Blog Response #3

After being sent to jail, Juan Salvador saw how desperate his mother and sisters were because there was no money coming into the family, so he agreed to the rich Mexican proposition in order to help out his family. The proposition consisted of Juan Salvador confessing to the crime of the man’s son, which was the murder of a Texas’ ranger, this meant that Juan would have to give up his six year sentence to be in for life or even be executed, in return the man would give Doña Margarita five hundred dollars in gold. (Pg.215) Another example from the book which is not in the chapters we had to read is when Juan had to sacrifice his burro so his family and the starving people around them could eat. I believe that people are more willing to sacrifice in times of hardship, my example proves that even though at first Juan thought of spitting to the man’s face after hearing what he had proposed he realized that his family was in need so he sacrificed his freedom in order for his family to be “ok”. Thanks to the current economic problems many of us have had to sacrifice many things we used to do on a regular basis. A couple of my friends stopped going out to clubs, restaurants and to the movies so they could save money, they are sacrificing their social lives. Material objects, life, freedom, fun are a couple of things that people would be willing to sacrifice in times of hardship.

To my "Familia": sorry you guys my internet was down since yesterday.