Into The Beautiful North Analysis

How Physical and Emotional Borders Symbolizes Differences “Human Society has dense borders - economic, religious, and cultural - inculated from an early age. We hate change” (). Borders are created by society. Society does not like change, and also doesn’t like anyone being different. Even when there is not a definite border, boundaries are still created by the actions and words of people. From some American’s point of view, all foreign people travel to America to steal our jobs and our money. American’s automatically see people that are from another country and view them as bad and different. This instantly creates a barrier between people, without there being an actual physical barrier. Throughout the book Into the Beautiful North, by Luis Alberto Urrea, borders are shown as both a physical and emotional symbol of many different things which will continue to be a problem for the characters from beginning to end. In the beginning of the book, the four main characters: Nayeli, Tacho, Yolo and Vampi decide to illegally cross from Mexico into the United States (Urrea). Nayeli and the others …show more content…
They encounter a frightening ordeal at a restaurant with a legal immigrant from Mexico. “‘You get out of here. Illegals. What about the rest of us? What about us, cabrones? I came here LEGALLY! You hear that, LEGAL. You criminals come in here, make me look bad? I’m sorry but you have to leave. Get out!’” (Urrea 281). The legal Mexican in this scene set an obvious difference between the legals immigrants and the illegal immigrants. Nayeli and Tacho did not realize that another Mexican will get mad at them for illegally crossing the border. This creates an emotional hurdle between illegal immigrant and legal immigrants. It is an emotional border that symbolizes that you can have differences even when you are extremely