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Cantú’s Father
Cantú visits his paternal uncle—his father’s brother—while he’s working in intelligence in El Paso. As a contractor, his uncle represents a person who has been able to destroy a natural landscape for work despite loving it so dearly, and as such he holds a mirror up to Cantú, who is internally grappling with the moral implications of his work in Border Patrol.
Cantú’s Uncle Quotes in The Line Becomes a River
The The Line Becomes a River quotes below are all either spoken by Cantú’s Uncle or refer to Cantú’s Uncle. 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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My uncle began to recount all the natural things he had been made to destroy in the years he worked as a contractor in Santa Fe. At one job site he tore down a mighty pine tree and cut it into pieces. […] It’s overwhelming sometimes, he said, to think of all the trees I’ve killed, all the scars I’ve left in the land.
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Cantú’s Uncle Quotes in The Line Becomes a River
The The Line Becomes a River quotes below are all either spoken by Cantú’s Uncle or refer to Cantú’s Uncle. 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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My uncle began to recount all the natural things he had been made to destroy in the years he worked as a contractor in Santa Fe. At one job site he tore down a mighty pine tree and cut it into pieces. […] It’s overwhelming sometimes, he said, to think of all the trees I’ve killed, all the scars I’ve left in the land.
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