Summary Of Mexican Is Not A Noon By Francisco Alarcon

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"'Mexican' Is Not A Noun" by Francisco Alarcon, minorities have no agency, which means activities are done to them and they don't have control over what occurs in their lives. Towards the start of the poem, Alarcon says that Mexican is not "a thing or a descriptive word”. In the next stanza, he says that Mexican is “a life, long, low-paying job”.Alarcon utilizes similar sounding word usage by beginning words with "l" to underscore that Mexican's low paying employments are for all 0f life since they can't make tracks in an opposite direction, because of their absence of an agency and general separation in the public eye. At the end of the poem, Alarcon says that Mexican “strikes, burns, just like, a verb”. Using a word such as “strike” and