Jan 2, 2010
The Brick People | The Brick People
At a glance:
- Author: Alejandro Morales
- First Published: 1988
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Historical realism
- Time of Work: The 1890’s to the 1940’s
- Setting: Southern California
- Genres: Long fiction, Historical fiction
- Subjects: North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, Nineteenth century, 1940’s, Depression, economic, Yards or backyards, 1910’s, 1920’s, 1930’s, California, West, U.S., Ethnic groups, Mexican Americans, Migrant labor, Latinos, Labor, Bricks or bricklaying, Labor unions
- Locales: California
Characters Discussed
Octavio Revueltas (ohk-TAH- vee-oh
rreh-VWEHL-tahs), a Mexican immigrant who arrives at Simons brickyard during
the Mexican Revolution. He becomes an expert brickmaker and learns to gamble in order to
supplement his income. When he weds Nana de León in 1926, they begin a family whose
children will be first-generation Chicanos and Chicanas, people of Mexican descent born and
reared in the United States. Octavio becomes increasingly interested in the union movement
because he believes that the Simons family exercises too much control over the workers’...
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