Under The Same Moon Stereotypes

Immigration has become a major concern in the U.S for many foreigners that try to cross the border in order to have a better life than from the country in which they come from. Most people are willing to sacrifice themselves to overcome the journey to be able to help support their families from poverty. But, others don’t for the fact that they can either get caught by the border patrol and get sent back to their country in which they started from or they can get killed from hunger, thirst, and get manipulated by the drug traffickers along the way. In the film “Under the Same Moon”, directed by Patricia Riggen in 2007 is a melodrama that tells the story on the point of view of a child named Carlitos as he goes on the journey of leaving Mexico and coming to Los Angeles in search of his mother Rosario as she works as a housemaid for a rich family in order to send money to her son she left behind. The stereotype being portrayed is one of the general aspect of what many Mexican Immigrants goes through and the challenges they have to interface whether it is financial, family, low status or racial issues as

As an immigrant child, most of them don’t understand the reason why their parents or any family member leave them behind and would sometimes think that they were either abandoned or their families doesn’t love them anymore when in reality they have too in order to help them live a better life from what they are experiencing. A scene that portrays this is in the beginning of the film as Carlitos and his mother both have a chance to communicate through a public telephone every Sunday morning and he would ask when she would come back. She would mention she would go back soon but in reality it doesn’t happen that