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¶ … Ruben Martinez, "The Crossing" he talks about his life and "the line" because of the border between the United States and Mexico border where his family is from a mixture of Mexican and American ethnicity, and he mentions that geographically he lives close by in a bordering town that is in southern Arizona where he is located and it is peaceful. The metaphor or the figure of speech that represents the wording can used as a symbol that is used in his work when he talks about "the line" that he discusses from the beginning of his narrative essay-journal by stating "I am, again, on the line" (Los Angeles Times, 2011). Furthermore, Martinez uses the discussion about the line as about the line or the divide there is between the two countries and how he also feels the same way because he feels pulled both ways from his own background and skin color.
Ruben emphasizes on his involvedness because he was in his journalism prose and reflecting back at the time that he spent on the immigrant trail when he is staying with Cheran where there was close to 30,000...
He looks back on the migrant lifestyle of his family, the Chavez family, and the lives of the Cheranos Mexicans and the different cultures throughout America and the consequences he would face because of such an adjustment where it had began two generations before when his grandfather violation a more friendly perimeter inside the United States. While Ruben felt that he and siblings were neither a "Mexican in America" nor an "American in Mexico" he felt that he had his own identity and this added to his decision to focus on a look back on his life (Amoruso, 2001).
Ruben Martinez meant for his readers to look at the way he looked at and viewed the world and how others did as well when he discussed how people are different in societies because of their skin color and background. He wanted people to know what it was like to feel like a no one and to empathize with others that were migrants. He misrepresents others in his works because of his own views and opinions as well as the other men and women themselves who look at him as an immigrant even if…
The poem is unique with its own literary terms that give it its own style with the text and phrases that are used even though it does not rhyme nor really have a continues and repetitive beat the different lengths of the stanzas yet is definitely assertive. I think this type of style was used to express the writers own persona and tone, and you could almost hear this child within America speaking as she wants to boldly express herself and her background. She is very blunt in her expression although a little flat and repeats how it is important for you to know that even though she has African, Tainan, and European roots, she is still a child that comes from America and not anywhere or anyone else. She even states what she is and is not throughout the poem, and that she is an immigrant and "the daughter and granddaughter of immigrants." The author also identifies her skin color in the second verse of the first stanza as she says she is "a light-skinned mestiza of the Caribbean," and then she states that "I am a U.S. Puerto Rican Jew, a product of the ghettos of New York I have never known."
Amoruso, C. (2001). Crossing over: a mexican family on the migrant trail. Informally published manuscript, New York, USA. Retrieved from http://www.imdiversity.com/villages/hispanic/arts_culture_media/archives/amoruso_crossing_over.asp
Los Angeles Times. (2011). The crossing. Los angeles times, Retrieved from http://articles.latimes.com/2006/jun/25/magazine/tm-thecrossing26
That is why I became Treasurer of the Wives Club, out of gratefulness for this extended family. I know many people of my generation struggle to find 'who they are' but the structure of the military offers a potent and compelling answer to that question. To serve means always to be at home amongst people who understand exactly what you are going through: "Home is the place where, when