The Iguana Tree Summary Essay

Clo grew up in a time when the gender roles for Mexican women were more traditional and her father really only expected her to get married and not much else. Her father actually arranged for her to be married to a wealthy man that was her father’s age. All Clo wanted to do was go to art school in Paris but her father ignored her pleas. On the day of the wedding, Clo came down the stairs naked and embarrassed her father so much so that he sent her away to the art school in Paris with money to help keep her away.

Narrator: It was a cold, rainy night in the middle of the Chihuahuan Desert. There was a run-down, isolated shack roughly 200 miles away from the Mexico-U.S. border. This is where the coyotes live. Jasmina knew that she would have to collaborate with these men in order to have any fighting chance of surviving the dangerous journey into U.S soil.

It was all the girl’s fault. She had not tried hard enough to keep my baby alive. In a fit of anger I had fed off the girl until her head fell off. I then proceeded to go down stairs to her family of fifteen, that I had compelled to leave the girl and I alone to deliver the baby, and did as I had done to the girl. After my rampage I tied concrete blocks to the bodies and threw them in the lake, and put the heads in a trunk and shipped it to Mexico. The only body I left was of the Grandfather who took a pity to me. I returned the favor and buried him underneath the

Her whole life truly seemed to fall into place, and it seemed as if she’d never have to worry again — until she found herself sleeping with one of the firm’s lawyers, Lucifer Jones. It didn’t take long before the dark haired, bright blue-eyed man effortlessly conned Fleur into helping him embezzle money from the firm. The two became partners, stealing millions of dollars from the company over the course of the next few years. It didn’t take long, however, before the firm’s owners began to catch on to Fleur and Lucifer’s scheme, calling in the FBI to help investigate. It was then that Lucifer anonymously called in a tip, blaming Fleur for it all before completely disappearing. The young woman was arrested shortly thereafter, though released on insufficient evidence before anything else could happen. Though the cop’s quickly caught wind of her illegal residency after her

“Si habia dinero para las tortillas, no habia para la leche. Si habia dinero para la leche, no habia para la mantequilla,” Eloisa Ramirez remembers. Abandoned by her mother at eight years old, married by eighteen, five children by twenty-five, and with only an eighth-grade education, Eloisa waited for a month after attempting to cross the Mexican border into the United States because “immigration was getting a little tough to get around”. Eventually, she illegally,

...Juana woke up in the middle of the night. She felt anomie when she woke up. Juana knew something was seriously wrong. She looked around to make sure her husband, Kino, and her son, Coyotito was still asleep and okay. She checked Kino was gone. However, his clothes and valuable items were still in place. Juana looked at the ground and there was no footsteps or traces. She immediately thought that Kino was kidnapped. Juana started to panic and was lachrymose. As she kept thinking about losing him, the more she cried. She then saw something lucent on the table which is very ferly. She asked herself, “What is that?” Juana walked towards the light and then felt this blast of coldness on her and she got frighten. She stumbled as she was backing away; tripping and falling. Juana wanted to

Poverty and the promise of the American Dream is the two major reasons people immigrate to America. In the novel those reasons are certainly the two that come to mind the main reason. After the death of Juana’s little sister Anita her father Miguel Garcia decides to go to El Otro Lado aka America. Because of Anita’s accidental death Miguel must make the choice of taking his chances for a better life by making the long journey to America or stay with his family and take years to pay off Don Elias the man that paid for Anita’s funeral. The already poor family now owes a great deal of money to Don Elias. This pushes Miguel into making the choice to leave his family and go to American to provide a better life for his family. So the already poverty

Mamacita lived in Mexico with her little child, before her husband brought her into mango streets. Her husband worked days and nights to bring her and her child to mango street. One day Mamacita and child arrived to mango street, however she felt, she doesn't belong there. After Mamacita arrived Mango streets, she never leaves her home. Most people think, she never leaves her house, because she's too fat, or she doesn't speak any English. She sits by the radio, listens to Spanish radio every day. She gets disgusted and angry, when he child tried to sing the Pepsi commercial song. She hates living in the mango streets, she wishes to go home.

