Summary Of Spare Parts By Josh Davis

In the book Spare parts, Josh Davis explains certain points well. While doing so he sheds light into the past and childhoods of Lorenzo, Luis, Oscar, Cristian and their families. Josh Davis explains Oscars military experience well and how it shaped him into the person he was. Towards the end of middle school Oscar begins think that he is starting to get the hang of being a Mexican student in an American school thing down. Once high school started he kinda felt out-of-place again, he tried to fit in and do more normal high school things like football and soccer, in the hopes of making new friends, which ended up being a little harder than he thought. That was until he joined the ROTC, which was filled with a lot of kids just like Oscar,

Instead he saw it as a chance to teach the young men what it was like to be an American, which Oscar appreciated. It was very obvious that it was something that Oscar took pride in, even though he would get called a pickle every Thursday because of the mandatory uniform he had to wear. After 9/11 he felt that he had to give back in the only way he knew, which was enlisting in the military. Even though Oscar easily met all the qualifications to join the military, there was one thing stopping him, he didn’t have a green card. After hearing the devastating new from Major Goins, the author clearly reflects that Oscar’s determination was heightened not diminished. He put in more hours, did more push ups, learned the preamble word for word, and won every medal possible, but still was unable to fulfill his dream. It was devastating to watch two other cadets go off to training, while he was stuck in a mattress factory, all because his mother brought him across the border one night without a visa. Even after his dream was crushed, he still had determination to do something and make something of himself like his parents wanted. So when he walked into Fredi Lajvardi’s

He takes you back to their lives in Mexico to see the different struggles and challenges that they had to go through and what pushed the families to come to America. They each crossed the border, some more than once, but it was a different experience for all four of them, coming across at different times in their lives. Each family had to give up and sacrifice a lot all in the hopes to give their family a better chance at life. Even after they crossed, the challenges didn’t stop there. For Cristian he was just five years old when he came across. Before he came, he had a really hard time trying to find something he was passionate about and would be good at, his small and weak frame made him easy to bully. His family, especially his father, noticed that there would be no chance for him to have a better life in Mexico, which enforced the move. Even after crossing he still had a hard time adjusting, until he stumbled across Bob Vila. After finding his “fairy tale”, Cristian knew what he loved and wanted to do, but still faced many challenges ahead of him before that would come