Innocent Bystander

Innocent Bystander In the newfangled The Tortilla Curtain, by T. C Boyle, it tells a story ab by twain completely different families one family who is quite wealthy and the other who had illegally crossed the border and is barely making terminations meet. In the story, a progeny lady by the name of the States is taken to California by her husband, solitary(prenominal) to be dupeized. Although she may not be the only victim in the book, she has been through a great ordeal of pain and suffering. the States is a victim of immigration, racism, the the Statesn dream, and bad luck.the States has left Mexico, with her husband Candido, to set-back a better life for not only themselves, but in that respect unborn child as well. Immigration and racism has been a volumed issue for them throughout the story, even more so with the States. Within the prime(prenominal) few days upon arrival they both find themselves cornered by a couple of boys. These boys find what constantly belongings both the States and Candido had and when they realize there is a female present they say rear beaners, rip it up, man. Destroy it (Boyle 62).Migrating to California illegally was difficult because in a situation like this, there could have been nothing done to give the sack them. All America wanted was to find work to help fill-in her family. The struggle bore on from dawn till noon and she didnt start up work (Boyle 57). America has risked it all mad no matter how saturated she tries she cannot seem to find work. America had left eitherthing rear in explore of this American dream she had played over and over in her head. She had been told, by her husband Candido, she was going to bang a wonderful life and he had promised her nothing but the best.America didnt need the finer things in life, all she in demand(p) was a house, a yard, maybe a TV and a gondola too (Boyle 29). She didnt need too much to satisfy her, but be that America and Candido started from the bottom, it was more than what he had to offer. As they walk further into the play which they call their home America cant help but gaze out on the grounded constellation on the valley floor, grid upon grid of lights and every one house, an apartment everyone the promise if a life that would never once again be this hard (Boyle 206).America is again dreaming about the life she hopes to live in California and can only hope for the best outlet unto which she plans to bring a baby into place she k straightaways so little about. She hopes that this is the America had gone through so much from the beginning of the novel. Candido had taken America from her father so they could have a better life -and now he couldnt out food in her mouth (Boyle 26). She had left the family she had ever known to risk it all to start a new life, and only to go day by day wondering how long she result have to go until her next meal.She had been victimized of racism and immigration from the offset few days upon arriv al and then she had to suffer statvation? It came down to where America told Candido she could not live like that. America had finally found a job, working for Jose Navidad, cleaning statues that he had imported. Just when things were starting to turn around, she is violated and raped by the man who had hired her. She tries to put the past behind her and think positive for her unborn child. After the baby is born America realizes she must have caught something from being raped because her baby cannot see.Candido was left with a violated wife and a blind baby (Boyle 353), and at the end Americas first born child is taken away by the contemporary of the water. From the beginning things are not looking too good for America. She had been appall emotionally and physically with hardly any sign of their life getting better. She had given in to so many promises, none of which were ever kept. The partake that immigration, racism, the American dream, and back luck, had left America with nothing. She was just an innocent bystander onerous to better her life.