Salt of the Earth: An Analysis of Themes

The Chicanos in Earth’s Zinc Town fight against discrimination in order to obtain their civil rights that should be afforded to them by the Constitution. Racism experienced in Salt of the Earth is much more prevalent and more openly expressed than it is in Honor and the American Dream.

To start, the film seems like your basic run-on-the mill coming of age tale with a group of teenagers growing up to desire more after they graduate high school. However, there are various more themes discreetly displayed throughout the runtime of the film. For example, one central sociological overtone of this film is Marxism. With this overtone, it becomes possible to view this light-hearted and comedic movie in a

This movie Directed by Paul Haggis who also directed Academy Award Winning "Million Dollar Baby" and had also won an Academy Award for this movie as well puts a twisted story in this film. This movie is trying to symbolize what goes on in the world today in regards to racism and stereotypes. He tries to make a point on how societies view themselves and others in the world based on there ethnicities. This movie intertwines several different people's lives, all different races, with different types of beliefs. Such ethnicities include Caucasians, African Americans, Hispanics, Asians and Middle Eastern. This movie includes conflicts on both sides of the picture from cops and criminals as well

The whole point of the film is that the illegal immigrants perform jobs that Americans are not willing to do and immigrants are treated as aliens not what they really are human being.

The 1954 film Salt of the Earth directed by Herbert J. Biberman, is set in New Mexico and is about the Hispanic miners working for Delaware Zinc, a mining company, and the plot of the movie is about how the miners go on strike till they are treated equally the same as the other non-Hispanic miners. The miners’ strike goes on for months and the company decides to hold out on the workers by scaring the old workers with new miners to take their jobs, and during that time the wives of the miners decided to take it upon themselves to put themselves on the frontlines with the men because the women are also fighting for something else sanitation. News gets out about the strike and many supporters send letters with money

In this movie racism and discrimination is the cause of all kinds of trouble. The members of the school board, whether they knew it or not, looked at the Mexicans with a stereotype in mind. They didn’t take the time to understand Mexican culture or try to make contact with the Mexicans in their town. This exact

Imagine that one day, all of the Hispanic population just disappeared from the face of the earth, nowhere to be seen or found. The film, “A Day Without a Mexican” had that same plot, where the whole Hispanic population in California disappeared into thin air when a weird and mysterious fog surrounded the state (Artenstein & Arau, 2004). The film may had taken a humorous and satirical approach to the topic of Mexican immigrants and the overall treatment of the whole of the Hispanic population, but every joke that was made in the movie echoed the same problems and concerns that exist in reality. The film addressed many of the stereotypes and racism that surround the Hispanic and Mexican populations. The film also made apparent just how important Mexicans and Hispanics are to all aspects of society. Lastly, the film even attempts to cover what exactly makes someone a Mexican or Hispanic.

Salt: A World History written by Mark Kurlansky in 2002 is his fifth work of nonfiction. This novel explains the importance of salt, a mineral our bodies need, but cannot create; more than just an ordinary condiment, a substance of life. The book jacket identifies the book with the tagline:

This movie tells stories of millions of Mexican people illegally immigrate to the United States. They leave their family behind in Mexico and in the hopes they can find a better life. They face challenges and obstacles as an illegal immigrates, such as poor paying jobs, legal rights, and a constant fear of getting caught and deportation.

The main issue throughout the movie is racism and the perspectives on different cultures. The movie is set in Los Angeles, a city with a cultural mix of every nationality. The movie starts out at

“Salt, A World History,” is an extensive aspect of world history by Earth’s one edible rock - salt. The book begins at the start of recorded history, and highlights humanity’s dependence on salt, up to roughly present day times. It focuses on the effect salt had on, and its contributions to, humankind. The book details how salt affected, economics, religion, science, and culinary practices all over the world.

The movie is focused around the life of a man by the name of Tony Montana and depicts his rise to power from a political refugee from Cuba to a drug warlord. In the course of the movie, Tony Montana also

Race does not play a large role in this movie, which tells you a lot about the community the movie is set in. None of the characters in the movie are people of color. This tells the audience that the movie is dealing with an all-white, poor, rural community. This allows the audience to fill in information regarding this community based on what is already known about such communities.

The fictional accounts of women’s experiences in Fadia Faqir’s, Pillars of Salt, illustrate issues articulated by women’s rights activists in the Middle East. Traditional roles of women and men and a mythology of femininity and masculinity are juxtaposed with the disparate realities of the characters. The damaging forces of colonial rule, war, and Westernization are also exposed.

The movie takes up a lot of subjects. One obvious is slavery. There is also discrimination of women and human trafficking.