Summary Of Rain Of Gold By Victor Villaseñor

Rain of Gold, written by Victor Villaseñor, retells the struggles of overcoming poverty and the sufferings as Mexicans face whilst immigrating from Mexico to California. The story primarily focuses on two families’, Lupe Gomez’s and Juan Salvador Villaseñor’s. The major hardship that the two families continually struggles for is equality. This story consists of inequalities between gender and racial classes. As both families immigrate to the United States, they realize that the way they are treated hasn’t differed. They are still abominable to Americans compared to other races. In one scene of the book, Juan was kicked out from a diner as a result of his ethnicity. Although the cook felt bad for kicking Juan out, there was nothing he could do because

The racial inequality leads to a split between Mexicans and other races. Villaseñor empowers women throughout the book. Two strong female characters in the story are Dona Guadalupe, Lupe’s mother, and Dona Margarita, Juan’s mother. Both Dona Guadalupe and Dona Margarita proves themselves as a caregiver and a leader for their family. “Dona Guadalupe put the baby’s little feet in a bowl of warm water,… that he heard from inside the womb” (57). This indicates that Dona Guadalupe is a gentle and caring character by the way she took care of Soccoro’s newborn. Dona Margarita always has a positive aura enclosing her. When situations are difficult, she would always have solutions to fix their problems. There was a scene in which she devised the perfect plan for Juan to bootleg alcohol. To Juan’s surprise, he was perplexed at how witty and creative his mother was. In order to support her family, Dona Margarita had to disgrace herself and beg. This indicates that not only is she a superb caregiver, for raising Juan to the successful man he is, she also portrays a strong willed character who endures heaps of difficult