There is a deep connection between these two passages, I believe that both of these readings are trying to show the cultural struggles that are similar to each other. The connection that I made between the readings is that someone can come from different backgrounds and cultures but still suffer from similar struggles. For instance, how in the first reading, “Those Winter Sundays,” an African American boy's father wakes up early to go to work in the field, even while it is freezing. Similarly, in the second reading, “One Last Time,” a young Hispanic man talks about his mother working in the fields to support her family and him going to work in the fields as well to be able to afford new clothes for school. In the first reading, the author, Robert Hayden, explains in great detail about how his father had to wake up in the freezing cold to go to work. Before the poem even begins, the book shares his “ambivalence about his father’s sacrifices,” this is an important detail because the poem talks about his father's sacrifices by saying that his father had “cracked hands that ached from labor,” and by saying, “no one ever thanked him.” …show more content…
Soto says, “I saw my relatives, dusty and thin as sparrows, returning from the fields with hoes balanced on their shoulders. The workers were squinting, eyes small and veined, and were using their hands to say what there was to say to those in the audience with popcorn and cokes.” The way that he uses words to describe those workers helps us imagine when they looked like and acted like, helping us really understand the sacrifices that they