Personal Narrative Analysis

In Ruth Gomberg-Muñoz’s book, Labor and Legality: An Ethnography of a Mexican Immigrant Network, she allows us to enter the everyday lives of ten undocumented Mexican workers all living in the Chicago area. Ruth Gomberg-Muñoz refers to Chuy, Alejandro, Leonardo, Luis, Manuel, Omar, Rene, Roberto, Lalo, and Albert the ten undocumented Mexicans as the “Lions”. This book shares the Lions many stories from, their daily struggle of living as an undocumented immigrant in America, to some of them telling their stories about crossing the border and the effects of living in a different country than their family, and many other struggles and experiences they have encountered. Ruth Gomberg-Muñoz’s book delves into

This is an incredible story about a young Mexican boy who went through so much to achieve something he never thought he would. The tragedy of his infant sister’s death and an economic crisis in 1970s made him take this life changing chance – to cross the border to the United States. His cousin used to tell him that he would spend all his life working in the fields, Quinones-Hinojosa was ready to accept his fate, he did not know English language, did not have working permit, what else could he expect? So he started working in the fields, picking fruits and vegetables, pulling weeds until his hands were bleeding, hands that perform brain surgeries today. He discovered that being a poor immigrant without an education in a foreign country will make people treat you differently. At this point in his life, he decided to prove to

Jose Antonio Vargas, a Pulitzer Prize winning author, shares his life-long journey as an undocumented immigrant in his text, “My Life as an Undocumented Immigrant.” As the title suggests, Vargas attempts to convey to his audience, who likely never has and never will experience anything similar to what he has, what it is like to live as an immigrant in the United States of America. Skillfully, Vargas details the perfect number of personal stories to reach the emotional side of his audience, which is anyone who is not an immigrant. Through the use of his personal accounts Vargas is able to effectively communicate that immigrants are humans too while simultaneously proving his credibility, as he has experience and a vast amount of knowledge

With the fast-paced globalization together with the heightening political economic issues of the world, it has brought forth the illegal immigrants to cross the Sonoran Desert of Southern Arizona, or as the anthropologist, Jason De León describes it, The Land of the Open Graves. However, there is more to unauthorized immigration than what meets the eye. Scratching the surface of the case of undocumented migrants reveals that it rooted from the intensifying global inequality and crisis of the world. Accordingly, the author’s decision to vividly depict the brutality beyond words the undocumented migrants had suffered while crossing the borders allows the readers to see the bigger picture behind illegal immigration, preventing further unnecessary deaths of the innocents.

Journalist and author, Sonia Nazario’s novel “Enrique's Journey” has sparked tremendous attention to the immigration laws of the United states.Immigration and immigrants are the integral parts of the United States, which constitutes to the cultural and economic prosperity of the country.Yet, people segregate immigrants based on race, color and culture; especially, illegal immigrants that are labeled criminals, drug addicts and rapists.Through Enrique’s journey, Sonia Nazario illustrated the illegal journey of a young boy named Enrique to reunite with his mother in the United States.Enrique always felt abandoned by his mother Lourdes, when she left him and his older sister Belky to travel across borders to the great land of opportunities, the

Illegal immigration is a very controversial issue in the United States. Fred Reed, a citizen of Jalisco, Mexico argues why fault Mexico for illegal immigration when the United States chose to let them in. He is a citizen of Mexico who seems knowledgeable of the issue. He talks about arguments made by both Mexico and the United States Government. Reed appeals to ethos by referencing a credible book De Los Maras a Los Zetas, that talks about the corrupt border guards who take bribes for illegal passage. He uses pathos to evoke an emotional response from the audience by appealing to their emotion of empathy an anger. He paints the picture of these harmless hard working immigrants looking for a better life for themselves and their family. Everyone

There are many issues in this world but there is one that has being among the world that would never stop and this is immigration. For many years hundreds of Thousands undocumented people cross the border looking for a better future. Some run with good luck some of them don't. In the book “Just Like Us” bye Helen Thorpe talks about four young women who were in high school level in Denver Colorado. They had something in common which was that all four came from families who had emigrated from Mexico or one of the parent crossed the border without a legal entry visa. One of the girls called ** was born in the United States, the second one called*** became a Resident and Yadira and Marisela did not have legal documents. The time was going and

It had been a few weeks since the incident, but, I still couldn't take my mind off of it. It was atrocious. It was midnight and I was restless. I kept tossing and turning. Finally, I sat up and sighed. I heard whispering, but, it was pitch black and I couldn't see a thing. The whispering got loud enough for me to hear. It was Mother and Father. "I only earned a few cents this week. I don't think it'll help pay off our debts." Father whispered. He sounded disappointed in himself. "It's not your fault," Mother replied. "Why don't you look for another job? I've heard that the number of jobs has increased ever since immigrants like us have come to the United States." "Even if I find another job, I won't be able to escape the grueling conditions

