And the Earth Did Not Devour Him
In And the Earth Did Not Devour Him, the characters are always surrounded by violence. An external violence imposed by a system of laws that do not protect the farm workes. Leaving them lonely as if they dont belong here nor there Nowhere”, Ni de aqu ni de alla. They are always migrating looking for that promised land (The American Dream). They practice a religion that does not question the injustice in “The Kingdom of This World”: The more you suffer in this world, the better the reward will be in the afterlife. By what means can the BRACEROS tolerate such an unsafe and inhumane life? However, the characters in this shorts story are with the fear os : “If you go against system of rules set by the powerful institutions, God is going to punish you or worst the erath is going to devour you.
Relate the moral of the story in And The Earth Did Not Devour Him with the manifestation of the Chicano movement of Dolores Huerta, Csar Chvez and Luis Valdez?