Progression One: Reading & Responding to Texts
For today’s reading I decided to read “The Silent Words” by Ines Arredondo. This story was about a chinamans struggle to live in Mexico because he wasn’t like most mexicans. From what I could tell he immigrated from china a long time before this story took place. He works for a man named Don Hernan who sympathized with the chinese.The chinese man has adapted the name Manuel and his real chinese name is never revealed. Manuel had a wife who he called Lu, because he couldn’t call her by her actual name. He had three kids with her but she ended up leaving him for another man taking the kids with her. He is liked by the community but he’s unable to communicate with them properly. In the end he seems to commit suicide because his kids take the land that was left to Manuel by Don Hernan.
I liked this story. I did not realize that there were asians living in central american countries. i realize that they too suffer discrimination while living there. The way that Manuels life was portrayed as discriminatory seems similar to what thousand of immigrants living in the US suffer daily.
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