A 12 years old girl with black hair‚ she was thin‚ very innocent‚ poor‚ aggressive and honest. She had a hard life and always felt guilty of the death of her little sister. Her purpose was to find her father in “El otro Lado”. She is the main character of this book and she will live the hardest times of her life trying to find her missing father. Adelina: A more less 17 years old girl‚ she works as a prostitute‚ she lives in Mexico. She run away from his house because she fall In love of her
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Across a Hundred Mountains Notes and Quotes Summary • Eleven-year-old Juana lives with her Amá and Apá in their little shack at the outskirts of their village in Mexico. • On the night of a flood‚ which enters their shack‚ her mother leaves Juana on top of the table holding the baby‚ Anita‚ to go look for her husband. • Juana falls asleep and loses hold of the baby‚ which drowns. Now in debt again to the wealthiest man in the village‚ Don Elías‚ who paid for the funeral‚ Apá decides
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Discussion Issues and Questions for‚ Across a Hundred Mountains‚ by Reyna Grande Author’s web site: http://www.reynagrande.com/ This novel is partially based on the author’s childhood of poverty and personal fears of abandonment when her parents left her and her siblings with grandparents to find work on “the other side.” As Grande has shared in interviews about the book‚ she wanted to tell the story of those who are left behind. The story illustrates the overlapping influences of women’s
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Across a hundred Mountains 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
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Because they are always dissatisfied and hungry for more they believe that others should be like that as well‚ “These civilized white men want us to be like them--always dissatisfied--getting a hill and wanting a mountain” (6). This mindset terrifies the narrator because it is that mentality that caused many men to become corrupt and jaded. Another thing that scares the author about the white man’s society is the way they treat their own men that simply do not fit
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Chicano/ Latino Short Essay Juana and Adelina’s Experience The novel Across a Hundred Mountains by Reyna Grande is a story about two young girls and their struggling journey to find happiness between two conflicting and distinct worlds: the United States and Mexico. Juana on one side wants to get to the United States‚ or “el otro lado” as mentioned in the novel‚ to find her father who abandoned her and her mother after leaving to find work in the US. On the other hand Adelina escapes from her
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Even Divergent Men Share Similarities Reyna Grande’s novel Across a hundred mountains presents the lives of many characters each with their own eccentricities and faults. Two characters in particular within Grande’s novel are found to be in stark contrast of one another. The fatherly figure Miguel and the oafish profiteer Don Elias. Miguel and Don Elias personify two sides of a moral coin; one man chooses dedication and family while the other values unfaithfulness and greed. To begin with‚ Miguel
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Baloisa Martinez Professor Doyen English B50 MW 8:00-10:00 October 6‚ 2014 Across A Hundred Mountains Living in a poverty stricken area doesn’t have a lot to offer when one has a family to care for. Juana a young girl and her family in the book “Across a Hundred Mountains” by Reyna Grande endure many heartaches and suffering throughout the novel due to death‚ departure‚ and numerous complications. Grande uses several literary devices in her book to demonstrate what Juana and her family experienced
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For years‚ the United States and France participated in a tug-of-war. Their victim? Haiti. Tracy Kidder‚ the author and narrator of the novel‚ travels to the impoverished country to observe and report the actions of American troops stationed across the land. During his time there‚ he stumbles upon Dr. Paul Farmer‚ who at the time‚ is defending the rights of his powerless Haitian patients against harsh military regulations. Fate brings them together once again‚ and Kidder ends up flying out to Haiti
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Mauricio Mechanic “He had a dignity and presence that spared him from humiliation and a genuine elegance that was defeated only by tarnished hands and nails that had been shattered by rough work” p. 284 Bore the rash of the banana company: possibly a sign of his downfall? Followed by the yellow butterflies Represent that he is peaceful but the yellow represents death “All my life they told me that butterflies at night bring bad luck” p.291 Because Meme loved him‚ when he dies she is forced
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