For this assignment, you will need to read Mariano Azuela’s “The Underdogs” in either English or Spanish. The Spanish title is “Los de Abajo”. After reading the book, answer the following questions.
1. Who was Mariano Azuela?
2. When did he live?
3. What did he write about?
4. What does this book reveal about life in Mexico at the time it discussed?
5. What does this book say about push-and-pull factors concerning why so many Mexicans chose to emigrate from Mexico to the United States during the time period it covered?
Please write a simple five-paragraph essay of at least 500 words. Your essay will be due Friday, 10 December at midnight.
After submitting your essay, please reply to at least two classmates by Sunday, 12 December at midnight. Your replies should be at least 75 words.
Your essay is worth up to 80 points.
Your replies are worth up to 20 points for an assignment total of 100 points.
The following is the link to a free copy of the text:
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/549
Feel free to use this or any other online or printed copy.
