and Victoriano was still young. When Lupe and her family were still living in the box canyon. The Mexican Revolution was going on at this time and it was a scary and hard time for a lot of families in Mexico. If the soldiers were going up to box canyon, Dona Guadalupe would hide her daughters in the manure to prevent the soldiers from raping and killing her children. This idea of hiding her daughters in manure took much wits to come up with, it saved her daughter lives.Importance of traditions was what kept these families going day to day. A Mexican tradition is Cinco de Mayo and it is celebrated on May 5th in the United States. Senor Gonzales was a man in the community of Santa Ana and was one of the officials in the Cinco de Mayo parade. Carlota and two of her girlfriends entered the contest to be the queen of the pride. Lupe did not enter the contest. Senor Gonzales came by their house to talk to Lupe and her parents. Lupe was offered the position of being the queen of the parade. This is what Senor Gonzales said to Lupe with her parent's present:"And this year, for the first time we want to have a big celebration with a parade and extend it past the barrio in the americano part of town so we can include the gringos in our celebrationyou see, many of our people who came here during the Revolution, as did your own family are beginning to think that maybe this country (U.S.) is going to be our permanent home. So that's why we want to include the gringos and teach them of our Mexican traditions so we don't lose our culture"(p. 318).As stated above, they wanted to teach the gringos and teach them of the Mexican traditions so they don't lose their culture. This was a celebration that would help preserve the culture of the mejicanos and teach others the purpose of the celebration of Cinco de Mayo.Respect for life, work, education/learning was a moral that everyone learned. If you could not have respect for life, work, educa...
