Question: What qualities, conditions, or circumstances create the need to sacrifice with a family? Many people can agree with me when I say that family almost always comes first. When one of the family members is need family is always that support that helps you even if you deserved what ever happened. Sacrificing for a better tomorrow is what families all over the world do every single day. In the book Rain of Gold, Guadalupe's family is very scared of living in the only place they've known their whole lives; Lluvia de Oro, Mexico. Times are getting rough for the family and now since Don Victor came back into the picture Guadalupe is tired of being the rock of this family. The food is very scarce and the war is getting worse they must do something about this. "One, we wait out the war here in the canyon, hoping that the bandits don't kill us; or two, we go to the United States and wait out the war there." (p.g 171) They're two choices are very common in what we still deal with today. It's so hard to leave the place where you grew up but in this case they must sacrifice in order to stay alive. It's not about what qualities, conditions, or circumstances makes a family sacrifice, but mostly it is the well being of your family no matter what needs to be done. If the family decides to go to the United States, just like Munoz they would be not just leaving their name at the border, but leaving they're hearts at the border.
Question:What is the value of family?
The value of family is recognized and felt differently in everybody. To some people their families mean the world to them, others can't stand them. Some people grow up as orphans and never get to really feel or see what a family is all about. In the book Rain of Gold, Its not easy at all for Lupe to accept her father as her dad. This man that's supposed to be her father comes in to her life all of a sudden to make decisions and change her moms world. he's a stranger. He doesn't belong in the family picture. "No!, you left us! You have no right to tell me what to do!" (p.g 180) Lupe resents her father because he wasn't there to help the family to provide and sustain his family like a man. Now that she's older and doesn't need much of him he decides to be a father. She doesn't feel like she should listen to this man who impregnated her mother a long time ago. As a girl who grew up without my biological father for a while, I completely understand her. I never got to live with my real dad but if he ever wanted to come into my life, honestly, I would feel like its too late. He already lost a lot of special moments in my life. I'm grown, my values and beliefs are already programmed into me. What do I need him for? The value of my family means a lot to me, but only to those who were in my childhood and showed that they were worth it.
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I see the connections you made with the novel, and the text of "Leave Your Name at the Border." The ending was a good connection to the novel and your point of view. I can really relate to the topic because my family had to make a choice of living in the Philippines under the crucial government, or they can have that hope of chasing their "American Dream" and move to the United States, which is similar to Dona Guadalupe's family's decision.
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