Tuesday, 20 March 2012
Real life farm patrol
http://www.paysonroundup.com/news/2012/feb/28/coyote-smuggling-15-illegals-also-here-illegally/
In Celia's story, she had a coyote to help her across the border, and he/she was supposed to get her safely to the other side without being caught, but this coyote does not help her and just leaves her to be captured by El Patrón. In this news article that I found, there is a coyote helping more than a dozen people across the border, with at least one of them paying him $2000 for it, but this coyote actually does try to help the people he was meant to smuggle across the border, although he was caught and handed over to the U.S. customs officials. This coyote also might have made it if he had been obeying the traffic laws, but he was caught while a police officer was trying to pull him/her over because of this. In the case of Celia, however, there was almost no chance of her getting over in the first place since the entire country of Opium was there to keep the Americans in America while keeping the people from Aztlán in their own country. Most coyotes in real life will actually help many of their "clients" (if possible) to gain a reputation, but the one in the book obviously knew that there was no way that either of them would survive if the coyote came along, and would probably have been surprised to hear that she had kept her mind. The coyote in this article was much more likely to be successful than the one in the book, which was why he/she dared to take these people across the border, and he/she knew that there would be a lot of money in it for him/her. There is not much said about coyotes in the book, other than the fact that a lot would just leave people to get caught by the farm patrol, but there is a lot of information about the ones in the real world, like the way that they smuggle people in, which is often car or boat (car in this article). Overall, I think the main differences between the coyotes is the chance that they have of making it to the other side, which is slim in both cases, but the stakes for being caught are much bigger in the book than in real life.
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I like how you talked about the coyote in the book and then the ones in real life. I like how you compared the two and looked at how they act differently. I also think that it sounded like you were sort of rambling on and it didn't really flow well. But if you were to have organized it in a clearer order it would have been better. But it was still good!!!
ReplyDeleteYou had some great informations with the 'real life coyotes', but not that much information on Celia's story. Why did she take the risk of trusting the coyote? Explore the two different perspectives more. Also, it's very important to pull out evidence from the book such a quotes and relate it to the article you have read. I also agree with Gabriella, this blog post is a bit 'fluffy', you start off with a good idea but you continue to ramble and that looses peoples interest, look out for that! Other than that good job! (:
ReplyDeleteI like how you explained in a detailed summery of what happened in the article and the book, although you could speak more about how you feel about the subject, and the human implication. Also i think you rambled a bit to much, but over all i think it was good, especially how you compared modern day coyote's to the coyote in the book.
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