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What is the book Crossing the Wire about?
When falling crop prices threaten his family with starvation, fifteen-year-old Victor Flores heads north in an attempt to “cross the wire” from Mexico into the United States so he can find work and send money home.
What is the conflict of Crossing the Wire?
The main conflict in Crossing the Wire would be man vs society, because many immigrants are trying to cross the border and there’s the border patrol there to stop them.
When was Crossing the Wire written?
2006
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Who is the author of Crossing the Wire?
Will Hobbs
Crossing the Wire/Authors
Is crossing the wire a true story?
Is Victor a real person? Los Arboles is fictional, as are Victor and all the other characters. But yes, Victor’s village is based on the real-life one.
What happened to Victor’s father crossing the wire?
Veteran outdoor-adventure writer Hobbs gets in on the heated illegal-immigration debate with this account of a boy’s struggle to cross the Mexican border into the [End Page 500] U.S. Victor Flores’ father died while working as an illegal immigrant in el Norte, so Victor is scared and upset when his best friend, Rico.
What is the climax in crossing the wire?
The climax in the story is probably when Victor was on the train and he needed to jump to the side of the train tracks so once he jumped he hit his head and got all cut up and needed to be rushed to the hospital immediately.
What is the genre of crossing the wire?
Fiction
Crossing the Wire/Genres
Who are the main characters of crossing the wire?
Reader view
- Victor Flores- Narrator/main character.
- Rico Rivera- Victor’s best friend.
- Julio- Becomes a friend of Victor.
- Miguel Escobar- Met Victor on a bus then later Victor finds him again.
- Jarra – Drug trafficker who tries to use Victor and Rico as “drug mules”
What happens at the end of crossing the wire?
He also endures the freezing cold in the mountains, the scorching heat of the desert, and severe hunger. In the end, his determination and perseverance finally pay off, when Victor finds a job cutting asparagus for $60.00 a day enabling him to send money home to his family.
What is the resolution of crossing the wire?
Resolution. Victor Flores: Victor is a fifteen-year-old-boy who heads north in an attempt to “cross the wire” from Mexico into the United States so he can find work and send money home to his mother and siblings.
What is the climax of crossing the wire?