What are the consequences of sacrificing your pride in order to overcome your struggles? In chapter 15 Juan Salvador arrives in California because of a letter his sister has sent him regarding his mother dying if he doesn't go soon to California. When Juan arrives he slowly starts to realize that Mexicans like him self are treated like dogs from the Americans. The first time he sacrificed his pride for his struggles was when he got a job setting up dynamite where he noticed how he was getting treated. The Americans slurred his last name in a way that dis-- respected him but he ignored them. It wasn't until he started drilling with the other American drillers when he began to notice that they were giving him the eye to show him that they didn't like him. Juan ignored this as well but he was keeping a steady drilling on the rock that the Americans became competitive and started to race him. Juan and the Americans kept racing but after awhile it came to him and an American named Jack. The competition grew but the lunch horn blew and they stopped working. Juan followed the Americans to where they went to wash their hands and realized the Americans dropped the cup when it was his turn to wash his hands. Juan ignored this thinking it was a mistake but when he bent over to try to pick up the cup the American kicked it away. This made Juan lower his head and suck his pride so he could later overcome this struggle by showing off to these Americans how good of a driller he was. Unfortunately Juan came soon to realize that this back fired in he almost got killed with a bunch of tools coming straight towards him from up the rock. "I shouldn't have pushed so much"(pg 258) Juan said to the Mexicans who were digging below him were he was drilling. In this quote Juan shows that if he wants to overcome this unfair struggle he faces with the Americans he has to sacrifice his pride to overcome this so he can feed his family. Juan realizes if he doesn't do this he will put his family in jeopardy because he won't have a job if he talks back to these Americans like if he was American that demanded to be treated right. Juan now knows that he has to sacrifice his pride to overcome his struggle.
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Aloha Jerry
ReplyDeleteI agree with your blog. I feel that by overcoming your struggles people do need to sacrifice their pride so they can help themselves and family. Usually when a person wants to keep their job or live in a world where everyone is treated differently high, middle, or low class they need to find ways to get around even through they are mistreated
I think that you did a good job in answering the question. You used a good example that answered the question and supported what you had to say. Your response was very thoughtful and it showed your understanding of the question. For next time i would suggest that your response be a bit longer but other than that it was very good.
ReplyDeletelol this is really weird your example from the book is similar to mine. But anyways you did a really good job answering the questions those examples really did connecet to your question. But what you should do next time is that you should find examples from other places like from your own experience or from a diff text it will definitly make your responces better.
ReplyDeleteI agree with what u said. I liked the example you put in your blog about how he needed to sacrifice his pride in order for him to help out his family. Mine was almost the same I also wrote about him giving up his pride in order for him to survive.
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