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Deportation at Breakfast. Larry Fondation ... a day. The man in “Deportation
at Breakfast” is both the narrator and the main character. ...
... and take the bag with great anticipation of the hot breakfast sandwich that ... over
each other with promises to round up millions for deportation, erect massive ...
... was to show no fear, or else those criminals would eat you for breakfast. ... April of
1962, and released from the federal prison system via deportation to Canada ...
... He took breakfast with the Spanish officers, who now regarded him very differently ...
of the espionage of that trip, which just preceded his deportation to Dapitan ...
Submitted by valdemar on August 26, 2007
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Larry Fondation’s “Deportation at Breakfast” is a short story about a man who comes to a diner, where he finds out that he must cook his own eggs, and ends up owning the joint for at least a day.
The man in “Deportation at Breakfast” is both the narrator and the main character.
The setting is a homey diner called “Clara’s”, where the protagonist is “lured” into, with the promise of inexpensive food. The place appeals, “family-run and clean,” the signs “neat,” and the interior are “old-fashioned.” But the protagonist also has an appealing disposition. He sits at the counter, “leaving the empty tables for other customers that might come in.” He seems like a nice guy, just any guy looking for a clean place to eat, in what seems to be a very ordinary day in an ordinary diner, but the extraordinary event of deportation occurs.
The atmosphere is surprisingly relaxed in the diner in spite of the deportation. No one except the protagonist, because he is alone and sits by the counter, seems to draw any attention to the storekeeper Javier when he gets expelled.
“The eggs were spread out on the griddle, the bread plunged inside the toaster, when the authorities came in. They grabbed Javier quickly and without a word, forcing his hands behind his back. He, too, said nothing. He did not resist, and they shoved him out the door and into their waiting car.”
So, Javier gets taken and in the next sentence the eggs are bubbling. We have a normal scene interrupted by something extraordinary, an action that needs a response. At this point the protagonist seems to care more about his meal than about Javier. The causality could be reasoned by a lot of illegal migrants in the USA.
“On the grill, my eggs bubbles. I looked around for another employee–maybe one out back somewhere, or in the washroom. I leaned over the counter and called for someone. No one answered.” Javier starts the eggs, gets taken, and thus leaves the eggs....
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