Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Essay Plum Plum Pickers

In the story Plum Plum Pickers,the author Raymond Bajlio suggests that money is important for people to survive  and he also suggests the struggle of some people to make money .He suggests that it's not a good thing  when people struggle to survive and the aren't happy,they feel lonely.  
The author establish his point by using some words,short sentence, metaphors.For example in this quote "no matter which way he turned,he was trapped in an endless maze of apricot trees,as though forever,neat rows of them ,neatly planted,row after row ,just like the blackest bars on the jail of hell."In this quote,the author is trying to make us understand how the protagonist feel trapped ,he uses a lot of comma to make it a little bit slower and repetitive.At the end of the paragraph he's describing himself as an animal that is trying to survive.And there's an allusion in this paragraph,water is an allusion that refers to Baptism.Furthermore,the author describes the protagonist who is Roberto Morales."his feet straddled.Mexican style.A real robber.A Mexican general.A gentlemanly,friendly,polite,grinning,vicious,thieving brute.The author describes him as a person who pretends to be nice but he's not.The author describes him from nice to mean so he can make us understand that he's not really a nice person,he just pretend to be.The author describes the condition of  living of Manuel the protagonist.He feels like an animal,lonely.He's not happy at all.And he's working hard."I must take two cents from every buckets.I am sorry.There was a miscalculation.Everybody understands.Everybody?He slides his eyes around ,smiling ,palms up." In this quote the author is trying to explain the power that you have when you are an authority.And he's also suggests that show how the other people when the have power,they think can do whatever they want,even though this decision can affect others badly.Almost at the end of the story,Manuel disagree to the new decision."you promised to take nothing!"Manuel heard himself saying.This quote  describes how the slaves didn't have  no right to say  anything or protest about some rules.But,Manuel who was a slave like the others feel like something he's not right ,he feel like it's unfair because they work hard to make money.Among all of those slaves he was the only that had the courage to say it even even though he was scared.
The idea in this passage is important because it help us think about the struggling of other people out there to make money and how some other people try to abuse them in a certain way. Either those people rely on them or they have the power to do that.And it is important  because it shows that happiness is important in life.

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