How does sacrifice impact/influence pride?
In the book “Rain of Gold”, both families have made it safely across the border and are now currently residing in the Los Angeles area of California. Life for both families went from bad to worse. Even though survival was still a struggle, family was something that held both families together. “Money isn’t everything, our family, our blood, our dreams---these are the reasons that we’ve been struggling all these years; not money” (230). Juan had lived in Montana for the past six years were he had it good, surrounded by pretty girls while he made a lot of money gambling. He came to California thinking that his mom was dying only to find out it was all a lie. He stayed because of the promise he made to his mom. He went from having everything to being at the bottom again. Juan has always been a very proud man but the living conditions and ignorance from both his nephews and society bruised his pride. He lived in a “shack” and he experienced segregation for the first time. Living in that time period and under those conditions made it hard for anyone to be proud of anything. Juan worked in a rock quarry along with other Mexican immigrants. An un-warned explosion killed three immigrants and injured many more but nothing was done about it. Juan and the other immigrants decided to protest about it but nothing came out of it except disappointment. “All these years that he’d been away from his people---up in Montana among the Greeks and Turks---he’d missed them so much, but now he hated his people from the bottom of his soul” (262). Mexican’s have always been the type of people to stand up and fight for justice but now they can’t even speak up for what’s right. They have all lost their pride and now live under the fear of the “white man”. No matter what situation your in you should never let anyone think or speak for you, even though your in a different country you still have a voice.
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Aloha Ceci
ReplyDeleteI agree with your blog that everyone should stand up for themselves and also their culture because everyone comes from different aspect of life and if they speak up you will be heard and that changes maybe developing.
Your example from the book is really good. It is very true that no one should speak for anyone. Everyone has a mind of their own and people should not let anyone think that their lower then them. I think what you should do next time is try to connect your question to a personal situation or something from somewhere else. Othere then that everything is great
ReplyDeleteI like the examples you used in your blog. He did sacrifice his "life" he had in Montana to be with his family and that showed that he was a good man inside even though he had done things he had to regret. Nice blog!
ReplyDeleteYou started off the blog very great by giving a quote then after it show how Juan's pride got affected when he went from having everything back to nothing because he moved back with his mom in California were Mexicans didn't get treated right. You give great examples of why he had so much pride then show what caused him to lose some of his pride or broke it down. Great Job!
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