The Harvest Documentary Analysis

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a. Culture/pg.36: The language, beliefs, values, norms, behaviors, and even material objects that are passed from one generation to the next.
Culture is the main concept in “The Harvest” documentary on the real lives of Latino children and their families. The families didn’t have very much material culture except for the few things they packed when they had to migrate from state to state to find work. Although they did have a strong sense of nonmaterial culture, because they had strong ties to their families and religion, and it was what they valued most, which is all they really had. The families all shared a Latino language that represented their culture. Each family believed they must work hard to overcome their situations. I saw this especially …show more content…
Self/pg.70: The unique human capacity of being able to see ourselves “from the outside”; the views we internalize of how we think others see us.
Each of these children’s sense of self is very different from those of most children. They don’t really worry about their hopes and dreams and don’t think very highly of themselves. Selfish isn’t even a question when it comes to these children, because they work all day to help feed their younger siblings. Some kids in this situation have no hope or dreams because they believe they might never be able to stop working on the fields, but some do. Perla Sanchez has a dream of becoming a lawyer and helping other migrants. Victor Hualippa, who is sixteen years old, also has dreams and hopes for him and his family. Zulema Lopez on the other hand though has said that she really has no dreams right now and has been working from a very young age, and working on the field is the only thing she knows. Zulema shows her self-presentation when she puts on make-up before heading off to the fields. The fields may not be a place for make-up for most, but for her working on the field is a tedious thing, and she chooses to present herself that way. I can imagine she would much rather be putting on make-up for school, but instead she must go to the fields. Not only are there inner selves different, but also their physical selves and their health. They can’t afford healthcare and are around bad health conditions in their daily lives. These conditions are bad nutrition, which can cause diabetes, and the chemicals used and physical strain picking does to their bodies. This can cause injuries and unable them to work when they get older, which means no money, and they can’t afford healthcare. They do not believe they are suffering Zulema had said, because she knows there are many people out there that must work like she
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