ipl-logo

Jimmy Santiago Baca Coming Into Language

163 Words1 Pages
My understanding of Coming into Language
“Coming into Language” is a book by Jimmy Santiago Baca, that talks about the struggles he had to face as a young illiterate Hispanic male. As a “Chicano”, he had to deal with prejudice from an early life and as a result, had frequent run-ins with the police. At the age of seventeen he was arrested as a murder suspect because he refused to explain how he got a gash on his arm. While he is in prison, awaiting trial, he listens to other prisoners reading out loud and that is when he starts appreciating written language. Two years later, he is again behind the bars facing drug charges and a million-dollar bail. Unable to pay the bail money, he is once again behind the bars. One night while moping the floor,
Open Document