"To think of his or her plight only in terms of desperation fails to honer his or her full humanity. Of course there is desperation; everywhere it uproots and drives masses across borders in swelling numbers."
"The length of the entire U.S -Mexico border is almost two thousand miles; human rights groups estimate that at least one person a day dies trying to cross it."
These three lines are effective to me because they are a
combination of fact and emotions that both give me a feeling of sentiment
toward the characters in this piece. Demetria does a good job in making the
reader feel sentimental toward the immigrants through her own poetic point of
view and also through factual information.
The first two lines develop a sense of hardships within the
setting of the immigrants traveling, to cross the border. Her use of words is
effective in putting me as a reader into a particular feeling towards the
immigrants. The word plight indicates hardships and difficulties throughout
the immigrant’s journey. Also she uses a poetic way of showing the amount of
immigrants traveling; "swollen numbers". Using swollen as opposed to
using the word large gives a personal sentiment and feeling of sympathy toward
the amount of people having to travel and
survive through their plight across the border.
Demetria uses prose style in her writing along with cold
facts. Cold in a sense of emotional distance toward the facts she includes in
this piece. This writing was very effective and eye opening. It gave me a
new perspective on illegal citizens in America from Mexico and their journey
and fight to cross the border.
I chose Demetria’s “Inherit theEarth; The Things They
Carried” because her style of writing in this piece is one I can relate to and
one I admire. She also sets a good example of how to incorporate a heavy amount
of sentiment along with facts to create a good nonfiction piece of writing.
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