Essays on Under The Feet of Jesus

“Under the Feet of Jesus” shows the history of a Latino family’s struggle to flee poverty and to seek a secure life. Above all, the novel focuses on the challenges of family relationships among the awful operating conditions that exist for migrant employees. The story portrays many ideas throughout the book such as motherhood, the value of labor, marginalization, and race. These topics can be processed as themes of the novel overall, but they all play a contribution in the character of ...

In Under the Feet of Jesus by Helena Maria Viramontes, the fruit that gives the field workers life, refreshment, and hope is the peach. Peaches, although abundant, are the delicacy of the fields desired by many and savored by few. Peaches are the price you have to pay to make a better living for yourself and to appreciate the little things in life. Viramontes uses the peach to portray the immigrant worker’s desire to escape field work and become citizens of the U.S. where they will be able to ...

In the works we have read this semester, we have learned that due to their identity crises, these characters suffer immensely in their lives. They have suffered in their relationships, falling in love in peculiar ways. In The God of Small Things, Ammu and her children show the love they have for each other is damaging as well as uncontrollable. Roy is accentuating the interdependence of private desire to bigger premises of history and social occurrences by writing about several dramatic love ...

The Bildungsroman literary genre convention dwells on the growth of the protagonist from youth to adulthood morally and psychologically. Works that have employed the literary genre can also be referred to as coming of age genres. The novel by Viramontes entitled Under the Feet of Jesus gives an account of the plight of a family that lives as migrants. It has aspects that indicate similarities with the theories of the Bildungsroman. The essay evaluates how and to what extent the events of the ...

Pandoa’s Box was said to contain all the evils in the world, upon opening spreading sins around the Earth. In the excerpt from Viramontes’s Under the Feet of Jesus, the toolbox is similar to Pandora ’s Box as it contains Estrella’s future knowledge. Although the toolbox is a reoccurring theme throughout the passage, it is not the only thing that develops Estrella’s character. While developing the complexity of the piece that Estrella once hated the thing that brought her knowledge, Viramontes ...