Word: nchez
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Children of Sánchez, by Oscar Lewis. A powerful and moving documentary, mostly tape-recorded, in which each of five members of a Mexico City slum family tells of his fight for self-respect and love...
...Children of Sánchez, by Oscar Lewis. A tape-recorded documentary in which each of five members of a slum-dwelling Mexico City family tells of his own struggle for respect, love and individuality. Far from the dusty aridities of social science, the book offers a powerful, touching and intimate view of the long, and far from simple, annals of the poor...
...Children of Sánchez, by Oscar Lewis. A tape-recorded documentary in which each of five members of a slumdwelling Mexico City family tells of his own struggle for respect, love and individuality. Far from the dusty aridities of social science, the book offers a powerful, touching and intimate view of the long, and far from simple, annals of the poor...
Walking in Darkness. Jesús Sánchez, born in 1910 in the state of Veracruz, grew up knowing that his place in life was that of a poor workman. "There is nothing better in this world than upright work," he says-to the constant irritation of his children. Lenore ("the first woman I ever had") bore him two boys, Manuel and Roberto, and two girls, Consuelo and Marta. Of the four, only Marta holds his affection. He considers the rest ungrateful, worthless drifters. "They don't like to have anyone order them around." he says. "First they...
Unpredictable in all things, the Sánchez family not only exemplifies how environment affects people, but, more importantly, how different people differ in the same environment. Thus Author Lewis notes the supreme irony in the Sánchez story: by working doggedly through the years, "the father who never aspired to be more than a simple worker managed to raise himself out of the lower depths of poverty, whereas the children have remained at that level." The reason is given by Consuelo, the poet...