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Essay / Tanaka Brothers Farm: Chapter Summary: The Tanaka...
Migrants pay a lot of money for travel and advice from various people along the way across the border. The bottom line is that migrants were deceived into crossing the border only to work in dangerous conditions and earn little money. The migrants were unhappy with the working conditions and the little money they earned. Abelino, thirty-five years old, father of four and Triqui cherry picker, said in this chapter that the employees make you pick with your hands, bending over and on your knees. Picking hurts their backs and also makes many migrants furious at having to continue picking. In this chapter, Abelino experiences many intense pains while picking. He once felt pain in his right knee during one of the countless times he pivoted from right to left. Abelino told the supervisor about his severe pain after a day of work and his supervisor simply told him “ok.” Abelino worked many days on the Tanaka brothers' farm in great suffering and barely harvested the minimum. He ended up seeing four doctors, a physiotherapist and a Triqui healer. Eventually, a rehabilitation doctor diagnosed her pain as patellar tendinitis, or inflammation of the tendons behind.