What's a hero? A hero is define as "one that is much admired or shows great
courage" by the Merriam Webster's Notebook Dictionary. A hero can also be define
as what Benito Pablo Juarez is to Mexico. Benito was born in a small village in
Oaxaca called San Pablo Guelatao on March 21, 1806 in a two roomed cottage with
floors of dirt. Benito was born to Marcelino Juarez and Grigida Garcia two catholic
Zapotec indians. Benito had two older sisters one named Maria and the other one
Benito's parent's died only a couple of months apart from each other, three
years after Benito's birth. When Benito's parent's died he and his sister's went to live
with there grandparent's, Pedro Juarez and Justa Lopez. At the age eleven Benito's
grandparent's died his sisters were older and had already gotten married. After that
happend Benito had to move with his uncle Matias Juarez.
Benito like many Zapotec indiants didn't speak spanish, he only spoke his native
language. Matias tought Benito every thing he knew about the spanish language, but
Benito wanted to learn more about it and about the world. The only way that Benito
was going to be able to know more about the world and how to speak spanish was
by going to the city of Oaxaca. Or by going to the Catholic Fathers, but Benito did not
want to become a priest. One day when Benito was taking care of the sheep, he found
out that there were some men that had come from the city of Oaxaca to buy some
mules. As the men were walking down the road to get to the city of Oaxaca. Benito
saw them, and decided to ask them to tell him a story about the city of Oaxaca. Wile
the men were entertaining Benito with there stories about the city Oaxaca one of the
men stole one of his sheep. A few minutes after the men left to the city of Oaxaca,
Benito counted his sheep again. To see that one of them was missing, Benito does not
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