Bitter Ground By Sandra Benitez

This story takes place in El Salvador where coffee plantation is the main source of income for the rich and the poor. Sandra used coffee to compare the features of the characters as well. “ He was a homely boy with a broad flat face dark as a roasted coffee bean” (Benitez 41). Coffee plantation was famous in El salvador, since the story took place in El salvador Sandra Benitez wanted to present the history of El salvador. Coffee plantation provided living to the poor people and picking coffee was the job that was available at the time the story took place. El salvador was recovering from the civil war, coffee production boosted the economy of El salvadorian. El salvador was famous for being the best coffee growing region, coffee was planted and cultivated here. The growth of coffee increased and it benefitted the economy of El salvador. Sandra wanted to present the history of El Salvador …show more content…
It is about the women of El salvador that are passionate and they are ready to die for their love. Sandra wrote this epic story of two families; one is a higher class and the other is a working class. It follows the three generation of prieto family and the other family who owns the coffee plantation. The plot of this book is the injustice and the violence that took place in El salvador, indians were being killed brutally, many people died. From both of these family their loved ones die in the violence. The first family that encounters the danger is Ignacio Prieto’s family, he is a coffee plantation worker. He is murdered by the owner of the coffee plantation he worked on. He left his family; his wife Mercedes, his daughter Jacinta, and his son Tino. La guardia who were killing the native people adopted Tino and Tino is lost in the same violence. Thinking that Tino died Mercedes and Jacinta flee to save their life. At the end of the story Jacinta finds out that Tino is