5/30/2023 0 Comments Migrant by Maxine Trottier![]() ![]() Metaphors, Anna’s imaginative tool, may require some introduction to young readers and some practice in their use. Anna’s imagination lifts this story through and beyond the hardships of migrant life. ![]() Literary elements at work in the story: Pictures and text in Migrant are a single voice the book has won prizes for both its art ( NY TIMES, Best Illustrated, 2011) and story (ALA Notable Books, 2012). Fall comes and Anna and her family travel back to Mexico “…like a robin, like a feather in the wind.” The author provides information about the Mennonite migrants who travel from Mexico to Canada each year at the close of the story. She flies like a goose, borrows a jack rabbit’s burrow, flies from plant to plant like a bee, snuggles with her sister’s like a kitten, hears languages as a thousand crickets, and imagines being like a tree with deep roots that never moves. Anna has an imagination that mutes and even enriches the hardship of travel, long working hours for her family, poor living quarters, little money, and being different. They have maintained their language, low German, and their community identity. Now they return each year to harvest the crops. ![]() They are from a Mennonite community that once lived in Canada and left for Mexico seeking freedom to worship. Summary: Anna’s family travels from Mexico to Canada each summer to harvest fruits and vegetables. ![]()
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