deaf and blind at 19 months old in February 1882. Helen went to many different schools to get the help she needed. Helen did many things and always believed she could achieved her goals. "Duty bids us go forth into active life. Let us go cheerfully, hopefully, and earnestly, and set ourselves to find our especial part. When we have found it, willingly and faithfully perform it; for every obstacle we overcome, every success we achieve tends to bring man closer to God." Helen believed that God helped her through her illness. "Among the great teachers of all time she occupies a commanding and conspicuous place. . . . The touch of her hand did more than illuminate the pathway of a clouded mind; it literally emancipated a soul." Once she got her hand on something she knew what it could be. Helen believed God helped her get throughout her life.

Anne shows the camera how she taught Helen to speak with her mouth. This was accomplished by putting Helen’s hand on her face and speaking. This source is useful because it is a video of Helen overcoming one of the most difficult encounters that she had in her life.

Helen Keller has taught the entire nation that it is possible to overcome obstacles and obtain goals. At the age of nineteen months, she was stricken by an illness called “brain fever”, that left her blind and deaf. It is evident that Keller lived a strenuous life, but along the way she managed to establish the American Civil Liberties Union and received many honors in recognition of her accomplishments. The fact that a blind and deaf woman accomplished so many achievements over the course of her lifetime and is known as one of the most memorable women alive, simply amazes me. Although our lives do not necessarily alline, I hope to be as successful as Helen Keller was and overcome any obstacles that come my way.

Obstacles change our way of thought and affect our emotions. A person’s values change as well as their character and they develop an understanding on their situation. Through the hardships of any situation, there is some way or another a solution only in the presence of desire.

Throughout history there has always been adversity, even today there are people who struggle to cope with it in their everyday lives, but some are able to overcome it as individuals and move on. But sometimes there are situations so adverse it takes more than one person to overcome mentally and/or physically.

Francisco Jimenez's novel, "The Circuit," delivers entertaining, heart-wrenching stories told through the eyes of a young migrant child. This brief book allows us to have a look inside the life of an illegal immigrant family and their battle with poverty through an array of short stories which are based on the author's own experiences. I enjoyed this quick read with the subjects of hope, kindness, and hard work displayed throughout the story. I think that the novel's style is easy to understand yet won't fail in captivating the reader's attention, making it all the more a pleasant read.

The potency and inspiration of the less-than fortunate never ceases to amaze me. Against physical conditions that would enslave even the strongest of women, Helen Keller challenged her multiple disabilities and became an educated young women in spite of them. Blind and deaf at two, Helen Keller's story of bravery and fortitude and her remarkable relationship with her beloved teacher Ann Sullivan, is a delicate lesson in the ability of the extraordinary few to triumph over adversity.