In The Country We Love Analysis

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“In The Country We Love” By Diane Guerrero is a written masterpiece. Many people will not talk, let alone write about their illegal status or anyone they know that is illegal because of fear. What Diane Guerrero did is give a voice to those whose felt voiceless because of their illegal status. She let go of her fear and spoke for those in the same or in similar positions of their lives. She wrote about what is the reality for many families living illegally in the U.S. Writing about herself was not the main point, but writing about the situations many families have to go through daily is the path she was seeking for the audience to understand and

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