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This 3 page paper discusses his autobiographical novel, "A Place to Stand," by Jimmy Santiago Baca. Bibliography lists 2 sources/
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a barrio near Albuquerque; another that he was born in Santa Fe; still another says that his father died of alcoholism when the boy was five and "his mother was
involved with a second husband who eventually murdered her" (Jimmy Santiago Baca, 2001). Whatever the truth, all agree that he spent most of his childhood in an orphanage, ran away
by the age of 12-13, and wound up on the streets where he abused alcohol and drugs. He went to prison for five years when he was 21 on a
drug charge, and served the entire sentence, most of it in isolation. It is from that experience that A Place to Stand comes. Discussion Jimmy taught himself to read and
write in jail, and writes of struggling to comprehend a book and becoming so involved that "time, jail noise, cells and walls all vanished" (Baca, 2001, p. 99). Baca
was introduced to jail early in his life, when his father was arrested for drunkenness and his mother took the five-year old Baca with her when she went to see
her husband (Baca 2001). She refused to sign the release papers but dragged the boy with her to the jail cell where he saw his father, groggy and red-eyed, stumbling
over other sleeping drunks as he tottered to the bars of the cell (Baca 2001). He father tried to take his hand, but his mother "yanked" him away and marched
him out of there (Baca 2001). Although Baca would subsequently become familiar with a large number of jail cells, that first experience never left him; "[I]t remained a fixed, haunting
reference point to which I would return time and again. Whether I was approach it or seeking escape from it, jail always defined in some way the measure of my
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