Candido And America Summary

Intro
T.C. Boyle focused on major topics identical to stereotypes, and racism from two points of view the illegal Mexican standpoint (Candido and America) a common-law couple, and the rich suburban white couple (Delaney and Kyra). Candido and America constantly were fighting and at a stalemate through the record of the book—however, so were Delaney and Kyra. Even though Candido and America fought about the necessities, like water and food as well as shelter; so, in turn, they struggle with who they are, and if they truly are as off-putting as the white people said and thought they were. The same goes for Delaney and Kyra as they veered through this hole in the road of their relationship.
Boyle’s purpose of this book is to spread awareness of these categorizations we as a society, brand with people we deem as virtuous, better or worse off than us—generally based
Mainly because of the time in which he based and published it: 1995; a time when the only ones who had owned books were the wealthy. Those who were interested in learning about the less privileged people of their time, or era in which he based the book, in the 1960s—same era of the Baby Boom; an era in which there was an uproar in racism especially with groups similar to the KKK. Some can argue that this book was written for those white people who are wealthy and choose to have a narrow-minded view of other people who are different from them in nearly about anyway. Or even, an ex-illegal with Low Self-efficacy of something they may have done to receive what they have now. Nevertheless, this point is arguable, but I believe that the era in which this book is based has a giant factor into who his intended audience is. Even though Boyle’s original intention can be viewed as simple awareness of the stereotypes and racism that occurs in everyday