Sunday, March 8, 2009
SETTING!!
The setting of the book takes place in two parts of Mexico. Lupe lives in La Lluvia de Oro, in the high mountains in northwest Mexico. In this part of Mexico there is a gold mine so they call it Rain of Gold in English. Lupe's part of the story takes place in a village like town with a lot of poor peasants living in houses of stone and lean-tos out of sticks and mud. The reason why most of the people live in poverty is because of the unequal shares of land which is owned by the haciendos. The horrendous conditions are also from the reign of Porfiro Diaz who wanted to be like the the Europeans and forget the old traditions of the Indians and creoles. This is during the Revolution of Mexico. The second part of the story takes place with Juan Salvador is just outside of Leon. Juan's family is on the run trying to get food from place to place. Juan and his family wanted to get across the Rio Grande but the town that there grandfather owned got destroyed.
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I think that it is interesting to think about the relationship between the social status of Lupe's family an the climate they live in. They are very poor and live in a lean-to, so obviously they aren't very well off. The only advantage they have is the climate they live in. The heat in mexico makes life much easier then if they lived in a colder climate.
ReplyDeleteThat is true. If Lupe's family was in a climate like Minnesota they would freeze before they starve in the winter since there are no crops you can grow in the winter.
ReplyDeleteI think this could happen in different place like in the Dominican Republic like in the Time of the Butterflies.Since the Dominican Republic was under the rule of a dictator Trujillo , like Diaz in Rain Of Gold, was unfair to the people of the country and controlled most of the actions of the citizens of the nation.
ReplyDeleteI agree that the rulers Diaz and Trujillo are very similair characters in the two books. I think we may find parallels as both books progress.
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