It is hard for many immigrants to make it as a US citizen. In the book Buried Onions by Gary Soto, he describes how hard it really was for a Mexican to make it in America. There were many hardships in life for the Mexicans or any non-American. In this book the main character Eddie is trying to make it. He his trying to fit in to his all white community in Fresno, California. His father and cousins are all dead due to gang violence and his mother is living with her sister in San Francisco. Both of them are coke fiends.

Eddie dropped out of the community college her was attending. He dropped out shortly after his cousin Jesus was killed at a nightclub. Eddie is making a living by painting numbers on the concrete in front of peoples houses and like most Mexicans do...