In Across a Hundred Mountains Adelina started her journey to the other side. She had gone to the train station where she sold quesadillas with Dona Martina. When she sat down she noticed that in front of her there was a man and a young girl talking about leaving to the other side. The girl asked her dad what did they need to do in order to get there, thats when Juana heard that you needed to catch a train to Tijuana then find a good coyote to take you to the other side. Juana saved up from what Dona Martina payed her. After Juana's mom was up in jail for killing Don Ellias, Juana decided to take her trip to the United States to go find her dad. Juana went to the train station and bought her ticket to Cuernavaca …show more content…
In front of Juana was a man and next to her was a woman and a boy sitting on her lap. Juana over heard the man and noticed that he was going to the other side also. On the way the boy next to her seemed like he was going to sleep and sometimes will put his head over Juana's shoulder. When she turned around the boys head was on the woman's chest she kept on repeating that they were almost there. The boy was dead, the man in front of Juana told the woman not to make it obvious because they wouldn't care about the situation and just leave her behind. Once they arrived Juana helped the woman get off the train, she noticed the expression in the woman's face like if she didn't know where to go. Juana asked her if she was lost, the woman said she has family there but they didn't know that she was on her way. Even though Juana didn't have a lot of money she bought the woman a ticket back and bought herself a ticket to tijuana. She was hungry so she was …show more content…
She stayed and slept there that night. She cought her train early the next day. Once she arrived to Tijuana she didn't know where to go. She was wondering around and fell asleep in a bench, when she woke up she heard footsteps getting cloer and closer saying catch that thief. Juana began to run, they cought up to her and arrested her thinking that she stold a wallet. Juana was put in jail, thats where she met adelina, adelina was a prostitute. Adelina and Juana started to talk, and told her that she had a boyfriend named Carlos who made her become a prostitute in order for them to have money. Once they got out of jail Juana decided to go with Adelina. At first she just went there to live with her but she noticed that she needed money so she decided to become a prostitute also. Her first day many people wanted her because she was a virgin. Juana began to like it. She and Adelina became good friends she also became friends with Veronica , but not like how she was with Adelina. One day adelina's boyfriend hit her and Juana didn't think that was right, Juana told adelina to run away with her and to go to the other side. Adelina agreed with her, the only problem was that adelina had