Viewed from the geographical aspects, The Circuit uses Mexico and America’s California to tell the story. The narrator in the story says that, “that is how I found out he was from Jalisco, the …show more content…
Yassir’s mother appears skeptical about Emma – Yassir’s wife. In fact, Emma is an outsider in the eyes of Yassir’s mother. She would not say Emma's name. She would not 'remember' it. It would have been the same if Emma had been Jane,Alison or Susan, any woman from 'outside',” (Aboulela 1). Even conversations between Manaal and her mother has to adhere to the dictum of culture where Manaal is not supposed to look her mother straight in the eye. When Manaal is speaking to Yassir, she must not look straight in his eyes. In The Circuit, the language seems to point at identity. Papa always speak English with some broken Spanish – ‘Ya esora,’ he yelled in his broken Spanish,” (Jimenez 1). Again, when the narrator is at school, the linguistic plays a part in how he interacts with people. “When I entered I heard a woman’s voice say: "May I help you?" I was startled,” (Jimenez 4). In other words, the narrator has a different language that affects marks his identity as an outsider in that foreign