What Is The Connection Between 'Legal Alien And' Jogging Mexican

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The following stage is called “The Road of Trials” where the other people in town realize Richard Cory is missing something, love. Then there's the way they all receive treatment in “Legal Alien”. Then also that in “Jogging Mexican” the worker paper's aren't even legal, that’s why the worker climbed into the van. All of these literary pieces connect because all the characters realize that all of the problems that are going on; how Richard is lonely, the way the legal aliens are treated, and when the worker is able to escape.

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