Immigrant As a Child Lorenzo Term Paper

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With his help the family survived the ordeal of living in a big city.

The racism so common against people of Southern European descent hurt Lorenzo as a child, there was one instance where he was walking down a street to return a pan his mother had borrowed from a friend. A few 'tall white kids', as he called them, kicked the pan out of his hands and beat him down. They called him cruel names, and then left him to cry home.

Lorenzo had to endure this constant torment as he grew up, but it was nothing compared to what his parents suffered.
In Spain Sofia Baltasar had been a loving and caring mother of two, educating and raising them from birth. In Boston she had to work five hours a day sewing up uniforms for the men in action. Instead of taking care of Bonita and Lorenzo, she was busy working to keep the family afloat. But despite every force trying to tear them apart, somehow they would gather every evening and eat their 'late lunches' as a loving….....

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