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This is a 6 page paper discussing the symbolism as portrayed by the coyote as similar to that of the American attitude toward illegal immigrants in the United States. T.C. Boyle’s “The Tortilla Curtain” tells an effective story of illegal immigration in Southern California. While he tells the story of several characters throughout the novel he best depicts the feelings of the characters symbolically by paralleling the story of the immigrants as comparable to the coyotes which continuously intrude into the yards of the residents in the community. By using the coyote symbolism, Boyle best expresses the duality felt by the characters and by American citizens in general in that many feel that the illegal immigrants are intruding upon their “space” in the United States and arriving impoverished and hungry while at the same time everybody understands that the immigrants, and the coyotes, only cross the border in hopes for rewards of a better life because of it.
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story of several characters throughout the novel he best depicts the feelings of the characters symbolically by paralleling the story of the immigrants as comparable to the coyotes which continuously
intrude into the yards of the residents in the community. By using the coyote symbolism, Boyle best expresses the duality felt by the characters and by American citizens in general
in that many feel that the illegal immigrants are intruding upon their "space" in the United States and arriving impoverished and hungry while at the same time everybody understands that
the immigrants, and the coyotes, only cross the border in hopes for rewards of a better life because of it. The story tells
of two couples in Southern California who are each trying to keep out intruders symbolized in the storyline which follows the coyote. Candido Rancon and his pregnant wife America, live
a hard life off the land which lends itself to a certain amount of sympathy from the reader until Candido beats his wife and steals (Singer 01E). This immigrant couple
are seen upon as intruders by the other main couple in the novel, Delaney and Kyra Mossbacher. Their lives collide beginning with Delaney driving through the canyon when his "freshly
waxed Japanese car with personalized plates" hits Candido on a road going through the canyon (Boyle 3). While the lives of these two couples continue to overlap, the situation of
the Mossbachers and Candido is symbolically compared to that of the coyote: who are considered intruders and are unsuccessfully kept out of their lives by fences; whose capture is compared
to that of the illegal Mexican immigrants; and, whose adaptation is eventually endured. While some critics may feel that almost all of the characters in the novel are symbolic in
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