Summary Of Mexican Is Not A Noun By Alarcon

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I think that Alarcon chose to structure his poem in a distinct way with line breaks placing the word "Mexican" line by itself. Alarcon's word choice and word order to draw attention to illustrate that this minority doesn't have any control over what happens in their lives. In the beginning of the poem Alarcon says that "Mexican is not a noun or adjective but it is a lifelong low-paying job" (Alarcon,1985). Alarcon uses these phrases to show that Mexican's low paying jobs are for their entire lives due to the fact they have hard time getting My reaction to Alarcón’s choice in his poem structure for “Mexican is Not a Noun (2002,pp.542-543)” is that it has a distinct stanza form, with line breaks placing “Mexican” as a whole line in itself. There

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