And the Earth Did not Devour Him by Tomas Rivera

As a nation of im migratorys, American accounting cannot be written wholly in a single billet particularly of the prevailing cultural group. A comprehensive depiction of our history requires the inclusion body and accommodation of the experience of every genus Phallus of modern American troupe.Tomas Riveras And the reason did not devour him, is a literary routine that provides an supplemental presentation of the US history in the perspective a beleaguered group of Mexican farmers albeit obliquely creating the motion picture that the US organisation and its business capitalist partners are the oppressors.The story was set quondam(prenominal) amongst the 1940s and 1950s during which umteen Mexicans came to the US to work as farmers chthonic the Bracero ( realityual labor) Program.This program which was instituted by both the Mexican and US government to cover the requirement for workers lost during the previous world wars, became a channel for the exploitation and ne ighborly variation of the temporary manpower imported from Mexico kind of of providing for the fair treatment of Mexicans workers in the US. numerous transient Mexican workers (braceros) misappropriatedly entered the US instead of returning to Mexico after the firing of their work contracts.This prompted the US government to convey over 3 million Mexican migrants without proper regard to their individual rights, without effectively differentiating licit and illegal migrants and without due good will to the dis integrating of family relations.In a serial of different stories often with unnamed characters, Tomas Riveras story generally captures the struggles and challenges in the lives of Hispanic migrant workers in their employment in America.The Struggle of the Mexican AmericanMexico leads in the Hispanic in-migration to the U.S. The sharp rise of illegal immigrants from Mexico especially with the Braceros program created political tensions between the US and Mexico. Hist ory would almost perpetually recount the illegal immigration of Mexican farmers by reporting the series of locomote used by the US government in combating illegal immigration.For example, aside from the capacious deportation of illegal Mexican immigrants (i.e. action Wetback) initiated by the Eisenhower administration, the US government instigated a U.S.-Mexico free trade agreement with the mark of generating jobs in Mexico in order to pr change surfacet, discourage and decrease the pour of Mexican workers illegitimately entering the US soil.Strict laws that called for tighter restrictions on legal and illegal immigration to regulate the U.S.-Mexico band were implemented.Later on, many American states adopted the position besides policy which delegates English as the exclusive official delivery. The standardization of language was accordingly intended to warrant the integration of Mexican immigrants in the American community. (Stacy, p 609-613)This example of historical a ccount along with similar and related events tends to reduce the incidence of immigrant farm workers in the United States in American history as a mere issue of illegal immigration without due consideration and recognition to the unique experience and socio-political circumstances of Mexican migrant workers in South Texas.By recording the lives and recite the traditional trails of an immigrant population, the invigorated produces in an delicate yet authentic literary piece the spiritual history of a passel thereby providing them a distinct pagan voice.In light of their familys struggle to wrick part of America, the protagonist in the novel undergoes intimate and spiritual moments of resolving ones identity, family and society beyond the sheer politics of defying the dominant last. In one instance, he even questioned Gods wisdom in their plight.God could not care less(prenominal) about the curt. Tell me, why must we live here like this? What film we done to deserve this? Youre so good and yet you have to make so much (Rivera, p 189)The stories in the novel practically served to support and support the hardships and brutalities that the immigrant Mexican farmers faced at work. In the story, That It Hurts, one boy was expelled from school because he was Mexican.In another terrifying story, The Children Couldnt Wait, a boy was killed because he couldnt admit with the bosss insistence that the workers should tolerate to drink water, a privilege freely endowed to cattle solely not to the Mexican workers. The farmers bear long hours of knifelike work, modest food and deficient accommodations in their camps for a meager pay.The children needed to substance their parents in working in the palm to improve family earnings at the disbursement of not being able to witness school. Younger children incapable to work were odd to fend for themselves which made them vulnerable to poor health conditions and other environmental risks.While the quandary of th e Mexican migrant workers is comparable to the thrall of the blacks earlier on in the history of America, the novel depicts a young mans struggle for self credit which ended with a reaffirmation of his bicultural sensitivity as well as his patrimony and allegiance with America. The novel did not of necessity represent resentment against the Anglo culture and resistance.Thus, people should reconsider the maltreatment of immigrant workers and the discrimination of ethnic minorities in general. For instance, the novel did not now criticize the Anglo culture but only uses it for comparative discussion of differences aimed to create a sense of pride and community among the suppress Mexicans.In the anecdote entitled The Night onwards Christmas, the Mexican mother tells her children that, In Mexico, its not Santa clause who bring the gifts, but the three wise men. And they dont come in the sixth of January, thats the real date.(Rivera, p130) In this example, the novel is not directl y criticizing American culture but is surreptitiously protesting against a social imposition of the dominant culture that perfectly disregards the religious beliefs of Mexicans.