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Daniella Trevino

Professor Williams

Writing 2

10, November 2019

PB3

The primary text that I will be translating is a poem by Blas Manuel De Luna called “Bent to the earth”.  It is about a Mexican five-year-old who is in a van along with his parents and other Mexicans to go work in the fields when they are stopped by authorities. These authorities then basically attack them trying to arrest any "illegals" they can find. After that whole ordeal, they then continue to the fields and go to work. The genre is terms of its format and the conventions it follows is of a poem. But its genre of what it is about is immigration, ICE Agents, and working in the fields. The audience for this poem is the general public because anyone can read this even though it is meant for an older audience than a younger one.

Because of the poem’s focus, it seems that the discourse community that the poem is meant to relate to are Mexican immigrants and those working in the fields. The purpose of this poem is to raise awareness about one of the harsh realities of what being an immigrant can be like. I think the author wanted whoever reads this to a least get a sense of the fear that was felt during that moment and although they just went through that they still had to go to work and continue there day as normal because they did not have any other choice. The poem's purpose besides raising awareness on the subject could be to comfort anyone who has gone through anything like this. Comfort them in the sense knowing that they are not alone.

            I am conflicted between two genres I would like to translate it into. I know I want to translate it into some sort of art form but I’m still deciding whether to turn it into a comic strip or a painting. I feel that a comic strip would be appropriate because it would highlight specific scenes in the poem still giving the same message just in pictures. A painting though is also appropriate because I will be able to do the same thing I am doing in the comic strip but it allows me to be a bit more creative since the conventions of a painting are not as limiting. For both of these genres, the audience is the general public but like poem, the community that can relate to it are immigrants and those working in the fields.

Some of the conventions of a comic strip are it is relatively short, broken up into sections, made up of pictures, and doesn't have many words in each section. The conventions of a painting are very broad because it can really be anything if some sort of art is on a canvas and was painted on. I am deciding between these two genres because I feel that both of these would still show and keep the same message as the poem just in a different way that could possibly reach a broader audience because it is images. What I hope to reveal about genre and about my primary text, through my choice of translation is that even though the poem and art form is different in their conventions they can still deliver the same message and are able to raise awareness on the topic.

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