After I Pick The Fruit Analysis

After I Pick the Fruit, a documentary, records the lives of five immigrant farmworker women, with only two of them being documented over approximately a ten-year span. This film shows the development of several friendships made between the filmmaker, Nancy Ghertner, and each of the five immigrant farmworker women. The names of these five women are Soledad, Vierge, Maria, Elisa, and Lorena. This illustrates the struggle these women go through to satisfy their roles as workers, let alone also being a wife and a mother. As the filmmaker learned more about these women, she made it her goal to raise awareness United States buyers about the cost, by people like these women, to have fresh produce at their grocery store, throughout this film. It also made me look at the found at the dining halls on campus, and how they got there. One impactful theme conveyed in After I Pick the Fruit was the started and ended that showed the viewer with the apple orchards in Sodus, NY. Thus, it emphasizes the …show more content…
Soledad had to dropped out school at age 12 because her parent could no longer afford it, making her partially illiterate (much like the Bangladesh women in the film we watched earlier this semester). She then went to work cleaning and cooking until she met her now husband at age 17. Soledad’s husband, a few months later, left to find work in the United States. This left Soledad, like the women from the microcredit film, trying to support herself by selling crackers in the street until her husband eventually found work on a fruit farm near Sodus. After working for the same farmer, they were left with a choice to return to their home in Mexico, or face the continued stress and anxiety caused by the ICE agent raids. This film also follows a group of residents who stand watch, looking for ICE agents outside the “underground” Catholic Church, while a numerous amount of undocumented immigrants were