![]() (Literary Themes for Students: The American Dream - Articles: And the Earth Did Not Devour Him TOMÁS RIVERA 1971,’’ 2007) ![]() Drawing on his background and own experiences, he explores many aspects of this lifestyle and how it affects those directly involved in his novel ‘And the earth did not devour him’. Rivera was himself the son of migrant workers and a migrant worker himself until he completed junior college. ("Tomás Rivera," 2013) The harsh life of migrant agricultural workers in the United States, its sense of realism, that had previously not been a part of Chicano literature, and its innovative literary form have now become part of it hence. He was born in Texas to migrant farm workers, and worked in the fields as a young boy. Tomás Rivera was a Chicano author, poet, and educator. The structure of the novels is enriched by the childhood of hybridism and ethnic differences that these two authors have faced growing up, which is further role played by the protagonists. ![]() Both the authors ‘biculturalism and bilingualism are also very important aspects’ (Sandra Cisneros - Wikipedia ) of their writing. Hence it is obvious that the overarching aim of the two authors in their respective novels is to highlight their rich cultural background and the modern day threats posed to it. Both the authors are successful in launching their plots’ owing to their knowledge of the familiarized chicana background that adds color to every line of their novels. To commence, it must be noted that both the authors are chicane identity wise and hence much of their work is set in the same background. Both the novels will be discussed in juxtaposition to each other to aid the process of drawing out similarities and highlighting points of comparison. The aim of this paper is to compare and contrast two beautifully rendered pieces of literature The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros and ‘And the earth did not devour him by Tomas Rivera.
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