Profile Of Jimmy Santiago Baca By Rob Baker

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At the beginning of his profile, Rob Baker uses an anecdote that described the peculiar circumstances of Jimmy Santiago Baca’s birth. By including the healer’s dialogue, in which he predicted that Baca’s life like a snake’s skin, would constantly change, the writer foreshadows on Baca’s development as a person. For example, after Baca dropped out of school, he went from doing drugs and getting into fights to having obtaining various jobs. However, when he lost his jobs, it resulted in him dealing drugs. After the drug dealing landed him in prison, a man who hated reading, left with aspirations of teaching. If Baca hadn’t received letters from a church program, he wouldn’t have learned to read or be exposed to the world of language which undoubtedly