https://padlet.com/19mumleyj/kwcjdcwr4oe Blah en-us 2016-09-09 12:54:58 UTC 2017-05-17 04:06:33 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.com/19mumleyj/kwcjdcwr4oe/wish/123428625 Delaney hit a man with his car, and showed little concern for the victim (his primary concern went to the car). At the end of the chapter, Delaney told Kyra (wife?) that the reason he didn't do any more than give the victim $20 was due to the fact that he was Mexican.]]> 2016-09-13 13:22:34 UTC https://padlet.com/19mumleyj/kwcjdcwr4oe/wish/123428625 https://padlet.com/19mumleyj/kwcjdcwr4oe/wish/123723544 Why is Delaney so racist?]]> 2016-09-14 12:07:02 UTC https://padlet.com/19mumleyj/kwcjdcwr4oe/wish/123723544 https://padlet.com/19mumleyj/kwcjdcwr4oe/wish/124318345 Delaney is being biased toward the coyote as it probably needs the dog for food, while Delaney still has a job and a dog to spare.

The people who crashed Candido and America's camp are biased - and acting upon it - towards Candido and America as they are illegal immigrants.]]> 2016-09-16 12:51:15 UTC https://padlet.com/19mumleyj/kwcjdcwr4oe/wish/124318345 https://padlet.com/19mumleyj/kwcjdcwr4oe/wish/124320119 How are Candido and America going to rebuild from this unfortunate disaster?]]> 2016-09-16 12:54:18 UTC https://padlet.com/19mumleyj/kwcjdcwr4oe/wish/124320119 19mumleyj https://padlet.com/19mumleyj/kwcjdcwr4oe/wish/124709873 He's a white American male, with a standard home and income. He doesn't try to see the perspective of someone who isn't American perhaps because it was how he was raised to think]]> 2016-09-19 12:52:19 UTC https://padlet.com/19mumleyj/kwcjdcwr4oe/wish/124709873 19mumleyj https://padlet.com/19mumleyj/kwcjdcwr4oe/wish/124711153 Why was Candido so against letting America go out alone to get necessary items when he does it all the time? Is it because she's a woman and he's sexist, or does he believe that she'll get hurt?]]> 2016-09-19 12:55:26 UTC https://padlet.com/19mumleyj/kwcjdcwr4oe/wish/124711153 19nicholss https://padlet.com/19mumleyj/kwcjdcwr4oe/wish/125384245 Candido loves his wife and feels guilty that he brought her, young and inexperienced, from her home country to this strange place,. I don't feel that he is sexist. He is a concerned husband, afraid of something bad happening to someone he loves.]]> 2016-09-21 13:17:34 UTC https://padlet.com/19mumleyj/kwcjdcwr4oe/wish/125384245 https://padlet.com/19mumleyj/kwcjdcwr4oe/wish/125385738 Or both...]]> 2016-09-21 13:20:35 UTC https://padlet.com/19mumleyj/kwcjdcwr4oe/wish/125385738 https://padlet.com/19mumleyj/kwcjdcwr4oe/wish/125387051 But she risks that happening to him every time he goes out to try to find a job. We assume she doesn't have a fit over his absence.]]> 2016-09-21 13:23:24 UTC https://padlet.com/19mumleyj/kwcjdcwr4oe/wish/125387051 19nicholss https://padlet.com/19mumleyj/kwcjdcwr4oe/wish/125583506 Delaney cares so much about the Earth and what people's actions are doing to it. (Page 32) We see him displaying conscience, so why does he appear to be so callous to other people? ]]> 2016-09-22 00:13:37 UTC https://padlet.com/19mumleyj/kwcjdcwr4oe/wish/125583506 19nicholss https://padlet.com/19mumleyj/kwcjdcwr4oe/wish/125585234 In Delaney's conversation with Jack Jr. they both refer to Candidio and the immigrant population as "them". How would that conversation have differed if Delaney had a more lenient point of view?]]> 2016-09-22 00:31:49 UTC https://padlet.com/19mumleyj/kwcjdcwr4oe/wish/125585234 19mumleyj https://padlet.com/19mumleyj/kwcjdcwr4oe/wish/125901017 Okay someone please explain why Delaney is holding onto the friggin dog's foreleg???]]> 2016-09-23 02:20:42 UTC https://padlet.com/19mumleyj/kwcjdcwr4oe/wish/125901017 19mumleyj https://padlet.com/19mumleyj/kwcjdcwr4oe/wish/125903858 Oh thank God, he buried it]]> 2016-09-23 02:52:02 UTC https://padlet.com/19mumleyj/kwcjdcwr4oe/wish/125903858 https://padlet.com/19mumleyj/kwcjdcwr4oe/wish/127213469 Maybe others disagree with him, and so they're a little rude to each other...?]]> 2016-09-29 11:59:46 UTC https://padlet.com/19mumleyj/kwcjdcwr4oe/wish/127213469 https://padlet.com/19mumleyj/kwcjdcwr4oe/wish/127213750 They probably wouldn't have referred to the immigrant population as "them" for one thing.]]> 2016-09-29 12:01:06 UTC https://padlet.com/19mumleyj/kwcjdcwr4oe/wish/127213750 https://padlet.com/19mumleyj/kwcjdcwr4oe/wish/127214053 I've now finished the book, (but haven't been commenting about it because I don't really see the point on doing so) and the first thing I have to say, without ruining anything, is that it has a really stupid ending. It ends right in the middle of an action scene! I've said too much already... Anyway, throughout the entirety of the story, we see two opposite points of view whose blind spot is the other point of view. On the one hand, we have the white population, those who only bought houses in Arroyo Blanco Estates (translates to "White Stream) because of the amount of appreciation that will pile up. The Americans decide to completely ruin the landscape to get money by selling houses as Kyra thinks or to get inspired to continue write more newspaper columns as Delaney thinks. It's a place to live to get away from the rest of the world and get money. That's the whole reason the place was built! On the other hand, there