Cervantes uses figurative language to cast an imagery of negative light displayed upon human constructed elements. It is evident the use of juxtaposition placing a role of the thematic cliché what things once was and what they have become. For example, the fence equates as the “gray” cannery in comparison to the “scar” of a freeway. As a whole, the poem theme suggests characters struggle throughout the poem and needs to accept a changing world while allowing the approach to an unknown future. The name is uncanny and represents Cervantes ties with San Jose, California, which the freeway is a North-South bound highway near San Jose, and that is where Cervantes grew up. Individualism is the big message I see in the poem as stated,
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