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Estrella is not only an exploited child forced to grow up too soon, she is also an exploited female in a world run by men. It is a given that rich white men run the larger world of corporations and agribusiness, but even in the world of poor workers, men rule the roost, if poorly. Estrella knows the world of men and women through her mother Petra and Perfecto, "the man who was not her father" (3). The fact he has not married her mother shows a lack of commitment. He is also lost in his memo
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