Summary Of A Gringo In The Lettuce Field

“A Gringo in the lettuce fields” by Gabriel Thompson is about him working in the lettuce fields. He challenges himself to the work for two months. To the readers the purpose seem to be that he is trying to prove that its not easy. He starts as off by telling us that his in Arizona. He describes his surroundings by plainly stating how the sky is very blue and how close it is to Mexico.
Thompson goes into how the work is affecting is physical body. To exclaim is point he introduces Manuel. It was kind of a comparison to how the work tires your body. Manuel tells him if you can last a week you will be fine. Which ties back to the fact that his already exhausted on the third day.
Thompson then talks about his speculations about the works. He thought

It also takes a toll on your body. Most ‘Americans’ would not want to do it.

Gabriel Thompson’s essay is written in an observational point of view. Thompson tends to give his action and what he feels physically to his reader.That's because he wrote the essay as a participant instead of a speculator. Thompson choice of what role as a participant is important it makes it reliable to the readers; it emphasis on how the work is hard and not as simple as most Americans imagine it to be.
If Thompson was a spectator he would have just stated what the workers were doing and how hard it seems but it would not have felt as personal as when he was doing it. His role as a participant lets the readers explore on what point his trying to prove. The readers could feel the intensity of work. Thompson shows himself as a beginner in the field as a participant his intended audience were probably in the same spot as him.
To ridicule the fact that the job is as simple as most people say it is. He uses Senator John McCain stir when he told the union workers to go work in the lettuce field for Fifty Dollars an hour in 2006. By adding this example Thompson is basically stating that most people wont do the work even if they were given higher