Panchito came home from another day of work. He opened the door to his shack. What he saw was all the stuff boxed up and ready to move. Panchito, from the story “The Circuit” by Francisco Jiménez, is part of a migrant family. A migrant family is a family that has to move to find work. Several weeks in the life of Panchito’s migrant family teach us that what is normal for us is far from that for this young boy. Yet, Panchito faces the uncertainty of each move bravely, following the comedic mode of literature.
Every six months or so Panchito has to move. That means he has to leave his school, his friends, and his community. Panchito does not like it when they move. Every time he has to leave something. In the most recent move he leaves his friend, the teacher.
The reason Panchito has to move is because he is poor and needs to find work. Panchito has to work sun up till sun down. He, his brother, and his father only make around 15 dollars a day all three of them combined. Panchito is only in 6th grade and he’s working as long as possible. Would you want to work up to fourteen hours?
After Panchito’s most recent move he works in the grape fields. When that season is over he goes to school. On the first day his teacher asks him to read from an English book, and he’s Spanish. Then his teacher helps him learn English. The teacher becomes Panchito’s best friend and is going to teach him the trumpet but before he can Panchito has to move again.
Panchito moved to a farm at the beginning of the story, a normal event for him, and then is forced to move again at the conclusion, again normal for him, thus, completing the plot line of the comedic mode. After reading about Panchito’s family, the story teaches us a normal life for Panchito is nothing like normal life for you and me. How would you feel if you just found something you liked and then had to leave it? Even today there are many people without long term homes. What would you do if you were in a migrant family? So as you can see Panchito’s life isn’t horrible but it is not the best either.
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I like how you have organized your information to go through the story bit by bit in the order that the events occurred. The fact that he loses something each time he moves, is a horrible thing for anyone to have to deal with. i would disagree, however, that it is comedy. Moving is chaotic, and for any person not a good, normal state. Normalcy really means that state of living we all desire. We don't really desire some goofy fantasy to come true, but we do want a reliable, normal life full of situations we can overcome, with the help of friends and family. For Panchito, there is no real hope, as his family is the cause of his moving. It's almost like the exact opposite of the short story "Home". Did you get a chance to read that yet? Anyway, it's fun to have discussions that disagree on a blog; that's sort of the whole point. Thanks for inviting me to read what you wrote.
ReplyDeleteI also liked how you organized the passage but it would have been even better if you would leave us hanging in the last part.I know you would like to grab the readers attention and start thinking something random. Also what Mr.J said their is NO hope for Panchito so why leave us hanging we already know that he is going to farm go to school and move again blah blah blah!!!! the story is good but there is lots of thing to change im not here to make a bad influence on the readers or the story im here to do it on you because your the writer and you do not know who is reading this and who wants to be a writer.
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