Jasmine Lesson Plan

When the immigrants who travel together on The Gulf Breeze arrive onshore in Florida, what type of vehicles do they climb into? Why does Little Clyde climb in the trunk of a sedan while the Mauritian woman sits in the back seat? Why don't the travelers wave as they part ways after such a long and intimate journey under a tarp together?

The narrator says that the "better-heeled", or the people with more money to bribe the drivers, got into panel trucks, which meant they could sit in seats instead of having to hide in trunks like Little Clyde does. So we can infer that Little Clyde had less money than Kingsland did, but we also know that he was determined not to have a...