Summary Of Spare Parts By Joshua Davis

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“We are American in every way but paperwork.” \ While reading Spare Parts by Joshua Davis, I came to understand many important topics in four boys lives, whether it was about their home lives or about beating MIT. The one that sticks with me the most was the struggle these boys had to go through because they were not American citizens. In part one of the text, we learn all the background of these four boys’ who came to the United States of America for a better life. We learn about their hardships while coming to America, which wasn’t an easy task for any of these boys. July 27, 1997 police officers in Phoenix started cracking down on any hispanic person they could find. The officers would go around and questioned any person with a hispanic

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