Some ideas:
- Progress has many negative effects on Rigoberta Menchu and the Guatemalan people.
- Rigoberta Menchu has written her autobiography as a means of bringing a better life to her people.
- A strong work ethic is an important part of the triumph of the Guatemalan people in the novel.
- Rigoberta Menchu struggles with traditions in this novel; sometimes clinging to them and sometimes eschewing them.
Check out the analysis of this novel right here on eNotes for some other ideas that you may find more interesting to write about.