Geraldo No Last Name Analysis

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In the short story, “Geraldo No Last Name,” Sandra Cisneros tells a story of an immigrant with no identification and undocumented, “no address. No name. Nothing in his pockets”(57). The short story is about a woman named Marin who meets Geraldo at a dance party; she is the last person to see him alive before the accident happened to him, before the hit and run incident. The connection between the story of undocumented immigrants is also explored in art in the form of sculpture by Valerie James and her fellow artist Antonia Gallegos, specifically in a sculpture called “Las Madres”, and it is featured in the article written by Sameen Amin and Lori Gliha. Unlike Sandra Cisneros, James and Gallegos’ art sculpture focuses on various materials left by undocumented immigrants who died along their journey in the Sonoran desert. …show more content…
Thousands of undocumented immigrants crossing into America hoping to have a greater opportunities. According to David Androff and Kyoto Tavassoli in their research report, “deaths in the desert: the human right crisis on the U.S.- Mexico border”, explaining that, “[in] 2008 report by the Center estimated that 11.9 million unauthorized immigrants lived in the United States; it concluded that the undocumented immigrant population grew rapidly from 1990 to 2006 but has since stabilized” (Passel and Cohn). This shows that immigrants who have no identification have been around and living in the United States for so many years, despite the difficulties along their journey and the situation to be separated from their
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