Rain of Gold is a story about two mexican families living during the time of the mexican revolution and points out how the Indians were mistreated. The story begins with an Indian tribe who find a cliff face of gold. Than through a series of greedy deals are swindled out of it by greedy merchants and eventually white men from america who enslaved the mexican people forcing them to work the mines. And a revolution began. The story jumps to a girl named Lupe living in a lean to with her mother, three sisters, and a brother her father having left to find work in the lowlands. Lupe milked the goats every morning and helped her mother make a living by feeding the miners. But they were always on the lookout for soldiers who would beat and rape them.
