Rain of Gold

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The becoming of Lupe and Juan The book Rain of Gold by Victor Villasenor portrays the life of his ancestors and their families from both sides of his family, his father, Juan Salvador Villasenor, and his mother, Maria Guadalupe "Lupe" Gomez. The book shows the story of his parents and their journeys to the United States across the border as undocumented immigrants from Mexico in an effort to escape the Mexican Revolution..Dispite the different struggles both familes go through in their suriving their journey,the author portrays their similarities and how their journeys combine through the marriage of the youngest son of the Villasenor family and the youngest daughter of the Gomez family. The author effectively uses literary devices such as simile, metaphor, imagery, and personification. When he hits a serious part in the book he add in comic relief to lighten the mood. For example, "' Now squat,' said Angelina,' like you're going to take an enormous caca.(55)'" This is humerous because the midwife is telling Socorro to squat as f she is going to use the restroom. It relieves the mood because Socorro is in labor and she is in pain. Besides dialouge being used, simile is also implied in this context, the author is comparing a normal squat to a squat used when you go to the restroom. When the suthor uses dialouge it gives the story more of a thrill because you as the reader feel as if your experiencing that moment. You can also hear the emotion in which the characters say the dialouge. It is concluded that the book, Rain of Gold, Victor Villasenor effetively uses literay devices and dialouge to portray the depth struggles in Lupe and Juan have to go thre to end up with each other. The audience is first intoduced to a seven year old,kind,loving Lupe. The author describes her as the child of the meteorite, not because she is born from an actual meteorite,

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