The Circut By Francisco Jimenez Summary

Have you ever thought of working in the hot sun for twelve hours ?Francisco Jimenez portrays the lives of migrant farmworkers as struggling with poverty and dealing with child labor by giving many examples.In “The Circut” by Francisco Jimenez the short story is about a Mexican boy named Panchito and his family. They crossed the border from Mexico to California for a better life as migrant farmworkers. They pack up and move each season to find work only to endure hardships and the struggle of having to start over every few months.

Panchito's ,the narrator of the circuit is confronted with many challenges including poverty. For example,“.... he bought it in a used-car lot in Santa Rosa in the winter of 1949.”This shows that Panchito's life has him and his family struggling with poverty because the family haven’t gotten a new car since the winter of 1994. another example is, “...I carried the smaller ones purple and through the mattress on top of the car…”This also demonstrates that panchito's life has property because his family cannot afford the common things that most people take for granted. A whole family struggling with poverty are often forced to put

their children into child labor.
In addition to poverty, Jimenez describes the problem of child labor.For example, in “The Circuit” it states, “... Papa, Roberto, and I headed for the vineyard to pick.”This clearly shows that Panchito must deal with child labor because he is doing a heavy job during school hours. Automatically, there's a scene in the text where, “Around nine o'clock the temperature has risen to almost a hundred degrees. I was completely soaked in sweat and my mouth felt as if I was chewing on a handkerchief.”This scene also supports Panchito dealing with child labor because when he was working in dangerous working conditions during school hours.Panchito's experiences working twelve hours a day, day after day, week after week, and working in unsafe working conditions.
Francesco Jimenez illustrates migrant farm workers lives in the short story “The Circuit” by giving examples of poverty and child-labor.Poverty impacts Panchito's family of seven plus to only have one of them of almost everything Child-labor had a huge impact on Panchito's life because he becomes farther behind on his education and working in bad conditions.

In today's world there is kids in child labor and many people struggling with poverty. It is important that Francisco Jimenez tells a story of migrant farm workers because many people don't understand the struggles the workers go throw.This is relevant to our lives because people who aren't struggling with poverty or are in child labor take most things for granted and those who struggle would be more than grateful for the most slightest

things.