The Impact of Migration in Reyna Grande’s Acrossa Hundred Mountains

Abstract

In her work Across the Hundred Mountains, Mexican author Reyna Grande explores the ramifications of migration on Mexican society. The story revolves around the hardships that the protagonist's family has had to endure after her father left Mexico for the United States. The situation of a family's lone male member also lends credence to a long-held fear of rejection. The struggles of the indigenous Mexicans in Guerrero, Mexico, are shown in Grande's novels. As a result of Mexico's deteriorating economic situation, the novel's indigenous Mexican characters flee to the United States in search of a better life. When the operation fails, the family left behind in Mexico is viewed as an abandoned family by society. In her story, Grande explores the plight of Mexican women who live in their homeland and are oppressed by powerful males. There is an attempt in this work to highlight the bad practices that occur in Mexican society, which reveals the sufferings of abandonment because male family members migrate. As a result, Grande exemplifies the novel's central theme of a fractured Mexican family perpetuated through a cycle of violence and torture.