Parrot in the Oven: Mi Vida
Using "Parrot in the Oven" write a SCR answering the following question, How does the theme of "otherness" emerge within the aftermath of the immigration officers removal of the illegal immigrants from the field?
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Manny and Nardo are working in the chili pepper field when officials from immigration arrive to take illegal workers into custody. These people have apparently managed to enter the United States illegally and are working menial jobs because they see this as a better life than the lives they were living in Mexico. One man admits that he ran from the immigration officials, even though he is actually a legal American resident. The officials released him immediately upon seeing that he was well-fed. This indicates that the American resident does have a better life than those illegal immigrants., which is an example otherness, social identities that are constructed.... not natural.
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