Into The Beautiful North By Urrea Analysis

The department of Homeland security documents that of the 11.4 million illegal immigrants into the United States, 59% are Mexicans. However, Urrea’s message introduces the thought that, Mexicans do not come into the United States out of will but out of desperation. This is the message that the book Into the Beautiful North carries. Luis Alberto Urrea is a Mexican American immigrant who immigrated into the United States due the plagues and diseases that had infested his home back in Tijuana. He adds that it is a shame back home when a Mexican migrates north into the United States. The novel revolves around the story of a 19-year-old Nayeli who works at a taco shop and is perturbed by the laxity among her people to develop their village (Kirkus Reviews 347). The people in her village have remained traditional and she cannot ignore the fact that modernization is crawling in fast enough to take advantage of the small village especially with the drug cartels and mass immigration into the United States. She comes to realize that there are no pregnant women because all men including her father have moved north into the United States to seek work. Her …show more content…
She also understands that if she is to get into the United States, she would bring the men back to help in defending her village against the drug dealers (Publishers Weekly 35). As such, she is extra aggressive in looking for the men, and we shall see in the end, she manages to bring them home. The men she brought home would also make the women pregnant, as they would find new lovers enabling them to create babies and secure a future for her people. Her own life depends on it as her mother is a poor woman who cannot take her to the university. Nayeli relies on her aunt lrma who was a successful bowler and made a substantive investment from her