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Summary Of The Underdogs By Marias Azuela

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The Mexican Revolution

In 1910 working citizens and indigenous people of Mexico decided they had enough of the government. They were Tired of the way the government treated the citizens. They took their land and forced them to work for barely anything, so they started a revolution. After the revolt there were many books written to describe what the time period was like for the people. One book written was The Underdogs by Mariano Azuela. The question is: is this book accurate? Or way off from the truth. In addition, was this rebellion changing anything, or were the people fighting with no direction. The revolutionaries were always fighting with one goal in mind which was to bring justice to the people. After years of fighting they did just …show more content…

Diaz was a positivist, and because of this Mexico was run under the belief that order and progress were everything. Diaz also believed that everything should be documented including land ownership. However, the problem with this concept was that many poor families, especially the indigenous people did not have any documentation for their land. This consequently led to them losing their homes. Families that have been living on land for decades were ripped away from all that they had known. Unfortunately, without any documentation they couldn’t even fight what was being done to them. If they refused to leave the government often times would just burn down their houses. This is briefly expressed in Azuela’s book when one the men fighting expresses how the government had “burned” his house giving him the desire for justice, so he joined the …show more content…

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