Character Analysis: Still Water Saints
Perla: The spiritual healer
The novel Still Water Saints written by Alex Espinoza takes place in a city called Agua Mansa. The character Perla Portollio is a women who owns her own Botanica Oshun. It’s a very popular place in agua mansa that a lot of people in her neighborhood visit for remedies, spiritual advice, and healing. She is described as a women who is “A santa, a divina, a medium, prophet and healer” (3). She’s well known for her work and is very good at what she does. There’s many people that see perla but one in particular is a sixteen year old girl Rosa. She’s a young lady who’s confused about her life and is very insecure about her body.
In the novel, Rosa is a girl who battling weight issues and criticism from her mother. Her mother likes to compare herself to Rosa a lot especially when it comes to appearance. She thinks she’s helping Rosa by taking her to perlas botanica to get tea to help her lose weight but in fact she’s making her less confident. Rosas mother and sister a very confident in themselves compared to Rosa who describes herself, “I look past those photos to the red pimples on my face, the dark and blotchy skin, and the rolls around my belly stretching out my shirt, my jeans, and the elastic band around my underwear. My body’s out of control.” Although when she sees herself as overweight, her sister views …show more content…
As she starts working there she meets a guy named Miguel Angel, he’s also an employee that works there as well. He opens Rosa’s mind to learn how to except herself for who she is. Around him she starts to feel wanted and pretty. Her mother is told that Rosa has a guy friend that she hangs out with every weekend that then leads to an argument. Rosa replies, “You’re thinking that just because I’m fat a guy can’t like me, right? That a guy like him can’t find me
The novel Still Water Saints written by Alex Espinoza takes place in a city called Agua Mansa. The character Perla Portollio is a women who owns her own Botanica Oshun. It’s a very popular place in agua mansa that a lot of people in her neighborhood visit for remedies, spiritual advice, and healing. She is described as a women who is “A santa, a divina, a medium, prophet and healer” (3). She’s well known for her work and is very good at what she does. There’s many people that see perla but one in particular is a sixteen year old girl Rosa. She’s a young lady who’s confused about her life and is very insecure about her body.
In the novel, Rosa is a girl who battling weight issues and criticism from her mother. Her mother likes to compare herself to Rosa a lot especially when it comes to appearance. She thinks she’s helping Rosa by taking her to perlas botanica to get tea to help her lose weight but in fact she’s making her less confident. Rosas mother and sister a very confident in themselves compared to Rosa who describes herself, “I look past those photos to the red pimples on my face, the dark and blotchy skin, and the rolls around my belly stretching out my shirt, my jeans, and the elastic band around my underwear. My body’s out of control.” Although when she sees herself as overweight, her sister views …show more content…
As she starts working there she meets a guy named Miguel Angel, he’s also an employee that works there as well. He opens Rosa’s mind to learn how to except herself for who she is. Around him she starts to feel wanted and pretty. Her mother is told that Rosa has a guy friend that she hangs out with every weekend that then leads to an argument. Rosa replies, “You’re thinking that just because I’m fat a guy can’t like me, right? That a guy like him can’t find me