Under The Mesquite Analysis

Challenges in your life at an early age help you shape into the person you will become. It is nature, and humans have adapted to learn from obstacles at an early age. One example is from author Guadalupe Garcia McCall, in her young adult novel “Under The Mesquite.” McCall argues in her book about no matter how many obstacles life may throw at you, whether it is a sick relative, or adapting to a new culture, it is up to you to make the decisions that will shape you into the person that you will become. McCall begins in supporting her claim by making Lupita, the main protagonist of this story, relatable. By making Lupita relatable with the reader, the reader is able to connect to Lupita’s story and may find some similarities within Lupita’s story to the reader’s story as well. McCall also created Lupita to closely relate to herself. McCall attempts to relate to the reader with Lupita’s stories, …show more content…
With the poetic narrative style of this book, Guadalupe Garcia McCall is able to create this realistic and sad world from Lupita’s perspective that you are able to feel in your heart, giving you the sense that what Lupita experiences the reader experiences as well. From assimilating her mexican latino culture with the american culture to her mother’s cancer and later on death, to the overwhelming pressure in trying to become the anchor of her family, Lupita’s life is faced with extreme life challenges. Guadalupe Garcia McCall argues that even though there is life challenges and even though they might be overwhelming, you must come to accept the consequences, and let the challenges shape you into who you will become in the future, and she is able to tell this in this inspiring and heart-wrenching story. In conclusion, Under The Mesquite tries to convey the theme of acceptance, and does it