Poverty And Victor's Family In Crossing The Wire

Imagine being so poor an individual cannot afford basic necessities for his or her family? What if he or she was all but forced to leave his or her native country at a young age out of a need for survival for them and their family? Victor is a Mexican boy from the novel Crossing the Wire whose family is impoverished. He is forced to go to America in hopes of being able to provide for his family. Poverty badly hurts Victor’s family, and Victor will have to get a job in America or Victor and his family will be doomed.
Poverty impacted Victor’s family negatively. In Chapter 2 of Crossing the Wire, Victor thinks “And Rico didn’t know what it felt like to be hungry, really hungry, the way we had been this Winter.” Victor’s family is unable