Question

Why does Acuna want to ""take busloads of people out to the fields""? How would their realization be like that of the poet Martin Espada in ""Who Burns for the Perfection of Paper?""

Answer 1

Acuna wants to take people to the fields so that these people can see that the food on their table is planted and harvested with much sacrifice and suffering.

In this way, these people would have the same realization that Martin Espada shows in his poem, which is the realization that every product we consume was created by a pair of tired and bruised hands.

We can arrive at this answer because:

• The poem "Who Burns for the Perfection of Paper" shows the poem remembering the time he worked in a printing plant, forming blocks of paper.
• The poet remembers how this was tiring work and that it hurt his hands a lot. This feeling was so bad, that whenever the poet holds a book, he remembers that a pair of hands had to suffer for that book to exist.
• Acuna has a similar mindset in "Working Toward the Dream," as he is a farmworker who suffers a lot to work planting and harvesting vegetables.
• The hands of all workers are injured, as well as their bodies and their lives as a result of this work, but consumers have no idea of ​​this suffering when they have food on their tables.

In this way, Acuna wants to take people to the fields so that they have the same perception as the poet. This perception will show that every product that these people consume was made by workers who suffer in their jobs.

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