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So far in the book I am starting to see how different people think about work. I am seeing the meaning of work from different people from different perspectives and conditions. The book is interesting.

in the particular chapter, I was reading it was based on the work-life in the life of a strip miner. The worker talks about his condition and how he feels towards his job. As well as how he works with the machinery n his work.

this book is interesting as it describes the life of people who work in many different environments, and shows a different perspective of each person. I would like to continue reading this book as I find it interesting how people with different lives work in different situations and surroundings. as well as help those choosing a job a perspective of what they would be doing.

The narrator talks about his struggles of constant migration and school. He said he quit school around 8th grade because he felt degraded for speaking Spanish. He always had to travel from California to Arizona and back. He worked on a farm and tried to memorize a part for a play and didn't end up getting it. He was really mad about this which ultimately lead up to him dropping out of school in the 8th grade.

So far, this book is very appealing and relate-able. It talks about the working and class and the struggles of physical labor. This is very much like school as both are stressing and unnecessarily hard. For example, we go to school for about 7-8 hours a day. We also get 2-3 hours of homework each night. We are basically working overtime. So did the main character so far in this book.