'And The Lost Year' By Tomas Rivera

In the Novel “...And the Earth did not devour him,” is a story of a young boy who lives the life of Migrant farm workers with his family. The life of a Migrant workers is difficult on people who are working and have their families on the side. The land owners are always demanding and mistreating their workers. The owner of the workers refuse for their workers to have long periods of breaks for water even when the temperature is high outside. When the workers try to slip away just to drink water and get fluids running in their bodies the owner sees them slip away and points his gun in the direction and start shooting to scare the workers.
In the first section “The Lost Year,” signifies the struggle it is to keep up with the track of time. The character in the story sometimes wakes up to realize that he is still asleep and dreaming. “But before falling asleep he sees things,” this could show how the character might see all his dreams as a reality. The lost year begins when the character of the story could sometimes hear someone calling his name but can’t come to the understanding that it’s his name being called because he doesn’t remember his own name. This symbolizes how before he falls asleep he hears and see everything before he dreams which make it as a reality to him instead of a dream. In the
And the earth did not devour him” shows the experience and the life behind the migrant workers. This novel presents different stories that tells us the background of the community of Mexican- American migrant farm workers during the 1940s and 1950s. This novel shows different aspects of the Migrant workers with the hard labor, bullying and depression they went through every day. Both adults and children had witnessed the hard labor in the 1950s but yet have grown from the work as a Migrant workers. The novel connects with the readers so as we read we experience the life and see how each worker overcome the real obstacles and