Chapter eight was a very interesting chapter because, Patria becomes pregnant again yet also, her son shows up drunk on new years while he's only 17 years old. Due, to Minerva traveling she asks Patria to watch her baby, little do they know that the baby is their cover story. At the end they make bombs in Patria and Pedrito's home, stockpiling ammunition and weapons, and planning their attack.
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Is the multiple voice technique effective as a storytelling device for this novel? Why or why not? Feel free to reference or quote from any chapter, not just chapter 7.
In my opinion the multiple voices telling the story is affecting the story because, each chapter tells a diffrent point of veiw so I cant really tell who is talking unless, I go back to the beginning. For example chapter four is Patria talking afterwards, she doesn't talk until chapter eight. Although on the other hand, it leaves us wander the rest of her story while we read the other ones. Explain the symbolism of the multiple rain storms in this chapter.
Have you ever been in a situation where your friend (romantic or platonic) causes stress between you and your family members? Referencing moments in the novel that remind you of your own experience, tell that story.
Chapter three is about María Teresa's diary that she had written in. At the end of the chapter she had given up her 'little book' (the diary) for a little while, only because they had to bury it. All so in the chapter Maria started calling her cousin Berto cute, I mean okay yeah she is a human that finds people cute but, her own cousin? Okay, she writes about how Patria had had her baby yet the baby was dead. Lastly, she talked about going to the cemetery to bury the baby too okay that was quite sad.Yeah, I have had struggles to be what i want to be yet everyone seems to think they can control what i become when I grow up. Some people need to listen when i say they cant tell me what i can and cant do. Like Patria, her parents want her to be a nun she doesn't want to be. She falls in love with a guy and had a miscarriage, that sucks. But, she isnt letting her parents run her life. Wish I could do that too yet my family has what they call, 'an image' they want me to be yet, it will never happen. i run my life they dont run it for me. So yeah I know the struggle of wanting to be yourself while, everyone wants you to be something else.
So, when Minerva Said "And that's how I got free. I don't mean just going to sleepaway school on a train with a trunkful of new things. I mean in my head after I got to Inmaculada and met Sinita and saw what happened to Lina and realized that I'd just left a small cage to go into a bigger one, the size of our whole country" (Alvarez, 13). She ment she was free because she was able to leave her home where there had been so many rules and go to a place where she had never been before. Although she just went because her sister did wich left Dede at home to help their dad. Minrva thought she was free due to the fact she left her country where, their was bad things going on. In my opinion the leader the called " Trujillo" had the girls sent to that school somehow, just to kill them.
During chapter one, I don't believe that Dede was to reluctant to talk to the reporter about her and her sisters. I think she was more scared of talking about them, due to it bringing up memories that she misses. When the American reporter called, that's when I think she became more reluctant due to the fact that Dede knows nothing about the reporter. Dede might think that it's one of the people who knew who killed her sisters. She may just be reluctant to talk to the woman due to the fact that the woman is from America so, she doesn't know if the woman will also try to kill her as well.
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