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¶ … Sweet Dream of Eduardo Gutierrez by Jimmy Breslin
This is a paper on the book 'The Short Sweet Dream of Eduardo' by Jimmy Breslin. It has 3 sources in MLA format.
The book 'The Short Sweet Dream of Eduardo Gutierrez is the story of an illegal Mexican immigrant who crosses over to the American side of the Mexican-American frontier, one of the divisions of which is the large desert of Arizona. This illegal immigrant, the protagonist of the book, Eduardo Gutierrez, comes to Brooklyn neighborhood of New York in search of good prospects for himself and his poor family back in Mexico and finds work at a construction site, under an unscrupulous builder. The book details the life of this illegal immigrant right from his birth in a small town in Mexico; up to the moment, he finds a job at a construction site. The author Jimmy Breslin not only covers the immigrant's life, he makes use of the tragic events and the final moments of this young immigrant's death at the same construction site, where he aspired to achieve something in life. Little did he know about the cruel and corrupted net of ruthless business tycoons, which he had become a part...
The author's contention that people like Eduardo have freedom to control their destiny is not correct. On the contrary, it is apparent that people like Eduardo and thousands of others like him are forced into the lucrative American market, purely for economic reasons. Even though they are well aware of the consequences, for example working in a dangerous surrounding, and/or where safety concerns are of little importance to the contractors. Certainly bad working conditions, and low wages are all contemptible reasons, for which the contractors should be accounted for, but it should not be construed to discourage aspiring workers from availing opportunities, that are…
References
Weinberg, Steve, Breslin Exposes Immigrant Tragedy, 2002 at http://www.bookpage.com/0204bp/nonfiction/short_sweet_dream.html
Breslin, Jimmy. 'The Short Sweet Dream of Eduardo' Crown, ISBN 0609608274
Friedman, Robert, 'One Mexican's Dream Cut Short', 2002 at http://www.detnews.com/2002/hometech/0205/13/e25-480940.htm
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