Identity Crisis In Gary Soto's 'Mexicans Begin Jogging'

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The poem “Mexicans begin Jogging” is written by Gary Soto 1981. This poem is all about the incident that happen when the speaker was working as employ in industries along with illegal Mexicans. In this poem, speaker has share his personal experience and emotion, while he was running along illegal Mexicans, although he was legal citizen the America.
Gary Soto's "Mexicans Begin Jogging" mirrors the state of identity crisis that Mexican Americans experience. The narrative in the first person lends subjectivity to the issue. Soto was working at the factory's press at the time the border patrol turned up. He was engaged in menial work at the industrial plant, though Mexicans immigrated to America for brighter prospects. Everyone presents had to