Moving To America Chapter Summaries

The book of the unknown Americans turns out to be a love story with a bit of a twist. It involves at lot of different families and people that migrated to the United States of America. One Latino family, the Rivera’s, from Mexico move to the United States of America to give their daughter a better life. Their life in Mexico was nice and simple, they had a great piece of property and Arturo ran his own construction company. They needed to move to America because their daughter who is only 15 years old had an accident at her dad’s job. Now Maribel is not the same, she fell from a ladder Alma was holding. The fall caused tremendous swelling and shaking of her brain, and leading to neuron detachment, Alma feels at fault for the accident Maribel had.

Once arriving at Delaware, the Rivera’s family moved into a one bedroom apartment which looked like it had not been touched for a while. The floor was worn out, and the walls were a mustard yellow which made the place even more bland and old. The bathroom was very little with a baby blue sink, a toilet with rust, and a stand up shower with no door. The kitchen was on the bigger side but it still

Alma was used to people starting at Maribel’s beauty before the accident but then everyone did not stare because they knew something was wrong with her. Things after their arrival was not going so well. Arturo started his new job at the mushroom farm it was nothing like his old construction job. He had to stand up in the dark for 10 hours picking mushrooms with no break to drink water nor eat. Things with Maribel’s school also got complicated. She was supposed to be going to a school named Evers which is a school for the children with special need, but ended up going to A. I. DuPont. She could be eligible for Evers after she is put in an Ell class and evaluated for the special needs