A Fabricated Mexican Character Analysis

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Throughout the book A Fabricated Mexican we learn about the main character's life. When he could not simply fix a problem, he decided to let it go and accept his life the way it was. Ricky struggles with inner ghosts throughout his life that include his father's suicide, being unable to impress his mother, and accepting his ethnicity. While some of these problems were very difficult to deal with, Ricky managed to find a way to face them. Although some of his issues were very major and took a lot of time to overcome, he learned how to live with it,with the help of family, friends, and a therapist. First, Ricky’s father committed suicide when Ricky was six years old. When he was young and learning how to play baseball, he confronted his mother …show more content…

This started when he was young and did not make the baseball team when his mother told him that “All my boys play little league” (25). Throughout high school he started to rebel, yet decided to start college to make his mom happy. When he went back to college years later and graduated and got a job, he was so thrilled to tell his mother so that she could finally be proud of him. Although when he told her she seemed more impressed with his high school nephews and their sport accomplishments. Ricky stated “I realized that in the eyes of my mother, being an English teacher couldn’t hold up to being a champion high school wrestler” (137). While he could not solve this conflict with his mother, he found a way to let it go because he realized that she did not understand, and might never understand how big of an achievement that was for …show more content…

While he loved his culture and his language, he did not like their reputation and stereotypes that kept them separated from the rest of society. He felt as if the law treated them unfairly, especially after the stealing incident at the gas station where he was arrested after head-butting the clerk. While reading through his father's file that contained all the information about his suicide, he came across the section about his father's job that upset him. He saw that the Nativity section said Mexico, and underneath, the occupation was filled with the word Laborer. Ricky drunkenly asked “Do those two fucking words always go hand in hand?”” (144-145). Although he can never change where ha came from, he changed his point of views, and college changed him as a person. Ricky worked hard enough and got past the discrimination and made a life for himself, and this is how he overcame his issues with his

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