Clemente Chacon

Dec 10, 2002
Chicano Lit
Prof. Roberto Cantu
Final Paper


Clemente Chacon


The book I chose for my research paper is Clemente Chacon by Jose Antonio Villarreal. This book deals with existential circumstances about a boy, which grows up on the Mexican side of the border and through crossing into the United States, he slowly rises into a high position in the Anglo-American business world. What is fascinating about this story is that it is not simply a story a biographical story about the difficulties the boy endured and how he overcame them. This story in intertwined with many themes, which occur in Chicano literature. Themes such as immigration, pressures of assimilation, Mexican and Chicano sexual and religious taboos, father and son parallelism, mother and son antagonism, among many others. The chapters of the book are mixed up in a way, they go from when the protagonist is grown up to when he was a little boy in the mean...