Question~ At this point you have become familiar with the multiple voices that are telling the story. Which of the voices speaks to you personally and why? (Put more simply, which is your favorite?)Fell free to reference or quote from any chapter, not just 7. I think that the sister that I connect to the most is Maria Teresa because, of her childish look at things in some parts of the book. For example, all her chapters are diary entrees and, how she is wondering when she will meet her future husband. I had a little diary when I younger. I didn't write in it a lot in it though, but I would draw in it. When she drew the clothes that she and her sisters brought and the "pretty gold ring with an opal, my birthstone, set inside four cornerstone pearls." (Alvarez 128). The only things that I would draw in my diary was flowers, hearts and badly drawn pictures of my family.
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Question~ 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. Yes I have. There was a situation where I wanted to go to the mall with my friend to hang out but, my parents didn't let me go just because it was a guy. It kind of reminds me of when Minerva was hanging out with Lio and her parents found out who he was and asked her to stop hanging out with him because he was a communist. I felt so mad at my parents for not letting me go just because it was going to be just the two of us walking around the mall because our friend couldn't make it.
Question: Minerva says, "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). What does Minerva mean by this? I think that what Minerva means by this is that, while she was living with her parents, she didn't have any freedom or say on what she could or couldn't do. She had to listen to her parents and not talk back. Now that they are going to the catholic school, they think they will be more free to do what they want, but they were wrong and the school was just like there parents but with more people.
Question: Why is Dede reluctant to speak with the reporter? I feel as though Dedé is reluctant to talk to the reporter because she is afraid that the reporter knows about her sisters death. She feels as though ever since her three sisters have died, her life and home have been open for any reporter to come ask the only sister that survived, what happened. Reporter might ask her some questions about how they died.
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