Breaking Through , by Francisco Jimenez, is a book, about a young boy Panchito and his family who are migrant workers living in California. The book is about how the family struggles through their life of poverty, and how they would move around California to find work in fields during each season. The first chapter of the book is about when Panchito and his family get deported back to Mexico because they were illegal and only the father had his green card, so their family was not allowed to stay in California. Throughout the chapter, the rest of the family work to obtain their green cards so that they could go back to California. Since the family was in poverty they were not able to all go back to California, so Panchito and his brother Roberto go back to California …show more content…
Chapter four and five are about the family returning to California and how overjoyed
Panchito and Roberto were to see their family, except for the fact that they had to go back and work in the field to pick strawberries. Throughout the two chapters, the family gets their own land and become sharecroppers until the strawberry plants all die, and the land has to be given up. Chapters six through nine are mainly about Panchito’s end of the school year in junior high the summer before he attended high school, and some of his struggles through high school. In chapter ten, Roberto got a job as a janitor and Panchito got a job washing windows, which was a big help for their family, the money they made was the only thing getting the family by, because their father could no longer work much. Chapters eleven and twelve were again about
Panchito attending school and his struggle with english, yet with all of his classes he worked extremely hard to be successful. Chapter thirteen through nineteen are also about school and
Panchito becoming more involved in extracurriculars, and making friends. Though