Personally the Treaty of Guadalupe greatly influences Gualinto as he proceeds further with his studies in school. By reading through the book, the reader can tell that Gualinto learns a lot in school about his Mexican heritage and how discriminative his class books can be on his ethnicity. Gualinto’s books describe Mexicans in a very disrespectful way that makes him have to justify himself in front of the class, to say that Mexicans are nothing like what the books compare him to. On the other hand, I do not feel the treaty really affects him because the treaty does not reach Texas, thus, it should have no effect in his life. However, there is a vast majority of Hispanic Heritage in Texas, and I feel that living in Southern Texas, Gualinto is
