Summary Of Into The Beautiful North By Luis Alberto Urrea

Living in the Phoenix area, we our politics and local news are often very involved with the issue of immigration into the U.S. from Mexico. We hear politicians going into rants about the apparently ‘damaging’ effects of illegal immigration – with the immigrant activist camp firing back with an equally lengthy and provocative tirade. Mexican American author Luis Alberto Urrea tackled this topic with humor, insight and common sense in his novel, “Into the Beautiful North.” Throughout his novel, Urrea confronts a wide range of issues, ranging from economics, xenophobia, and even feminism. Most importantly, Urrea covers the way that these issues fold into the wider issue of immigration and its real-life impacts on a group of friends. The story

These people were accustomed to migrants in their town, and noted that Mexicans were “welcome there.” Perhaps this shows that with greater prevalence, and the softener that is time, attitudes can and will be changed in regard to Mexican nationals living and working within our communities. It is my naïve hope that the kindness shown toward Nayeli and Tacho in the late stages of the novel is more common than the xenophobic rhetoric witnessed throughout the book. If this is not the case, I sincerely hope that it will become so very soon – and I hope that others will do their part to make this a reality, regardless of their political opinion of the

Her political ambitions display a need for the involvement of women in local politics – and the grassroots support she maintains with Nayeli as her campaign manager displays the effectiveness of involved women. Post-revolutionary Mexico has an impressive history of feminism – and in a culture filled with stories of machismo, the Mexican women seems to maintain a role of strong role of authority. It would have been nice for Urrea to deal with this topic differently – though I applaud him for incorporating it at