Christofer was asleep in the carriage but was soon awaken by cold and dirty tire splatter from a rushing SUV passing by in the street. Tamara froze in terror due to her child’s unfortunate mishap. Being the overprotective mother that she was, she put Christofer in her jacket and zipped it up. Tamara held Christofer with one hand in her jacket and pushed the carriage with the other. Regardless of her current situation, Christofer’s safety was her main priority. The last block was approaching after the cross light. With relief and little to no patience, she put Christofer back into his carriage and ran into the street with no sight or direction. She continually ran into the street and suddenly there was a loud screech followed by a massive thud. It appeared to be a Jeep with drunken tattooed Latinos speeding into the mother and her child’s direction. Christofer was knocked across the parallel streets side. Tamara was knocked to the ground, unconscious, without her child. The sirens blared loudly into the messy streets and knocked fallen autumn leaves into the air. The paramedics rushed to the accident

Once upon a time in Mexico, there was a lady that had three kids. They use to live in an old house made out of wood, they barely had anything to eat because the only thing that her husband would do is drink. That man would always get home late and drunk, but she got to a point where she was tired of it. She got the man's stuff and threw it out of the house. Her husband got there and saw his stuff outside, he went inside and started hitting her. The man said that the only reason that he got drunk was because of the kids. He didn't planned to have kids, he was trying to get rid of them. That woman really loved that man that she would do anything for him, then her husband told her to take the kids to the river and drowned them and he will stop drinking. This woman didn’t touched her heart to do this thing, she took all three of them to the river and one by one she

Yet none of the challenges or experiences compare to the love found between Grady and Alejandra, the daughter of Don Hector, the owner of the Hacienda. The last time John sees Alejandra at the Hacienda, “Before she returns to Mexico City, she is riding down from the mountains with her hat pulled down in front, seemingly unaware of her surroundings.” As John knows that he cannot see Alejandra anymore the image of her riding down from the mountains gives the feeling of closure for John as Alejandra is still an inaccessible, ‘dreamlike’

The sun is high in the sky and she can feel it as it is irritating her skin. Standing there staring at the never ending desert with chapped lips, she is adamant to cross the Rio Grande River. As night time arrives the coyote says, “Are you ready for your American dream to become real?”. All the immigrants follow the coyote down through what seems like a tunnel, but one immigrant stops, a young boy, and says, “I am petrified. What if Immigration is waiting for us?”. A young lady asks the child if he wants to hold her hand; as they are holding hands they walk together along the dark tunnel. They come out of the tunnel, but there is still more desert to walk. Finally, after walking for hours the immigrants spot a house up the

Juan, John, and DeShawn were on the way to the Hospital in Chihuahua,Mexico to go see DeShawn's new baby brother, Unfortunately him and his friends Juan, And John Lost their passports in Japan last summer so they had no choice, but to cross the border illegally just to go see DeShawn's baby Brother. By the time they got to the Hospital DeShawn's was too late his mom was already working at her job in KFC His baby brother was already 4 weeks old by the time he reached the house his parents are living in, DeShawn and his friends stayed in a nearby hotel where Deshawn's mom would drop off his baby Brother Antonio Wyatt Rodriguez Smith Jenkins. The day before DeShawn, Juan And John had to head back to the US John had almost forgotten That he had

When examining the studies on forests in the Yucatan Peninsula, it is crucial to understand the importance and severity of hurricane disturbances. Forests in the Yucatan are affected differently by many different types of forest disturbances, especially anthropogenic and natural disturbances like hurricanes which occur frequently (Boose et. al. 2003). The Yucatan forests also have calm topographical conditions, which provides clearer relationships between forest structure and composition, and hurricane intensity and severity. Understanding the relative importance of hurricanes also contextualizes the other disturbances that affect forest composition and structure. Anthropogenic land use conversion historically disturbs the Yucatan forests;

He picked up Angelica on his way home from Paulie’s. Part of him wanted to be alone, but the other part knew it wasn’t a good idea. Angelica was his part-time girlfriend. She was a Puerto Rican dancer who worked part-time at the local strip club. She seemed to do everything part-time. It’s cause of my son, Hector. He’s got a disability and needs me.