In his introduction to the book, Julián Olivares noted that the title story was one of three, the others being "The Salamanders" and "Zoo Island," which "bring into focus the experience of the migratory cycle." In "The Harvest," "this cycle is enclosed within the greater cycle of life, death and regeneration." Discussing the story's culminating moment of revelation, Olivares commented, "The sense of deracination caused by migrant farmwork is countered by the youngster's awareness of belonging to a world. According to Patricia De La Fuente, who reviewed the book in Western American Literature, "Rivera possesses that rare ability in writers to convert everyday episodes in the lives of ordinary people into small masterpieces of sparse yet often lyrical prose." Humans could in fact be considered pack or herd animals by that defining trait and some could even go into a heated debate that we are.The publication of The Harvest: Short Stories five years after Rivera's death cemented his reputation as the foremost chronicler of the Chicano migrant workers' experience. A person could be easily judged by the neighborhood they live in, their country, the car they drive, what organizations they are a part of and so on and so on. We like to be a part of something because it gives us an identity. I agree with this short story, mostly because of it's accurate description and portrayal of human nature. The collection is arranged into six series: 1) Film 2) Television 3) Plays 4) Books 5) The National Endowment for the Humanities and 6) Audio and Video Materials. We read about how proud Jose is to be not just a farmhand, but a member of that number and a citizen of Zoo Island and how it makes him want to shout with this pride. From the Collection: The papers of filmmaker and writer Severo Perez span 1972-2010 and document his career in film and television, and as a writer. And now we get the aftermath of the census from Jose's point of view. 88 1/2" (one of the women had given birth). We then end this short story with Jose and company putting a sing up over the entrance to the farm reading "Zoo Island. Jose thanks him and Simon expresses his approval of the census and tells the boys that they should name the farm "Zoo Island", for his own reasons. Perez also donated an extensive amount of audiovisual material which includes film reels and prints for and the earth did not swallow him as well as many of his other film projects. He did that too, but mostly in his mind where no one could hear it, he said. The papers of filmmaker and writer Severo Perez span 1972-2010 and document his career in film and television, and as a writer. Jose was curious and asked Simon why he didn't talk much and Simon explained it was because he didn't want to say anything that wouldn't help him later or make him look like a fool.Most people talk too much, even talk to themselves. The boys ask Don Simon his age (old enough), when he was born (when his mother "born" him), where he was born (in the world), and if he had any family (no). Something reminds them that they've forgotten someone Don Simon, a man who lives on the other side of the farm. Jose, Hank and Jitter count eighty-six people (counting unborn children as halves), which is more than the number of people in the town where they buy grocieries. Their antics are discussed and debated by their elders, but are nonetheless encouraged in their escapade. In Zoo Island, Tomas Rivera is telling the story of Jose, a young farmhand and his friends Hank and Jitter who decide to take a census of the people living on the farm with them.
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