The Plum Plum Pickers

Kelvin Tsang   

Mr.Gallagher

English 12

19 October 2010

Kelvin Tsang   

Mr.Gallagher

English 12

19 October 2010

The Plum Plum Picker

            The story The Plum Plum Pickers Raymond Barrio suggests that in our world, everyone is not equal, it have high class and low class people. High and low class people don’t like each other. And what make high and low class is the money. Raymond Barrio use ironies, metaphors to show money can make different between high and low class.

            In the story the plum plum pickers, the main two person Manuel and Roberto Morales. They both are not from U.S. they are Mexican. In the story the world they describe Mexican is “real robber, worst kind, old clothing, everyone knew what kind of clever criminal they was”. In the quote the author use very story word to describe the Mexican, like a real robber. It scared people, because what if your friend is Mexican. It’s mean they going to steal your stuff? Also to show the Mexican is lower class. They have old clothing and they are criminal.

            In the story, the high class people are the white people and low is Mexican. Both class they don’t like each other. They use racist word to call other kind. Like the work “gueros. They word gueros is insulting name for white people. They higher class does not care the Mexican. “their only soul grime indeed was that they just didn’t give shit how that migratory scum lived, It was not concern of their, their religion said it was no concern of their” in this quote it show Manuel is very angry. He is very angry that he needs to swear. And need to talk about other people religion. There religion is not to care to lower class. And he said “no concern of theirs”. For five times, He’s really meaning it. That how angry he was.

            The high class gets to work in a good area. And low class doesn’t. The story start with Manuel feeling. “he was trapped in a endless maze of apricot true.” Manuel feeling is like he got trapped, he can’t go any where his body is very exhausted. His shirt was powder dry. And every day he need to deal with the “hot dry air”. Some time he even feel he is too exhausted to eat. The high class is the opposite, they get to work in a offices. “Smiling in their cool filtered office, puffing their. Elegant thin cigars.” The while people is chilling in the offices with A/C on. And the worker is dying like hell. This show is a ironies.

            The story plum plum pickers show that what between high and low class is the money and there racist. If you are white you get to treat better. If you are poor like the Mexican. You will work in a very bad surface. And people don’t treat you good since they don’t look white

            The high class gets to work in a good area. And low class doesn’t. The story start with Manuel feeling. “he was trapped in a endless maze of apricot true.” Manuel feeling is like he got trapped, he can’t go any where his body is very exhausted. His shirt was powder dry. And every day he need to deal with the “hot dry air”. Some time he even feel he is too exhausted to eat. The high class is the opposite, they get to work in a offices. “Smiling in their cool filtered office, puffing their. Elegant thin cigars.” The while people is chilling in the offices with A/C on. And the worker is dying like hell. This show is a ironies.

            The story plum plum pickers show that what between high and low class is the money and there racist. If you are white you get to treat better. If you are poor like the Mexican. You will work in a very bad surface. And people don’t treat you good since they don’t look white