The document discusses the novel "The Underdogs" by Mariano Azuela, which depicts the Mexican Revolution from the perspective of ordinary Mexicans affected by the civil unrest. The novel follows Demetrio Macias, a peasant farmer who joins Pancho Villa's revolutionary army after suffering under the federalists. It provides an accurate representation of the 1910 Mexican Revolution and the hardships faced by common people, referred to as "Los de Abajo" or "the underdogs." The author Mariano Azuela himself eventually abandoned the revolution and moved to the United States, similar to one of the characters in the novel.

1. Los de abajo The Underdogs By: Todd Beasley

2. Los de abajo- The Underdogs The Mexican Revolution had a tremendous impact on the men and women who suffered through this period of civil unrest . Mariano Azuela wrote The Underdogs , which is a short piece of fiction that represented the revolution. It shows the consequences that affected the lives of the generations of Mexicans who lived through the warring times.

3. Los de abajo- The Underdogs The book has a huge historical significance because it gives a description of the Mexican revolution from the perspective of people who were directly affected by and involved in the revolutionary process . The title of the novel in Spanish “Los de Abajo ‘ translates to mean those from or at the bottom .

4. Los de abajo- The Underdogs Azuela reflects back on Luis Cervantes on the first night of his joining the revolutionaries , that “Did not the sufferings of the underdogs , of the disinherited masses , move him to the core . the subjugated , the beaten and baffled.” The events in the novel are almost exact to the Mexican revolution of 1910.

5. Los de abajo- The Underdogs The main plot of the story is of a peasant farmer , Demetrio Macias who after having suffered at the hands of the federalists , decides to join Pancho Villa ‘s revolutionary army . A defector of the government army ,Luis Cervantes the elite and educated , joins Demetrio ‘s troop because of his support of the ideals he believed the revolutionaries accepted.

6. Los de abajo- The Underdogs Azuela , like Cervantes , abandoned the struggle and migrated to the United States after having worked along with PanchoVilla.