Ruben Martinez, \"The Crossing\" He Talks About

¶ … 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 Indians. 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 it is as small as something as speaking differently to one another.

In the poem, "Child of Americas," that was wrote by Aurora Levins Morales promotes her myth on this piece of poetry that she wrote because she talks about how different she is and her background of a mixture of Spanish (Taino), African-American, and European, and she even commented at the end of how she cannot help that that is what is "in her" yet that is her background therefore she cannot change the fact that is made who she is. The language of the poem shows me that have slander and very English American and a diverse amount of people that live as a minority and from all different ethnicities could understand what the author is saying in her poem.