https://padlet.com/seide087/7v9bjji4y148xcgx When We Arrive en-us 2020-10-22 17:34:08 UTC 2020-10-22 20:28:08 UTC hello@padlet.com seide087 https://padlet.com/seide087/7v9bjji4y148xcgx/wish/853539423 This story is about a bus filled with Chicano immigrants heading to a new place to work. Most of the story consists of conversations between the travelers. Under the surface, the story is about how these workers never get to truly "arrive," meaning they never get to settle down and make each place they go to their home. This story is about the difficult lives the immigrant workers lead and how they feel about their lives. They feel discouraged and tired, as they always have to move and work and move and work in a never-ending cycle of staying alive but not living.]]> 2020-10-22 17:36:20 UTC https://padlet.com/seide087/7v9bjji4y148xcgx/wish/853539423 seide087 https://padlet.com/seide087/7v9bjji4y148xcgx/wish/853589529 The untitled story before "When We Arrive" is about a man Figueroa who had recently been imprisoned for having a relationship with an underage girl. The story after "When We Arrive" is about a man Bartolo and the poems he wrote and sold. I think the story about Bartolo can be related to "When We Arrive." This story is about how Bartolo passes through town on his way home from working up north and write poems. He is traveling for work, like the characters in "When We Arrive," so I see a connection here.]]> 2020-10-22 17:46:24 UTC https://padlet.com/seide087/7v9bjji4y148xcgx/wish/853589529 seide087 https://padlet.com/seide087/7v9bjji4y148xcgx/wish/854122501 The metaphor I found occurs here, "If things go well this year, maybe we'll buy us a car so we won't have to travel this way, like cattle." I think this also demonstrates the way that the workers feel about having to travel for work and work in general. They feel as though their work tasks are mundane and perhaps they even feel that they are treated like cattle.]]> 2020-10-22 20:07:39 UTC https://padlet.com/seide087/7v9bjji4y148xcgx/wish/854122501 seide087 https://padlet.com/seide087/7v9bjji4y148xcgx/wish/854133687 For me, I began to think about the stereotypes that a lot of people have about immigrant workers. Many believe that immigrants are "stealing jobs" from Americans. In reality, these immigrant workers are usually doing the jobs that no one else wants to do. They are enduring back-breaking labor or dangerous work environments. This story made me think about the horrible and tired lives that some immigrant workers lead, and then they have to endure stereotypes like the one I mentioned as well. ]]> 2020-10-22 20:11:37 UTC https://padlet.com/seide087/7v9bjji4y148xcgx/wish/854133687 seide087 https://padlet.com/seide087/7v9bjji4y148xcgx/wish/854148477 "When We Arrive" describes the conversations between immigrant workers as they travel to new places for work. They all feel like they never truly "arrive" to their destinations, which I think makes them feel lost. This idea of feeling lost is seen throughout the book in multiple stories. The travelers feel as though they never get to settle down in their new homes, which can be seen as another metaphor for feeling lost.]]> 2020-10-22 20:15:36 UTC https://padlet.com/seide087/7v9bjji4y148xcgx/wish/854148477 seide087 https://padlet.com/seide087/7v9bjji4y148xcgx/wish/854175752 The author uses a lot of imagery throughout the book. One piece of imagery that I could really picture was the crowded bus that the travelers are on. Multiple conversations describe the crowded bus and they allowed me to be able to imagine what it was like to be on that bus.]]> 2020-10-22 20:25:44 UTC https://padlet.com/seide087/7v9bjji4y148xcgx/wish/854175752