are the Mexicans and other illegal immigrants who have crossed the border and are fugitives in the eyes of the law, but really only want a better future for those they love but don't have the money to support. The reason the white population sees the immigrant population as thieves and hobos who steal without mercy, would do anything for spare change, and don't care about anything is because that's all they see. If Delaney knew Candido and America's story and their fight for survival, the (I'm trying not to reveal anything) ending would very likely have been different... As Mays Gilliam (leading character in the comedy movie "Head of State") said "How can you help the poor if you've never been poor?" Those in the white community want the Mexicans off their property, but Delaney, as much as he wants to get rid of the Mexicans, kind of wants to help them. He felt a little sorry for them when the Council decided to shut down the labor-exchange wondering what they would do next and where they would do it. If more of the whites had Delaney's point of view towards the subject, but more so, the Mexicans would be better off. I think the labor exchange shouldn't have been shut down in the first place, when someone wants something really dirty or boring done, their going to go to the Mexicans, because they know the whites won't do it; and with the Mexicans gone, who's going to build the wall the Council's been talking about? On the Mexican side, the close of the labor-exchange is a total life changer for the worse, as if it hasn't been bad enough. They're already down to living in a cave, a little hunting, working whenever they can, and storing their money on a peanut butter jar that's stuffed under a rock. Without the labor-exchange, there's no work, which leads to no money which leads to no food, which leads to having to move somewhere else where there is the potential of work. What the whites don't realize is that if they really want to get rid of the Mexicans, you have to help them, then get them to live somewhere else. If you make it harder for them, they might go somewhere else, but as long as it's on foot, it won't be that far.]]> 2016-09-29 12:02:23 UTC https://padlet.com/19mumleyj/kwcjdcwr4oe/wish/127214053 19nicholss https://padlet.com/19mumleyj/kwcjdcwr4oe/wish/131112511 "The Salvaddorans, the Mexicans, the blacks, the gangbangers and taggers and carjackers they read about in the Metro section over their bran toast and coffee. That's why they abandoned the flatlands of the Valley and the hills of the Westside..."(38 ,5, 13-16)
This quote is from Delaney's point of view. He says they wanted to get out of the city to escape the riff-raff (so to speak). His bias towards people from other cultures, from poorer areas, and even criminals is evident in this quote.]]> 2016-10-17 12:58:51 UTC https://padlet.com/19mumleyj/kwcjdcwr4oe/wish/131112511 19nicholss https://padlet.com/19mumleyj/kwcjdcwr4oe/wish/131112612 "]]> 2016-10-17 12:59:01 UTC https://padlet.com/19mumleyj/kwcjdcwr4oe/wish/131112612 19nicholss https://padlet.com/19mumleyj/kwcjdcwr4oe/wish/131115612 "After a moment he got up and waded into the stream to try to recover his things,  and it was then that he noticed their parting gift, a message emblazonded on the rocks in paint that dripped like blood. The letters were crude and the words in English, but there was no mistaking the meaning: BEANERS DIE." (62, 3, 6-11)
The bias in this quote is clear. After two American men stumble upon Candidio and America's camp and destroy it, they leave a crude message for Candidio to find. The word "beaner" is a derogatory slur directed toward Mexicans. The message was clear; these white men don't like immigrants and want them to leave.]]> 2016-10-17 13:04:37 UTC https://padlet.com/19mumleyj/kwcjdcwr4oe/wish/131115612 19nicholss https://padlet.com/19mumleyj/kwcjdcwr4oe/wish/131115635 2016-10-17 13:04:40 UTC https://padlet.com/19mumleyj/kwcjdcwr4oe/wish/131115635 19nicholss https://padlet.com/19mumleyj/kwcjdcwr4oe/wish/131121366 "Most people had no taste. No dream of it. Not a clue. And yet they all thought they had it-were smug about it even-and they'd walk right out the door because of an unfortunate lamp or a deep plush shag carpet in a shade they couldn't fathom." (70, 2, 4-7) 
Here you can see some of Kyra's biases toward her clients and people in general. She feels that almost all people are tasteless and common, that they can't be bothered with decor. As you read further, you also see that she really is a negative person who hates herself, her appearance, her job and more.]]> 2016-10-17 13:16:37 UTC https://padlet.com/19mumleyj/kwcjdcwr4oe/wish/131121366 19nicholss https://padlet.com/19mumleyj/kwcjdcwr4oe/wish/131766701 2016-10-19 13:11:14 UTC https://padlet.com/19mumleyj/kwcjdcwr4oe/wish/131766701 19nicholss https://padlet.com/19mumleyj/kwcjdcwr4oe/wish/131766747 "The ones coming in through the Tortilla Curtain down there, those are the ones that are killing us. They are peasants, my friend. No education, no resources, no skills-all they've got to offer is a strong back, and the irony is that we need fewer and fewer strong backs every day...." (101, 3, 6-9)

Delaney's friend is showing bias toward Mexican immigrants. ]]> 2016-10-19 13:11:23 UTC https://padlet.com/19mumleyj/kwcjdcwr4oe/wish/131766747