Today we watched part of the movie Wetback, it was interesting. Wetback is about two friends crossing the many borders of Latin America. They started in Nicaragua and are now crossing the border of Mexico. They are going to try and get to Canada to live a better life. A connection between this and the book Ask Me No Questions are the fact that both are trying to cross the Canadian border, because they will have a better life there. A few good quotes that I found in Ask Me No Questions about the border were:
"We go lient in the car. This is the last strech, past the signs for Bass shoe outlets and cigarettes sold cheap. We're going to leave the main highway soon and stop at the immigration station on the boreder between Vermont and Canada and tell them we're asking for asylum. We'll ill out some forms and it will take a long time, but then they'll let us go to the other side." (11)
"Our car slows and we see four - no, seven - no, maybe a dozen cars ahead of us. Around the bend a Greyhound bus is letting out lots of people: men in long white kurtas - knit scarves around their necks - and women whose shalwar kameezes stick out from their sweaters. Everyone is stamping their feet in the cold. Just beyond is a low brick building, the red and white Canadian flag snapping on a pole." (12)
"The tip of the man's nose is rosy red, and he's got gingery freckles all over his cheeks. 'Passports?' He says as if he knows not to bother. 'We are applying for asylum in your country, sir,' Abba replies. Ma is leaning forward to the left so sharply, I think she is going to fall into Abba's lap. The man shakes his head, droplets spattering off the brim of his hat. 'Sorry. We're full up here. Overwhelmed. People have been coming nonstop, and we can't process them all."

To be continued...