(guest poster: Katie W.)
Sex:1/5
Language:1/5
Violence:1/5
Did I love it:5/5
Great story! I read the Spanish translation in an effort to improve my Spanish skills, so I may have missed a few things. However, I feel like I understood it pretty well. Excellent commentary on class/ racial discrimination in the U.S. in the early 1900s.
Plot: A young upper-class Mexican girl (Esperanza) and her mother are displaced from their home by the girl's uncle when her father dies. They move to the US to start a new life and Esperanza learns about discrimination and how to fend for herself as she learns how to live an unprivileged life.
Sex: None... there is a very slight, almost nonexistent romance between Esperanza and a boy that helps her family. No kissing.
Language: None.
Violence: Esperanza's uncle tries to manipulate the family through burning their house down and threatening to do worse. Not graphic. Minor violence with strikes in the U.S.- mostly descriptions of sabotage and unjust deportations.
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