Panchito In The Circuit

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To begin with Panchito has many struggles in life and with being a migrant worker, it makes life a bigger struggle than what it already is. Adding on In “The Circuit” by Francisco Jimenez, Panchito has a job as a field worker, and as it may sound the job sounds like one for a older individual especially one for a sixth grader, for example, “ That night I could not sleep. I lay in bed thinking about how much I hate this move. “ (Jimenez 74). This shows that Panchito knows that this move will affect many of the task he will do such as work. Another example of Panchito not enjoying his job because of a dramatic event between it is, “ Around nine o'clock the temperature had risen to almost one hundred degrees. I was completely soaked in sweat

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