Two minutes left in the game and we are a goal away from winning the first game of the season for my sister’s soccer team. The clock is ticking and time is running out. I sprint down the field with the ball as fast as I can when suddenly BAM! Lights out. After a minute of blacking out, all I can hear is screaming and crying with people hovering over me. I open my eyes and I try to talk and move and get back up to keep playing but I cannot. It is like I have forgotten the basic things in life that I learned when I was an infant. I was being shaken, I was dozing off, I could not respond at all. Tears are flooding in the background and I can feel the warm gentle touch of my mother’s hand caress my leg telling me everything was going to be okay.
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Individuals who are labeled as a “illegal aliens” are often faced with moments of despair where they struggle to find employment, medical insurance, and a home for their family and themselves. At times the barriers become too much to handle that immigrants begin to feel hopeless and alienated from everyone else. According to the Department of Homeland Security there was an estimated 11.4 million unauthorized immigrants living in the United States in 2012. This exemplifies the quantity of individuals who struggle with despair because of their cultural clashes with the American culture. Innocent children, men and women are constantly battling for survival in a hostile environment comprised of individuals who ridicule and isolate them based upon their current status. According to a recent study conducted by the Anxiety and Depression Association of America, there are 6.8 million Americans who struggle with Generalized Anxiety Disorder, 15 million Americans struggle with Social Anxiety Disorder, 7.7 Million struggle with Post Traumatic Stress Order, and an additional 15 million Americans struggle with Major Depressive Disorder. While documented Americans face these struggles, undocumented Immigrants face these same hardships on a much larger scale based predominantly on their label of an “illegal alien.” The stress caused by their current situation not only exemplifies the amount of …show more content…
Boyle also tend to struggle with despair but ultimately in the end they find the missing key to unlock the chains of despair and be hopeful. Candido was overcome with despair because the protagonists Delaney and Kyra are xenophobic opulent white folks who have a sense of hatred and disgust for the “illegal aliens” Candido and America. Throughout the novel, Kyra and Delaney were irritable with the “illegal aliens.” Kyra protested to get them deported and Delaney was vicious and violent. Between the two of them, they both created such a hatred for Candido and America, that Delaney finally draws the line and wants to do something about it. At the end of the novel, Delaney attempts to murder Candido and America for the vandalism on the wall surrounding the neighborhood, although he knows that they were not the ones who did the crime. He was using that crime as reasoning to commit an even larger crime. The hatred has finally reached the limit and it was time that Delaney served justice to those who dare receive it. However, when a flood of water swept them all away readers are left with a sense of hope that the friendship between Candido and Delaney is restored as Candido reaches out and saves Delaney’s life. Delaney had the choice of taking Candido’s hand and surviving, and neglecting to take his hand and be swept away just like Candido’s daughter. Therefore readers are hopeful that Delaney and
Individuals who are labeled as a “illegal aliens” are often faced with moments of despair where they struggle to find employment, medical insurance, and a home for their family and themselves. At times the barriers become too much to handle that immigrants begin to feel hopeless and alienated from everyone else. According to the Department of Homeland Security there was an estimated 11.4 million unauthorized immigrants living in the United States in 2012. This exemplifies the quantity of individuals who struggle with despair because of their cultural clashes with the American culture. Innocent children, men and women are constantly battling for survival in a hostile environment comprised of individuals who ridicule and isolate them based upon their current status. According to a recent study conducted by the Anxiety and Depression Association of America, there are 6.8 million Americans who struggle with Generalized Anxiety Disorder, 15 million Americans struggle with Social Anxiety Disorder, 7.7 Million struggle with Post Traumatic Stress Order, and an additional 15 million Americans struggle with Major Depressive Disorder. While documented Americans face these struggles, undocumented Immigrants face these same hardships on a much larger scale based predominantly on their label of an “illegal alien.” The stress caused by their current situation not only exemplifies the amount of …show more content…
Boyle also tend to struggle with despair but ultimately in the end they find the missing key to unlock the chains of despair and be hopeful. Candido was overcome with despair because the protagonists Delaney and Kyra are xenophobic opulent white folks who have a sense of hatred and disgust for the “illegal aliens” Candido and America. Throughout the novel, Kyra and Delaney were irritable with the “illegal aliens.” Kyra protested to get them deported and Delaney was vicious and violent. Between the two of them, they both created such a hatred for Candido and America, that Delaney finally draws the line and wants to do something about it. At the end of the novel, Delaney attempts to murder Candido and America for the vandalism on the wall surrounding the neighborhood, although he knows that they were not the ones who did the crime. He was using that crime as reasoning to commit an even larger crime. The hatred has finally reached the limit and it was time that Delaney served justice to those who dare receive it. However, when a flood of water swept them all away readers are left with a sense of hope that the friendship between Candido and Delaney is restored as Candido reaches out and saves Delaney’s life. Delaney had the choice of taking Candido’s hand and surviving, and neglecting to take his hand and be swept away just like Candido’s daughter. Therefore readers are hopeful that Delaney and