by Francisco Jimenez
The Circuit by Francisco Jimenez proves that you accomplish so many things even if you started from nothing. Panchito was born in Mexico and comes from a family pour migrant farm workers who traveled the seasonal circuit. Panchito and his family remind me ...
From the book called The circuit I learned a lot from another person's perspective, from immigration to working on the farm. Several times in the book we see the main character, Panchito, who has a father who worked hard long hours in the field. His back started to hurt and it only got worse, from b...
Being an immigrant, this struck a particularly deep chord with me. In the middle of the book, there was even a chapter which made me cry. I feel terrible for this child, for the conditions that he is forced to be in, and for all others like him. I feel embarrassed about the very system that kept my ...