Panchito Empathy

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Panchito’s family is impacted positively from the empathy of the camp foreman because he helped them find work. Panchito’s family are farm workers who move around every season for work. It was that time of the year where the family had to start looking for work. They packed everything in their car and went out to look for jobs. As they drove along, they drove into a labor camp near Fresno. There they asked the camp foreman if they had any jobs available. The foreman told them that they don’t need more workers, but he said, “Check with Sullivan down the road. Can’t miss him. He lives in a big white house with a fence around it” (Jimenez 3). The foreman had a lot of empathy because he told them where to go since he didn’t have any work for them

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