Think of a setting where one might encounter hazards with every step taken.every minute, causing one to think of a world without it. Likewise, Jeanine Cummins uses the duo of Lydia and Luca to portray such a do-or-die situation in her novel, American Dirt. Cummins showcases Lydia as a novice single mother trying to accomplish the feat of crossing the border to attain a better life of security and safety for her son and herself. A migrant is usually subjected to the identity of a low-class individual and this plays a major role in how empathy and compassion is encompassed in a reader and how one makes connections to the predicament exhibited.
Individuals with the title of “migrant” are directly tied up with a person of the lower class in society,
