1. Jimmy Baca's story Coming into Language genre is that of an autobiography that appears as a tragedy that ends in some variation of a victory.
2. My personal experience with autobiographies that share great hardship and result in great success has been rather good due to the following works of literature such as, Lone Survivor, 127 Hours, and Unbroken.
3. The title of Coming into Language in my personal opinion gave the information that it'd be someone entering the world of a new language or literature; which was something Jimmy Baca did do in a certain way.
4. At the beginning we know little about Jimmy Baca until we read through the short autobiography. Within his story, we learn of the struggles, hardships and abuse that he had to deal with while growing intellectually with his own and others works of writing.
5. Coming into Language looked like a story told through a sophisticated inmate going over his past times through his own version of hell. The author does dance around in an artistic way throughout the story at times as if his own were fluctuating with the story itself.
Coming into Language is a story of a man dealing with the hardships and abuse of his life through a seemingly terrible re-education system. It's clearly observed that Jimmy Baca, the story's protagonist and writer deals with the abuse of guards as they hit him in the back of the head or throw urine and hot water on him. At times he witnesses the sadism of guards as they chain an inmate on the ground and laugh at him. Later on in the story Baca is thrown in 23 hour a day isolation for refusing to work showing even more issues from the guards and leadership of the prison management.
From these horrid situations it can be easily inferred that Jimmy Baca is making a point against the US correctional system, possibly even privatized or contracted prisons due to the fact of required work. The events he endures are unfortunate and full of human right violations. It shows a great deal of corruption and wrong doings. However, there's a great deal of beauty that blossoms within the story for that matter too.
As the story goes on, Jimmy Baca delves into the greatness known as literature. Although there's a great under tone of darkness, corruption and brutality, the true point of this autobiography I believe is the greatness and power of the human mind's creative ability to produce great works of writing. It's even shown that other inmates would pay Jimmy in contraband or hard earned supplies, something of great luxury in the prison systems. The fact that the people considered the underbelly of society would sacrifice their luxuries for poems or letters to be sent to their loved ones is fantastic. The story held great tragedy but in reality it ended in triumph as Baca remains 'happy' and motivated through his and other's writings.
3. The title of Coming into Language in my personal opinion gave the information that it'd be someone entering the world of a new language or literature; which was something Jimmy Baca did do in a certain way.
4. At the beginning we know little about Jimmy Baca until we read through the short autobiography. Within his story, we learn of the struggles, hardships and abuse that he had to deal with while growing intellectually with his own and others works of writing.
5. Coming into Language looked like a story told through a sophisticated inmate going over his past times through his own version of hell. The author does dance around in an artistic way throughout the story at times as if his own were fluctuating with the story itself.
Coming into Language is a story of a man dealing with the hardships and abuse of his life through a seemingly terrible re-education system. It's clearly observed that Jimmy Baca, the story's protagonist and writer deals with the abuse of guards as they hit him in the back of the head or throw urine and hot water on him. At times he witnesses the sadism of guards as they chain an inmate on the ground and laugh at him. Later on in the story Baca is thrown in 23 hour a day isolation for refusing to work showing even more issues from the guards and leadership of the prison management.
From these horrid situations it can be easily inferred that Jimmy Baca is making a point against the US correctional system, possibly even privatized or contracted prisons due to the fact of required work. The events he endures are unfortunate and full of human right violations. It shows a great deal of corruption and wrong doings. However, there's a great deal of beauty that blossoms within the story for that matter too.
As the story goes on, Jimmy Baca delves into the greatness known as literature. Although there's a great under tone of darkness, corruption and brutality, the true point of this autobiography I believe is the greatness and power of the human mind's creative ability to produce great works of writing. It's even shown that other inmates would pay Jimmy in contraband or hard earned supplies, something of great luxury in the prison systems. The fact that the people considered the underbelly of society would sacrifice their luxuries for poems or letters to be sent to their loved ones is fantastic. The story held great tragedy but in reality it ended in triumph as Baca remains 'happy' and motivated through his and other's writings.
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