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The speaker's conflict in this section is that he is scared about crossing the border as she has to choose to either go or stay but if she stayed she could get caught. " Parked outside, Border Patrol vehicles, I had to choose" This reveals that she has to make this hard decision that she had imagined maybe over time it would had been different "erased years ago."

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The Conflict is between the world and him. It talks about real world problems then about what he has seen and how others haven't seen it or experienced it. "Body dragged out" "Make the sign of the cross" The 1st quote  is what he sees and the following quote is like what he wants to spread or releasing the "memories".

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What the poet means by the metaphor " the boundary line between the living and the dead was erased years ago" is that she expected for there to be less deaths as so many years of people crossing the border ,yet there is still a lot of people dying the "dead" and still many people crossing illegally " the living" . When she says " the violent border" we can get a sense of the suffer these people are going through while crossing.

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The conflict of speaker in this situation is that he has a hard decision to make to stay or leave but she never thought that crossing the border had so many obstacles “Maria salinas body dragged out ,her mud costume pasted with plastic bottles and crushed beer cans “ this shows that one of her biggest obstacle is to be able to survive and not fear death .She has to overcome those obstacles in order to met her goal that is passing the border .

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I think this poem is saying at this point it does not matter who is alive or dead you have to move on a go to the destination . The alive are the immigrants and the dead are the corpse of people that were there before them

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Theres still a boundary after crossing the wall, the risk which people take but because so many people want to succeed they forget about it and they get caught  and they die, or the manage to be free and follow what they want to do. And the dead is the people in the ground while the living are running over it and passing them.

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“The boundary line between the living and dead was erased years ago “  For me it means that when the people that are dead they don’t die because technically they are dead is because people forget about them and for the living she’s just expecting to see if they met their goals /destination.

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Immigrants and Americans are being contrasted by showing that immigrants are basically nothing because they are "shadows" "vanishing" and shadows are really noting compared to "walls" that normally  big and noticeable and they can sometimes stop you for continuing to go somewhere.

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His taking the same steps of other immigrants which could be living or not, but because it  says 'Vanishing in the American walls " it seems like most likely not alive. And contrast that people actually makes it and how more and more are passing by and even getting permission which makes them legal.

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I think the poet means by this metaphor "the boundary line between the living and the dead was erased years ago" the dead are the people that tried to cross the border but couldn't make it and the living are the people that could cross the border.

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"the roar of illegal death" means the harsh way immigrants have to face these deaths" body dragged out" This reveals what she had to go through just trying to make it to the U.S.

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This section could connect to world war ll because of the " 1945 explosion" In 1945 is where world war ll was ending and they had many bombings.

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I think the poem would change from the deserts point of view because we would get more of the hardships of everyone that is crossing.

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The conflict of the character is him deciding whether he wants to step up to cross the border or not"must be time to get up,i assumed". He/she starts to reflect on things towards crossing the border"awake in the sand, i feard" he/she is saying is scared to wake up in a desert.

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The “Roar of illegal death”  means that on the way to the US they’re going to struggle because not many people can survive throughout the journey.

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I think "illegal death" is saying how It doesn't matter, but its really important. Like a roar you here it but beacause is a tiger and don't want to get eaten you run from it or get far from it.

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The conflict that wants to have a change since it has problems and makes the decision to cross the border and meets an obstacle that is about surviving and now the only thing left is to see if it can cross to meet its goal

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I think it refers to the fact that on the border, as time goes by, too many people continue to die because they cannot survive the long and heavy cumin through the desert.

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I think it means that there are too many people who die in this journey and others who manage to survive to achieve their goal.

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The desert is like wealth

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the desert is like a truth and lie or delicious and disgustang

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The desert is like a ocean wide / rippling.

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The desert is like religion if you can belief it can or could be a guide.

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The desert is like anger , getting past it is the goal , but dealing with them is the obstacle .

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The desert is like life because at times it can be great but then reality hits you

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The desert is like a red rose because ...

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The desert is like destiny

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The desert is like hell because of the hotness

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the desert is like food, it looks "nice" but it can have consequences -Jair

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The connection between the atomic bomb and the state of El Paso is that the bomb started in Jornado And was "cut off" from El Paso a town of not a lot of good.

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That only the important wars are recognized which are most likely the big ones that cost many lives, instead of the small ones or other wars that effected other fights.

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The atomic bomb has a connection between El Paso were it "gave birth" to Jornado which was a big event then crossing and overtaking El Paso. And mentions the people scoring which people don't care but the ones who are in the event know what's happening and gets happy or mad about it, very similar process with the Bomb.

