Genre
Play, Chicana Play
Language
English, Spanish
Setting and Context
The Arizona desert
Narrator and Point of View
The point of view is that of both Sandi and Lou, the two protagonists.
Tone and Mood
Threatening, resentful, hate-filled, remorseful
Protagonist and Antagonist
Sandi and Lou are protagonists in their own sub-plots. The ICE authorities are the antagonists in Sandi's story, kidnappers are the antagonists in Lou's story
Major Conflict
There is conflict between Sandi and the officials who detain her because she does not want to give them her identification on principle, feeling that she has been profiled by her appearance.
Climax
Sandi and Lou escape their captivities and learn how hard it is to survive in the desert.
Foreshadowing
The sons of the man who was murdered believe that the inflammatory rhetoric Lou uses on his radio show foreshadowed the murder of their father.
Understatement
Lou's speech is described as inflammatory which is an understatement because his style is to incite argument and hate and watch the result.
Allusions
The character of Lou alludes to the genre of shock jock radio that is inflammatory.
Imagery
The imagery basis itself in the harsh, barren and thoroughly unwelcoming nature of the desert and the almost impossibility of surviving it.
Paradox
The sons feel that Lou's radio show is responsible for a violent act against their father yet they have no problem at all committing a violent act against him.
Parallelism
There is a parallel between Sandi's captivity and escape and Lou's, and their experiences surviving the desert together. There is also a parallel in their both having to learn to live with and work with the person whose views are completely antagonistic to their own.
Personification
N/A
Use of Dramatic Devices
N/A
