Theme Of Nobody's Son By Luis Alberto Urrea

The memoir my group and I chose to read was called Nobody’s Son by: Luis Alberto Urrea. He was born in 1955 in Tijuana, Mexico, where most of this book takes place. Urrea is a very well educated man who enjoys art and through interviews I have watched, you can tell he has a very smooth way to speaking and communicating. His father was Mexican and he had an American mother. His family immigrated to the United States illegally when Luis was only three years old. He grew up in a very unstable environment where he was verbally and physically abused. Not only did he have this horrible upbringing but also his health wasn’t on his side either. He was very sick with many different diseases. He and his family crossed the boarder right around the time when his health was very bad. Today, Luis Alberto Urrea is a well-known author, publisher, poet and father. Currently he is living in

On numerous occasions his father was over stepping his boundaries and inflicting both emotional and physical pain on his son. These actions, if occurring in the United States would have been an issue that CPS could have handled. But since this did not take place in that time period, it went unnoticed. On page 148 Luis’s father stuck him in my face for a reason that was so minuscule and unintentional. While visiting his grandparents, “My father had quick reflexes. Before anyone could say a word, he was out of his seat, roaring my name. He grabbed my ankle and hoisted me into the air upside down and struck me in the face. And they, upside down, staring at me with their mouths open—silent.” This was not even the worst of the abuse he went though as a young child. The verbal abuse came when he was learning to bike and swim, where his father and a friend laughed and called him names when he did not perform “like a man.” This destroyed him inside and through his reading his stories, you find out that it was very traumatizing as a young