The Beatles' "The Long and Winding Road" - by Cesar Romero

    Candido was like other people who have the dream to have a better quality of life for them and also for their family. He in entire the novel was a very hard-working and also strong man, he never gave up. Even in the worst times, he continues to have a positive mind to get a job and get some food for his wife America. Since he decides to move to another country, he was very brave despite he doesn't know the language and even when people abused their goodwill and were racist with him. In the way he demonstrated his loyalty and bravery to his wife, many people may have experienced this type of event in their lives as well. Even, when I moved to El Centro, it was very different from what I was used to living. I had to leave my family and friends to start from scratch, without knowing the language, it was difficult to make friends. Some didn't even help when a person doesn't understand a language, that's why there is racism because they feel a person inferior to them and they only make fun.

    Music has been a big part of my life and will always be. I was always been a boy who listens to mainstream songs, but as I starting to grow up, I began to look to a song distinct from the one’s today. That was when “The Long and Winding Road” from The Beatles became my favorite English song. The first time I heard it, I was amazed by the melody and Paul McCartney’s voice. It one of the last Beatles songs, Paul wrote the song in his home in Scotland. He just sat down with his piano and came up with this masterpiece song. He wrote this based on the tension within the band, and some others say it loves. I think it about the impossible; the entryway you never fully reach. This is the road that you never get to the furthest limit of.

    This song reminded me of Candido trying to be successful in this American Dream, but no matter what he does, it always his bad fortune that leads him back to the starting point. He knew it was a curse that was given upon him, yet he is not willing to give up because he has a family to provide and be with.  The novel, The Tortilla Curtain, ends with an unfortunate finale with Candido losing his daughter, yet he becomes a better version of himself. Candido will never reach the door that opens the path for a prosperous life.

    I think that reading books like The Tortilla Curtain is  important because we can have a different opinion about issues or social problems as in this novel. I believe that people who read this novel can figure out how a person who is an illegal immigrant suffers a lot to get some money and eat with their family. Just to be from another country does not mean that are criminals, they only a better chance for their quality of life. People shouldn't be disrespectful with them, even racist because in the end, they could surprise you.

 

The Beatles: “The Long And Winding Road”	The Tortilla Curtain: The Long and Winding Road
The long and winding road That leads to your door Will never disappear I've seen that road before It always leads me here	“He hurried down the trail, and nothing bothered him now, not his hip or his cheekbone or the wind in his face, thinking of the beer and the turkey and América...guess what papacito's got for you!”(254). Yes, he told her, yes, that’s the way, and he was happy, as happy as he’d ever been, right up to the moment when the wind plucked the fire out of its bed of coals and with a roar as loud as all the furnaces of hell set it dancing in the treetops (256).
The wild and windy night That the rain washed away Has left a pool of tears Crying for the day Why leave me standing here?	“She didn’t answer, and he felt the cold seep into his veins, a coldness and a weariness like nothing he’d ever known. The dark water was all around him, water as far as he could see, and he wondered if he would ever get warm again. He was beyond cursing, beyond grieving, numbed right through to the core of him. (354).
Many times I've been alone And many times I've cried Anyway, you'll never know The many ways I've tried	They’d be better off without him. The authorities would be looking for him, the agent of all this destruction, but they wouldn’t be looking for América, the mother of a U.S. citizen, and Cándido had heard over and over how they had clinics and housing and food slips for poor Americans, and why couldn’t his daughter get that sort of help? Why not? (321).