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Short Answer
1. Consider what you know about Mexican American communities in the United States. In what states are these communities prominent? What is the history of immigration from Mexico to the US?
Teaching Suggestion: This question can help connect students with the historical and cultural contexts of the novel’s central family, the Hernandezes, and the family’s daughter, Gabi, the protagonist. Gabi’s parents journeyed from a small village in Mexico to the US in search of the “American Dream.” Information from the following or similar resources may aid in understanding the historical and cultural contexts of the family’s and other families’ journeys and their communities in the novel.
2. What are the stereotypical roles that different genders play historically in society, in the US, and elsewhere? Are these stereotypes still present in contemporary society, in the US, and elsewhere? How or how not? Why or why not?