Luiselli reveals each successive question when describing particular cases on which she worked as a translator, uniting their experiences and illuminating a pattern of abuse and neglect. The list of 40 questions were designed by nonprofit organizations in order to collect the experiences of immigrant children into a cohesive narrative for attorneys to reference in their defense. The 40 questions referenced in the title of the essay refer to the intake questionnaire. Interwoven through the list of questions are the author’s own experiences with issues of immigration, identity, and belonging. From her position as an immigrant, mother, educator, writer, and translator she describes the process of screening children through an intake questionnaire. In this four-part essay, Valleria Luiselli explains the phenomenon of the 2014 “immigration crisis” in which thousands of undocumented children from Central America arrived at the southern border of the United States. Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions. The following version of this book was used for the creation of this study guide: Luiselli, Valeria.
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