When Sonia was nine years old, her father passed away. The whole family broken down. “I was heading straight home after school that day because Papi had stayed home sick from work… But when Anna opened the door, something was terribly wrong… Something had shaken her deeply. She wouldn’t explain”(Sotomayor 51). They did not know how to say it to Sonia the way a child would understand. Anna chose to not explain to protect Sonia from being shaken like she is.
Sonia