By Sidney W. Mintz
Employee within the Cane is either a profound social record and a relocating non secular testimony. Don Taso portrays his harsh youth, his courtship and early marriage, his grim fight to supply for his family members. He tells of his radical political opinions and union task through the melancholy and describes his hardships while he was once blacklisted as a result of his outspoken convictions. Embittered via his carrying on with poverty and by means of a major ailment, he undergoes a dramatic healing and turns into switched over to a Protestant revivalist sect. within the concluding chapters the writer translates Don Taso's event within the gentle of the altering styles of lifestyles in rural Puerto Rico.
This is the soaking up tale of Don Taso, a Puerto Rican sugar cane employee, and of his family members and the village within which he lives. instructed principally in his personal phrases, it's a vibrant account of the drastic alterations happening in Puerto Rico, as he sees them.Worker within the Cane is either a profound social record and a relocating religious testimony. Don Taso portrays his harsh formative years, his courtship and early marriage, his grim fight to supply for his relatives. He tells of his radical political opinions and union job through the melancholy and describes his hardships while he was once blacklisted due to his outspoken convictions. Embittered via his carrying on with poverty and by means of a significant disease, he undergoes a dramatic healing and turns into switched over to a Protestant revivalist sect. within the concluding chapters the writer translates Don Taso's adventure within the mild of the speedily altering styles of lifestyles in rural Puerto Rico.
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It was so serious that one would have to be dying to be willing to miss one of those shows. And so we went on for a long time. But afterward-I myself cannot explain how it came about-we began to give up that habit, little by little, little by little, until at last we went no 64 Worker in the Cane more. But at the time rm telling you about, it was remarkable the number of people who used to go to the movies on foot. And when we came out of the show everyone would have saved his nickel, and we would go to the bakery that used to be on the Calle de Guayama, and there each one of us would buy a pound of bread, and then we'd spend the rest of the trip [walking home] each of us eating his pound of bread.
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They would eat, and then she would send them back home. It is a kind of situation that leaves one feeling a little uncomfortable, you see? When you have a sister, and the husband of your sister carries off another woman, one feels a little uncomfortable about that, you see? That someone would do this sort of thing to one's sister. " That is a difficult matter regarding married couples. Because I know certain women here, their husband gives them a beating in the morning, and another at noon, and a third in the evening, and in spite of it they die living with him.