Undocumented in L.A.
The whole book is basically written to describe the life of an undocumented immigrant in United States. The life of Yamileth Lpez, who came to US from Nicaragua. The hardships and risks that they had to go through before they arrive to US. Before coming to US she had a dream of the US which a picture was painted in her mind that everything will be much better in US here. But until when she gets here, in Los Angeles, she found out that it is not all she thought it would be. Yamileth and her son, Miguel had to leave their own country and come to US for the so call better lifestyle. Finally after the time they had travel and gone through the trouble and risks to come to US. It is not all what they had in mind. The undocumented status had them had to find the jobs and to put Miguel in school is something that is hard to do since the undocumented status. And then language problem, which is the most important barrier of all, that kept them from learning and find better opportunities for them to work and education. Later on, Yamileth found the job in Oregon, which she and Miguel went and work and live with Penny and Mark. The life there and the treatment they receive from Penny and Mark was something
that is more than what Yamileth expected. For all the modern appliances such as washer and dryer so forth, they are something that She had never seen before and never know how to operate them. She knows that she is suppose to be a worker and can't get used to the friendly treatment that Penny and Mark given them. The fact that Miguel get a better education in Oregon and the father kind of figure to Miguel which is something that Yamileth can't give to Miguel. Miguel learn English in much better environment in Oregon and with the baseball team that he was in, that don't have him out cast by others. No one there in Oregon treats them as undocumented immigrants. And it also gave Yamileth a better life and also gave her the chance to speak out her mind about the revolution since she was involved with the party and so on. Somewhere in time she was able to least the bakery and tries to make it in the US for a living. The effort was well done but the fact that they could not make it, but the one good thing that came out of that was it pull the whole family together, ever since her mother die. The whole family work hard to try to have the bakery going and to keep it in business. Also the fact that Yamileth was pregnant where she can't work as many hrs as she could but she did it anyway. Yamileth felt misplace in US where she really miss her own country, Nicaragua, although there is revolution going on, but still, she is used to that type of environment and that is where she lived for all her life. Although everything in Nicaragua is not as good as in the US but in comparison although she is in US there is still not much difference from home. Cause in US she is undoc
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Approximate Word count = 1137
Approximate Pages = 5 (250 words per page double spaced)
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