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The meaning of the cross is the faith they have and how the cross represents that faith but it also represents that hope that they will finally reach what they always wanted." praying "

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I think that one meaning can be Faith and the other death since people by their religion put a cross where a person died

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The Conflict is with him facing reality, as he finally starts to comprehend what his doing, realizing the life and death situation he is in, " I feared" or " I had to choose" -Jair

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The desert is like a hell that you make the people who cross it question if they will achieve their goals

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I would change the point of thinking of the people who think about wanting to cross it since they will know that it really is not easy and it can cost them even their lives to try to cross it

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I think it emphasizes the fact that many people who are considered "illegal" die in the area he is in - Jair

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World War l and World war ll because does are the most recent wars in that area that involved "bombs" - Jair

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Some people manage to achieve and meet their goals but many do not and die trying, they are dangers that many take as the

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The use of the repetition of "Awake" represents the theme of not giving on to keep persevering as she continue waking up no matter how bad conditions were. This connects to the speakers conflict of not knowing if she could continue to cross but she has to.

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I think that the conflict is that she is trying to decide whether or not to stay or leave because in a quote she says "Parked outside, Border Patrol vehicles, I had to choose" this quote is trying to tell us that the person saying this is trying to immigrate to the U.S but she is having 2nd thoughts.

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speakers conflict is an unsure feeling because he had a tough decision when he had to cross the border.

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This section refers to World War l and World War ll because there is a lot of bombs involved in this poem and because she said "I choke 1945 explosion in the sand" and 1945 was the World War ll Era.

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border is between America and desert and the life is the America and dead the remains in the desert which means crossers.

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walls you can clearly see them standing there still like america, but shadows move around but nobody pays attention like immigrants.

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“The roar of illegal death “ means how they are illustrating how immigrants had to overcome the biggest obstacle of their live by going through the desert  and die there just to have better life which every immigrant wished.

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. Americans and immigrants are contrasted by showing how she is experienced the same things that immigrants had gone through and Americans have the “permission” or they are allow to do anything because they are legal “vanishing in the Americans walls “ is like they are desapiring themselves without meeting their goal.

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This poem refers to World War I and World War II and it gives details like “bomb “ or the date .

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In “One El Paso, Two El Paso” Ray Gonzalez uses paradox to reveal that dessert cannot only be dreadful but both harming and beautiful, However the speaker feels like if he goes to the desert it would mostly be terrifying.

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In my opinion , the meaning of the cross it would be the faith and suffering and trials .

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I would change the actions of the people because I feel like they are giving up so fast overthink negative stuff during the desert but the only thing to survive the desert is to don’t look back and just have faith on yourself that you can do it .

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The terms “immigration shadows” and “American walls” are simply defining how immigrants don’t matter and mean nothing because they are “shadows”.The shadows are dark areas that are blocked from the Americans who don’t want immigrants to be more powerful. Americans have the power and are able to do thing legally while immigrants can’t.

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The speaker’s conflict in the section is him feeling unsure about crossing the border, he is scared to do it and get a bad outcome from it.

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In the poem “the roar of illegal death” signifies how the “illegal” people want to be heard from their struggles and they want to overcome those struggles. They want to be heard but they aren’t given chances and no one wants to understand them.

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This poem can be referred to as World War I and World War II because they fought for their right to have a certain country for better resources just how immigrants want to fight for their rights and have better resources, so they try to get out of those situations.

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The atomic bomb and the state of El Paso  have a connection because in Jornado, where the nuclear device was set to be tested, it mentions how they were scoring.

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The speakers conflict is the fear that has built up over him undecided wether to cross the border or not .

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In " One El Paso , Two Paso " Ray Gonzalez , uses metaphors and tone to show the dessert is a obstacle to overcome as it comes with fear .

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it talks about world war 1 and 2. just like fighting for their country, the immigrants are fighting to have good resources.

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in poem, the  poet uses symbolism and imagery to reveal that the complex relationship between desert and speaker.

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In "One El Paso, Two El Paso" Ray Gonzales uses tone and symbolism to demonstrated how the speaker and the desert have had a toxic enter actions, but the speaker respects the deserts power and danger.

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In "One El Paso, Two El Paso" Gonzales uses imagery and symbolism to describe the speakers reverence of the desert, However the desert also claims the lives that cross it.

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In "One El Paso, Two El Paso" uses symbol and methapor to reveal that that the speaker and the desert have a diverse relationship, However it can jump bad or to good.

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In "One El Paso, Two El Paso" Ray Gonzales uses imagery to explain or let us know that people don't like the desert, its like their worst enemy because of all the deaths and background history the desert has.