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Hope is not Enough
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Hope is Not Enough
Tomas Rivera’s book, …And The Earth Did Not Devour Him, is a fictional book with short stories of a community of farm worker families and immigrants. Studying the book in detail, we see that Rivera is trying to say that farm workers and immigrants need to take action and not just pray for things to change like what the characters do. Farm workers have always been treated unfairly as if they were not humans, but animals. Rivera illustrates the severe conditions that farmers live in and how they only hope for their situation to change. ... He is questioning his life and religion, something all other characters are not doing. We see through the short stories that change is needed in his community and that their hope is not enough.
Throughout the beginning of the story we get that the boys life is almost a living hell and all that people in his community have is hope. ... ” we see hope because in this short passage the lady has already been informed by the government that her son is missing in action yet she still has hope that he is alive. She goes to a psychic in hope that the psychic will tell her that her son is fine and that the government was mistaken. ... The psychic tells her what she wanted to hear, that her son is not dead. ... She still has the hope that her son is alive and does not want to face reality. She does not want to accept the truth and because she believes in God, she has hope that her son is alive. ... He feels isolated because he cannot tell his parents what has happened at school and he is also confused because he does not know what to do. ... Maybe not. ... The boy is scared of telling his parents because they have the hope for him to become a telephone operator. ... He does not want to disappoint his parents because he is their hope for a better life. ... He begins to notice that their life does not change, that hope is just hope, and that it does not change anything. ... He does not understand all that is going on. He questions everything especially their religion and their hope for their lives to improve. ... One night, the boy decides to find out for himself whether or not he is the devil, but before he goes outside he contemplates what could happen if he goes outside. ... No, I better not say it. ... He begins to question what is real and what is not. ... At this point the boy is going to begin to ask more and more questions as to why all these things are happening and why people in his community do not question anything, but just hope things will get better.
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Title: Hope is not Enough
Words: 2222
Rating: None
Pages: 8.9
submitted by: wortega
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