5Comments
- Esmeralda gets a boyfriend and her mom is taking it quite well
- Esmeralda's opinions are too strong.
- Her family is suddenly more religious
- Esmeralda misses the way her family and, things in general used to be.
- Esmeralda's parents gives her different sets of instructions and on different motives.
4Questions
- Is this Esmeralda's first encounter with a boy?
- Why did Esmeralda start crying after her series of questions?
- Why would she think that her mom would leave her in puerto rico to go to New York?
- Why did Esmeralda's mom decide to move and not tell her?
3Vocabulary
- Blared: To sound loudly and stridently
- Evangelicals: Of, relating to, or in accordance with the Christian gospel, especially one of the four gospel books of the New Testament.
- relinquishing: To retire from; give up or abandon.
2Literary Devices
- Onomatopoeia: Whizz
- Metaphor: "not to repeat those bad words, or you'll get a mouth full of hot peppers"
1Summarizing Sentence
- This chapter is about Esmeralda's thoughts and feelings of where the family stood and her desires of how she wished things were.