eng274-blog assignment 4-Writing on a Photo

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  Giovanni poses in front of the leather store that once served the community of Bushwick. A lit menorahh in the window sill illuminates the early morning and frames the teen. In the predawn hours he poses for a photographer before starting his busy day.
He wears a hand me down , woolen coat from his taller brother. A coat, given to his brother from his father a coat that has lasted a lifetim. it hangs off his thin body to his ankles. A single button keeps it closed.
His worn leather work boots protect bear witness to his labor. Hours, days weeks, on his feet, walking the avenues of Brooklyn. . Proudly he dons a Gatsby cap on his blonde locks, and smiles for the camera. He can not keep his attention on the photographer but looks to his right to a friend.
Newspapers protrude beneath his left arm, the inventory of his business venture. He warms his feet on the subway grates before he makes his way to his corner.

ENg 274 Blog assinment #3 -Reading Demetria Martinez's Inherit the Earth, The Things They Carried

Rough Draft
 

When I read “Inherit the Earth; The Things They Carried,” I thought of my friends that I grew up with in Colorado.  My friends and their family had immigrated from Mexico.What I witnessed growing up,  were parents looking for a better life for their children.  They worked hard to give their children what they did not have in Mexico. 
 
     I wish that I would have read this piece earlier because  when I was  living in Colorado, there were people I worked with who would say things like, "The mexicans come here and take our jobs."  If I would have read this piece  I could have quoted Ms.Martinez when she writes, “I think of the fourteen men who died recently in triple digit heat-abandoned by their smuggler, abandoned by a gluttonous nation that craves cheap labor but detest the laborer.”  i realize that some authors try to remain objective, but I admire Ms. Martinez for putting in to words what I feel and thnk about this issue. 

Another quote I liked was the first line in the piece.  It provides a visual image of the Arizona desert in a metaphor.  “The Arizona sun is melting like a pat of butter on the mountain that flanks Tucson’s west side.”this metaphor is effective in giving not only a clear  image of  a bright sun, but in presentin the heat of that sun. 
"the final quote in this piece that left an impression on me is, "It is not Disneyland she hopes for, but dignity."  In this quote, Ms. Martinez is humanizing the plight of the mexican community.  She illustrates that Mexican women want a better life.  They are not looking to get rich, just to live witout oppression, and poverty.