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Like Luiselli herself, Luiselli’s husband is a writer and an immigrant. When their family takes a road trip to Arizona and listens to radio programs covering the sudden influx of child migrants, Luiselli’s husband engages in conversations with her about how, exactly, to talk about the “immigration crisis” with their own children.
Luiselli’s Husband Quotes in Tell Me How It Ends
The Tell Me How It Ends quotes below are all either spoken by Luiselli’s Husband or refer to Luiselli’s Husband. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 1 Quotes
We wanted to become “resident aliens,” even though we knew what applying for green cards implied: the lawyers, the expenses, the many vaccinations and medical exams, the months of sustained uncertainty, the rather humiliating intermediate steps, such as having to wait for an “advance parole” document in order to be able to leave the country and be paroled back in, like a criminal, as well as the legal prohibition against traveling abroad, without losing immigration status, before being granted advance parole. Despite all that, we decided to apply.
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We wonder if the reactions would be different were all these children of a lighter color: of better, purer breeds and nationalities. Would they be treated more like people? More like children? We read the papers, listen to the radio, see photographs, and wonder.
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Luiselli’s Husband Character Timeline in Tell Me How It Ends
The timeline below shows where the character Luiselli’s Husband appears in Tell Me How It Ends. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapter 1: Border
...Luiselli—a Mexican immigrant herself—volunteers as an interpreter, she goes on a road trip with her husband, daughter, and stepson (who’s visiting from Mexico). She and her family are waiting for their...
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On the road trip in 2014, Luiselli and her husband try to find any information they can about the child migrants coming into the United...
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Some of the news sources that Luiselli and her husband read frame the crisis as something like a “biblical plague.” Reading these sources makes Luiselli...
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To pass the time in the car, Luiselli and her husband tell their children stories about the history of the American Southwest, “back when it used...
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Luiselli and her husband try to talk to their children about the immigration crisis, but they have trouble answering...
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...walking in the desert.” While they’re in this region of the country, Luiselli and her husband avoid talking about the fact that they’re Mexican. Still, Border Patrol officers stop them several...
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