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Problems In Geraldo's Culture

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What are some problems that could come across to people of Geraldo’s culture if they are alone in America? Many problems that people like Geraldo could face if they happened to be alone is having no emergency contact number. Another thing is that you have a place to call your house, but you don't have a place to call your home, because your home is where you make your life happen. Your family helps you make your life happen, but if you are alone, you have no family to help you. “His name was Geraldo. And his home is in another country. The ones he left behind are far away” (Cisneros 66). If his family was closer, they might have been able to save him, but he was far away in a foreign country, and on his own. Also, if his family was here they

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