In conclusion, both of us Dan-el and I had a difficult undocumented life in the USA, but we made this hard situations a reason to make us a better people, nonetheless Dan-el had better opportunities of me that never had the change without “papeles”. Being undocumented gave Dan-el and I the power to look beyond our miseries and limits. The difficulties fueled ambitions of two immigrants to reached a better place in life, and used our desire to learn to pleasure in life different of people without goals. The our difference that shown in our story was motivation to never lose the hopefulness or regardless about our situations. In a millions of undocumented people that live in the USA, is for sure have many of people like Dan-el and I, waiting

Carlos has been in mexico for several months, And today was the day to go back. He got money to get a coyote to help him go to the border without getting caught. But there was something different about this one but Carlos did not get so worried. He trusted him. So Carlos payed him and then the coyote did his job he led them to the border will that is what carlos and the other people thought they were going so they walked and walked. They then got to a point to where they could see the border. They stopped and checked to see if there was anyone close.Carlos did not see no one or neither did the other people but secretly there was a cop hidden in the bushes which they did not see. But the person that did see them was the one that was leading them. The leader of the group was secretly working for the immigration.. The leader got payed to bring people to the border just so that they could catch them and then the leader would also get payed from the immigration for helping them. So then today it was carlos turn to go to jail. But he did not know that carlos said “ let's go we did not come all the way over here just to see the better life from far far let's go” they then started walking.

On September eighteenth, two thousand one I was born four minutes after five o'clock to my parents Monica and Craig Tonn. I was given the name Valerie because my mom's mom was a babysitter to a girl named Valerie and she had liked the name. I was given the middle name Erica after my dad's middle name Eric. I am two minutes apart from my twin Ashley, and my older sister Melissa is currently in eleventh grade. We currently own two spoiled dogs and one backyard lizard.

Morning came and we went to the nearest gas station. We bought some food and hitched a ride with a man named Marco. Marco asked for our names and where we were from. We told him that my name was Angel and my father’s name was Avilio and that we had just crossed the border from Mexico. “My mother and father were Mexican and they had been immigrants also.” said Marco in spanish. He also asked us where we were wanting to go. “I'm not completely sure, but I was wondering if you could help us out for a couple of days until we got back on our feet and began to work.” said my father. Marco agreed to let us stay with him for a while, but he said he lived in Athens, Georgia. We all agreed to go. On the way, we all told stories of our past. “I was about to leave from my house to go see a friends and some family on the other side of our town when suddenly, a man who had a military outfit drove up to my door and knocked a few times. I knew what he had been there to do. He was there to draft me for the Mexican army. I didn’t want to go so I pulled out a bandage and wrapped it around my leg. The man came into my house and started to touch my leg and asked me a few questions. I told him that if he kept touching my “injured” leg, that I would pop him in the head. He ended up leaving. My dad told us as Marco drove. By the time we arrived in Athens, I was surprised to not see many hispanics or minority races. Marco explained to me

Maria Elena works as a cleaner in your home You find her quite pleasant but of late she seems to be restless so you decide to find out the reason for it and you are shocked Her story in short goes this way .Maria Elena is an illegal immigrant who lives in San Jose with her husband and 2 children in a run down apartment with two other couples. Maria and her husband Luis heard of how good everything was in the USA from a cousin and decide to leave Mexico, to give a better future for their children. So Luis entered USA illegally made enough money and then called for Elena .Using a false green card both of them work.

Men yelling, sirens sounding, the sound of burning tire, and there I sat in a truck meant for six people, but instead packed with five more than that. I could feel myself trembling with fear hoping for it to all be a dream, but I knew I had to be brave for my siblings and my mother so I was. I remember sitting next to my mother who was holding my one-year-old baby brother. Next to her was my younger sister, holding my little cousin. I sat still, staring out the fogged-up window and could see nothing except blue and red lights from the immigration trucks lighting the dark night. A life changing experience occurred that late September night when my dad was taken by immigration. Thus, being born and raised as a daughter of immigrant parents has led me to see things from different perspectives and has made me who I am today. I am me because of my parents, Fidel and Amelia Martinez. I am me because I believe I can create a different identity for my parents and I. My parents came to the land of opportunities to have an opportunity for themselves, but for their future family as well. My father’s hard work and persistence and my mother’s bravery have had a great impact on me. For this reason, my biggest influences are my father and my mother.

“ Do you want to be my girlfriend “ he said nervously, I couldn’t believe it my best friend had just told me that he had feelings for me and that he wanted me to be his girlfriend. I didn’t know if I should have been happy or worried because I also didn’t know if I had feelings for him like he did for me. Having one of my best friends wanting to date me was not a good idea because if I said yes we would have broken up and our friendship would have ended, but if I had said no our friendship would have fallen apart slowly because of how awkward it would be . But I also didn’t know what to do because I wasn’t allowed to date until I turned 15 . My parents would not let me date anyone at 13 because they thought guys only wanted to take advantage of me . My parents were strict Mexican parents that did not let me do anything without having them judge my actions or grounding me. So I took the risk, I thought to myself maybe if I say yes we could date behind my parents back and have a lowkey relationship.