Sanches by Richard Dokey
In the short story "Sanches", Richard Dokey goes into great detail on the life of
Juan Sanches, a migrant farm worker. Juan Sanches has a really hard and challenging life.
He goes from witnessing one of his children be stillborn, to having his unborn son torn
from his wife's womb. As if that were not enough Juan's wife dies during the labor of his
only son, Jesus. After all of Juan's pain and suffering all that he lives for is for his son to
grow up and be a good hard working man like him, but his son becomes Americanized and
Juan Sanches becomes very depressed over his son's situation, but Juan is also depressed
because of his own situation and the life that he has led.
It is evident that Juan is depressed over his son's situation. This is evident in
many ways. Juan is depressed because his son has become exactly what he did not want.
When Sanches drives Jesus to the Flotill Cannery Jesus anxiously begins to tell his father
of how great the Cannery is. He tells him of the great aluminum buildings, the marvelous
machines, and the belts of cans that never stopped running (151). Jesus seems very
interested in the money, a feeling that Juan knows very well. When Jesus and Juan get to
the place were Jesus is going to stay he finds out that it is a cheap hotel. Jesus could tell
that his father was not pleased. In an attempt to make his father happy he said, "I will not
stay much in the room, it is only for sleep. I will be working overtime too" (151). All
Jesus had to do was look at his fathers face to know that he was displeased.
When Jesus gives his father a tour of the Cannery Juan acts very uninterested and,
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in a way, hurt. When Jesus went to ta...
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... that the life he led also had a part in his depression. Juan had a
very sad and depressing life. He was only happy when he was with La Belleza and that is
why at the end when he dies he is really just going home.
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Self Evaluation
I found that writing this paper was really hard for me. I am not good at analyzing
stories and trying to find hidden meaning in stories.
My strengths in this paper is that I think that I gave enough evidence to support
my thesis. I gave concrete evidence.
The weaknesses in my paper are that, even though I tried to stay away from it, it
seemed impossible for me to prove my point without summarizing. Also I think the time
limit that was given was not enough. When I write a paper I need at least a week and a
half in advanced so I can do the writing process correctly. I felt to pressured to finish the
paper.
sleep. Voices roared through his head; one voice persistently asked him, “Where is Jesus? Where?” And once he woke up shouting, “The bird is Jesus! The Bird is Jesus!” (381)
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