Summary Of So Mexicans Are Taking Jobs From Americans

Jimmy Baca’s “So Mexicans Are Taking Jobs from Americans” deals with the topic of Mexicans being treated as less instead of equal as people in general, including for the work they do and for being immigrants. Immigrants are often thought to take jobs away from Americans when in fact they simply take the jobs that no one wants to do and are willing to get paid even less (Hoban). Jimmy Baca’s “So Mexicans Are Taking Jobs from Americans” is a poem written in ten stanzas and a couplet. The poem is written in free-verse, meaning it does not adhere to any pattern of rhythm and contains no meter. The title of the poem, “So Mexicans Are Taking Jobs from Americans” implies the author may be using sarcasm throughout the work. From the title, it can be

In Julia Alvarez’s “Woman’s Work”, she discusses women’s work being considered lower than others work. Julia Alvarez then proves this wrong as she describes the amount of discipline that goes into a woman’s work such as cleaning a house. The author then describes the long hours she was forced to spend cleaning the house. Often, the author’s mother would make her work until the sun went down, not allowing her to go outside and play with her friends. The woman then ends up becoming just like her mother as much as she hates it. Just like her mother, the woman works at home doing what she loves the most, writing. In Jimmy Baca’s “So Mexicans Are Taking Jobs from Americans”, he discusses Mexicans immigrating into America. Jimmy Baca goes on to discuss the problem with anger and sarcasm. He thinks that Americans are hypocritical on the issue. He focuses on the fact that there are many rich people in America living comfortably while there are many Mexicans who want to immigrate to America so that they can have a better life and pull themselves up out of poverty. Jimmy Baca sees the hypocrisy in that the rich Americans say they are against Mexicans coming and taking American jobs, when in fact they are just against Mexicans coming to America and affecting their business. Furthermore, he sees the hypocrisy in that white farmers

The women in “Women’s Work” just want to be recognized for the hard work that they put in that is equal if not greater to the amount of work put in by anybody else. The Mexicans in Jimmy Baca’s “So Mexicans Are Taking Jobs from Americans” just want to be recognized for the fact that their home country is not safe and is suffering from poverty and when they come to America for something better than that, they get treated poorly by the American population. Both poems incorporate the idea of being held hostage. In “Woman’s Work”, the daughter is kept hostage by her mother in order to clean all day and not go outside and play. In “So Mexicans Are Taking Jobs from Americans”, the author sarcastically talks of Mexicans holding Americans hostage for the jobs until they give them up. Both poems also incorporate body parts into their poem. In Julia Alvarez’s work, she talks of a woman’s heart and relates it to how much she should value her duties. In Jimmy Baca’s piece of literature, he speaks of ribs jutting out from the Mexican to show how impoverished they are. Julia Alvarez deals with the topic in a much more mild manner than Jimmy Baca. This is shown by Jimmy Baca’s use of sarcasm and a tone of anger. Julia Alvarez instead lays out her points in a logical manner, using a personal narrative to get her point across. The difference is further shown by the fact that Julia Alvarez’s poem uses a rhyme