Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. “For the first time I began to understand the frustration of a blue-collar American who really needs work,” he writes. I can compare this book to the best of George Orwell's journeys to the heart of poverty." The coyotes who smuggle them are deceptive, abusive and slippery as their job is quite dangerous. Given the difficulties the people described in this book had over a decade ago, one can only imagine that their lives have been made even more difficult by recent government policies and public opinion. Change ), You are commenting using your Facebook account. Coyotes by Ted Conover. Reaction Paper: Coyotes Ted Conover’s Coyotes is a description of illegal immigration from a point of view that most Americans have never before considered.
Mexican labor, according to just about everyone, benefits American business…” (p. 264). And since the economic benefits of such immigration are noted by Conover, I find also worth mentioning the money lost on such things as the medical care and prison housing of immigrants as well. They seem innocent of the world of the United State, but in thier own world, Ted conkver them as “important” having connections to wives, ccoyotes and parents. Coyotes, however, is one of those occasions when writing in the first person is important for Conover. If his report was not biased before, it now takes an obvious slant against the United States policies of legal immigration, since Conover himself willingly violates them. In the long mostly nights of letting babies come I heard many stories of young women traveling anyway they could. What he does do is insinuate himself into a group of migrant workers and document their coyltes. A devastating document, this one must be read."
The trip, described by Ted as having an average speed of twenty-five miles per hour, taxed Ted's patience, but his Mexican counterparts didn't understand his impatience. Later, he acknowledges after one of the immigrants causes a traffic accident that they “shouldn’t have been on the road at all” (p. 129). You also have the option to opt-out of these cookies. They are dogged, resourceful, desperate to work and get money for those back home. Now that I finished the book, iI feel like I know these men. These cookies will be stored in your browser only with your consent. The damage to family life is reiterated by the priest in the town of Ahuacatlan, who describes the additional toll, less immediately apparent, that immigration takes on the men themselves. And we see the labor in the fruit fields for meager pay. For there is no authority except from God, and the authorities that exist are appointed by God” (Romans 13:1, New King James Version). 'target="_blank">
