Write An Essay On Ricky Annotated Mexico

In the novel A Fabricated Mexican, Ricky Coronado goes through various problems as he progresses through life. Like every person in the world Ricky deals with these problems as would any other person; however, Ricky seems to have something haunting him and it influences him and his decisions. These ghosts that haunt Ricky could be seen as the death of his father and the control his mother has over him. Ricky deals with these ghosts as he makes his life decisions while facing many internal struggles.

All through Ricky’s life, certain events always seem to lead to the struggles he has with his mother. The control she has over him causes him to almost loathe who he is. At a young age, Ricky’s mother forces him to try out for Little League, even though he would much rather be at home reading or playing with his dog. After tryouts Ricky reads

the results in the paper to his mother. After his mother grabs the paper from his hands she says, “Como que, you didn’t make it? All my boys play little league” (25).Ricky goes on to say that he isn’t like her other boys and he didn’t grow up with them, or anybody. I believe that Ricky realizes that his other expects him to be like his older siblings. This is where the ghost is created. For the rest of the novel Ricky constantly second guesses what he truly wants. When Ricky was ten his mother tell him that she has line up two jobs for him. After putting up a fight Ricky does these jobs; however, with only two weeks left in the second job Ricky refuses to get out of the car to begin that day’s work. Ricky gets upset and then begins to state how his other doesn’t care, and that he get in trouble just for reading. He is so afraid of what his mother would do that he eventually joins his sister at work after lunch. As graduation was looming over his head, Ricky’s mother and sister force him to see a therapist. They were concerned that he wasn’t thinking clearly. Prior to this forced therapy session, Ricky moved out of his mother’s house and moved in with his sister Monica and her husband. Ricky’s mother was so insistent that he graduate high school and go to college that she had planned to move in with Ricky and his sister. Ricky sees the therapist and even though the therapist tells Ricky that his choices in his plans are okay, he tells his mother what she wants to hear. Ricky starts to pull away from his mother and stops speaking to her. Once Ricky realizes that his mother isn’t proud of who he is he gives up and continues to live his life.
Another ghost that seems to haunt Ricky is the death of his father.

When Ricky was six years old his father committed suicide. Even though Ricky was just a boy Ricky continued to tell his friend Gerald that his father was going to come back. Ricky believed that God would bring his father back. When Ricky was forced to see a therapist he was asked about his depression. Ricky explains to the therapist that his father committed suicide because he found out he had cancer. When the therapist asked if Ricky gets depressed about his father Ricky says, “Sometimes I get really pissed off at him and think he was a big chicken. And other times I think you have to be brave to do something like that” (99). I think Ricky deals with the uncertainty of why his father killed himself and it has a big impact on his life. It wasn’t until Ricky decided that after all the years of self-abuse, through alcohol and drugs, he had to know what really happened to his dad. It wasn’t until he read the police report on this father’s death that he truly felt he had the whole story. This was the point where Ricky finally felt some peace about his father’s

death.
Ricky deals with the death of his father and his mother’s control by acting out. It wasn’t until he realized he would never live up to his mother’s expectations that he finally let go over the unworthiness he felt. Once Ricky investigated his father’s death he finally made peace with how it happened. Finally, Ricky let go of his ghosts that haunted him.