Pg. 58- pg. 64
Born Bad
The characters in this chapter include Esperanza, Rachel, Lucy, and Aunt Lupe. In this chapter Esperanza talks about how she was born on an evil day and that she was “born bad”. She blames herself killing her Aunt. Pg. 58 “For ourselves and for each other…because of what we did to Aunt Lupe. Aunt Lupe always encouraged Esperanza’s writing and for her to continue. She explains how her Aunt Lupe was a swimmer and pretty and good to look at. But that was just in the photographs. Then things changed after Aunt Lupe got “sick”, her legs and arms then became limp. Pg. 59, “It could be true she didn’t dive right one day and hurt her spine”. Esperanza then says diseases have no eyes, they pick whoever they want, and it’s a random choice. The Rachel, Lucy and Esperanza are playing a game similar to charades, and they imitate many people in the town. They then decided to imitate Aunt Lupe, throwing their heads back and having their arms and legs being useless, dangling like the dead. The guilt that was shown in the beginning of the chapter leads back to this. Shortly after they imitated her, she then died. The figurative language in the chapter is on pg. 58 " the bones gone limp as worms".
Born Bad
The characters in this chapter include Esperanza, Rachel, Lucy, and Aunt Lupe. In this chapter Esperanza talks about how she was born on an evil day and that she was “born bad”. She blames herself killing her Aunt. Pg. 58 “For ourselves and for each other…because of what we did to Aunt Lupe. Aunt Lupe always encouraged Esperanza’s writing and for her to continue. She explains how her Aunt Lupe was a swimmer and pretty and good to look at. But that was just in the photographs. Then things changed after Aunt Lupe got “sick”, her legs and arms then became limp. Pg. 59, “It could be true she didn’t dive right one day and hurt her spine”. Esperanza then says diseases have no eyes, they pick whoever they want, and it’s a random choice. The Rachel, Lucy and Esperanza are playing a game similar to charades, and they imitate many people in the town. They then decided to imitate Aunt Lupe, throwing their heads back and having their arms and legs being useless, dangling like the dead. The guilt that was shown in the beginning of the chapter leads back to this. Shortly after they imitated her, she then died. The figurative language in the chapter is on pg. 58 " the bones gone limp as worms".
How do you think Aunt Lupe got "sick"?
6 comments:
I think Aunt Lupe got sick by having cancer. Maybe somebody from her family previously had cancer and they passed it down to Aunt Lupe by genes.
Amanda Clucas
Esperanza said that diseases dont have eyes and they pick a person without even seeing because Aunt Lupe was always active and she never really did anything that could get her sick.
Alisa
I think she got sick from cancer and there was nothing she could do to stop it. Or maybe it was just from the fact that she got unlucky and the sickness just happened to hit her.-Chris Hollovary
Aunt lupe got the disease cause esperanza says that seh was picked randomly for this disease. I think it had to do with her bad eyes-Mitch Bear
She fell in the pool and broke her spine.
Armando farinacci
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