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In six pages this paper discusses Sanchez’s novel and also incorporates relevant issues of the time period, including the Bay of Pigs, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Vietnam War, and the moon landing. Nine sources are cited in the bibliography.
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an island that represents the ultimate artistic freedom to writers like Tennessee Williams and Ernest Hemingway (who practically put Key West on the map) and refugees who left their homelands
with little more than their lives, but also serves as a prison for those who are unable to exorcise the ghosts of their pasts (Abeel). Thomas Sanchezs 1990 novel
Mile Zero features the eclectic individual and cultural mix that comprise the diverse Key West landscape. The title is a reference to the last road sign marker one sees
before reaching the Atlantic Ocean, and the area of Key West serves as a metaphor of a final destination. The characters featured in Mile Zero are a hodgepodge of
individuals that themselves symbolize a bridge of African, Latin, and Anglo cultures and an intermingling of ancient Caribbean rituals and twenty-first century high-tech ("Thomas Sanchez: Mile Zero"). The vivid
opening section makes the most of colliding imagery with a space shuttle speeding into the great unknown while Caribbean immigrants are seeking a one-way passage to the United States ("Thomas
Sanchez: Mile Zero"). For decades, Key West has provided a protective haven for those wishing to retreat from society or for individuals who
want to go into hiding from government or law enforcement authorities. Ironically, antiwar activist St. Cloud had relocated to Key West in order to live as an expatriate in
protest of the United States involvement in the Vietnam War and some Cuban nationalists that had been involved in the torture of American soldiers near Hanoi in 1967 and 1968
(Albarelli). These men had orchestrated the prolonged beating death of POW U.S. Navy pilot Capt. Earl Cobeil and the systematic torture of a U.S. Air Force Major named James
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