Question

How

does Urrea in the book By the Lake of Sleeping Children inform the reader about something they
know nothing about? How does he startle us with shock value to reach us in new ways
and expand our line of vision into immigrant issues? in other words, even though we
“think” we know about immigrant discrimination, how it’s used for scapegoating and
politics, but what happens to us when we really read about it? How are we confronted
with a new reality? What is the new reality you have on this? Why might people be angry
about how immigrants are viewed in our country? In what ways does he offer hope?

Answer 1

the Lake of Sleeping Children explores the post-NAFTA and Proposition 187 border purgatory of garbage pickers and dump dwellers, gawking tourists, and relief workers, fearsome coyotes, and their desperate clientele. In 16 indelible portraits, Urrea illuminates the horrors and the simple joys of people trapped between the two worlds of Mexico and the United States—and ignored by both. The result is a startling and memorable work of first-person reportage.

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