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Eric's Biography
Harvesting Hope:
The Story of Cesar Chavez
By Kathleen Krull
Illustrated by Yuyi Morales
Most of you may have heard of Cesar Chavez before. Many people were named after him and still are today. Cesar Chavez founded the National Farm Workers Association, where workers had no way to protect themselves from labor, discrimination, hate crime and more. Cesar was born and raised in Mexico and his families spend working in the fields of farm, they suffered famine, poverty and more. They decided to move to California for new life, but in the end, fate was same for his family and him. He was frustrated and decided to led an agricultural strike in U.S., the first successful in U.S. history. He captured world's attention by leading hunger strikes and marches, in the end; the National Farm Workers Association was founded. Contracts would promise farmers better wages, health insurance and other safeguards. His belief was that peaceful strike should dedicate to a cause, which was more effective than force and it was successful.
After reading and reviewing, this book is obviously based on the true story and also focused on the importance historical figure. Cesar Chavez was a real person, and his story was also real, this book focused on the impacts Cesar made on farmers' lives nowadays. This matched biography genre's description. In my opinion, this book focused on issues of social injustice and social movements and social changes for the six elements of social justice. This book emphasized on the changes of social injustice toward farmers' ethnic and background, and also Cesar's social movements and changes.
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