Essays on Under The Feet of Jesus

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…

“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…

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…

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…

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…