The Circuit

Just imagine you work every day of your life just to stay alive it is like being on a horrible rollercoaster over and over again. Your job is to pick the crops that are in season and when the season ends you move to a new farm. In one day you make 15 dollars to feed 6 people in your family, spend money to make one of your kids go to school, and to pay for your home and you never get any days off. If you would compare your life to theirs, you would appreciate how much your life is better than back then.
In the story “The Circuit” the main character whose name was never said has to move again to a new farm. His family which speaks a different language moves from place to place to find a job to pick the crops and to except what any other job to afar, or to pick whatever is in season at the farm. When that crop or season is over, the family of six moves to a new farm, because they make their money off of the plants they pick. Every time they have to leave, he hates to go, but he knows that he has to leave just to make enough money to stay alive. Today we have other jobs instead of working in farms all day. After picking about a whole season, the second oldest boy finally started to go to school. The boy is the only one in his family that can go to school, because that is all his parents can afford. Today kids have to go to school and if your family or you can’t afford it, the government will usually pay for the child to go to school to get an education. He went to school every day and at lunch time he would stay with the teacher and learn how to speak better English. In current times you can go to a school that teaches you how to speak English or another language better. One day at lunch time the teacher ask if he had ever listened to music? He said “yes” but not too much. After that the teacher asked if he had ever played an instrument. And he said “no”, so the teacher started to teach him how to play the trumpet. In the present we have music classes to how to play an instrument. He was so happy that his teacher was teaching him music, and now he wanted to tell his parents very badly, but when he came home everything was all packed up and ready to be sent to a new place to start their lives all over again.
Look at how much better life is today. With some of the jobs today like computer jobs you can make a living without do any much physical work, but there are jobs out there you have to do some physical like builders. Today we have ways to make are life’s easy like computers and better technology, but with power comes more responsibly.