A Place To Stand Jimmy Santiago Baca Analysis

Miserable: Without Love and Family “Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness” is a famous quote from our country's declaration of independence. Everyone tries to fulfill these three fundamental rights, but there are times that a person doesn't have control of his or her life and doesn't see beyond what impedes him or her to pursue these rights. In addition, if that person stopped to think for a moment that his or her life can change and incorporate the fundamental rights, then that person will find peace. A peace that Jimmy Santiago Baca searched for in his young years, but didn't know where to find it until life gave him the opportunity to find peace in his writing. Even though, each person decides its own destiny sometimes life plays a stronger and important role, which no human power …show more content…
With that being said, in Jimmy Santiago Baca's “A Place to Stand”, shows how family and love were absent from the day he was born, in turn due to not having any nurture, led only to nature to upbringing him, which leads to Jimmy grows up without a family figure and living a life without learning how to love. As a result, it took Jimmy to live a miserable life full of emptiness, which almost took his life. This lead Jimmy to a life of difficulties, poverty, and crimes. Even though, each person decides its own destiny, sometimes life plays a stronger and important role, which no human power can defend from. Jimmy Santiago Baca is the perfect example of someone who was predestined to live a loveless life without a family. ““I never wanted to marry you!” “You raped me””. (9) These are the words that his mother said to his father, who was too drunk to remember what he did. (9) With