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The mothers husband controlled and abused her 

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The mothers husband controlled and abused her 

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Steve hugs his mom when she picks him up from the airport, he thinks of how "years ago my father had forbidden her to drive, though I supposed he could do little to prevent it now"(mia alvar 1).

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Steve thinks to himself, after watching his mother care for his abusive father, “His coming to New York for treatment…was something I’d have wired any sum to avoid” (Alva 6).

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Steve thinks to himself, after realizing what could have killed his father, "I must have known a drug so powerful could end his life" (Alvar 24).

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As Steve arrives to his parent's house, his mom greets him before Steve monologues about his father in his mind, thinking," And my mother had been a nurse before he banned her from working outside the house all together." (Mia Alvar, 1.)

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The Kid had to See his mom get minked on the face with a phone and get called bad names by the drunk ass dad

[Thats All I Got I Dont Know That Much]

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abuse causes others to have vengeance and seek revenge on the abuser  

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abuse causes others to have vengeance and seek revenge on the abuser  

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"I remembered how I used to climb that tree and sling a branch onto my shoulder, aiming sniper-style at the place in the house where my father might be standing. Another time, I stabbed a fallen twig into the grass and twisted it, imagining his blood." (26)

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At Steve's father's burial, Steve sees his mother cry, and feels guilty and thinking, "I would never leave her again. I'd bury the patches somewhere nobody would find them, so long as she could remain the mother I knew, not some stranger laughing in the dark." (Mia Alvar, 26.)

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"when he called my mother a whore or a foul little cunt who had ruined his life he sent me outside when he sized her by the hair"

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"now I can keep and eye on him while I work, or you and I can sit and eat together" (pg 8.) the mom sets up a baby monitor to help keep an eye on the dad so she can spend more time with the son and keep up with her needed work.

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After Stevens mother kills her husband, Steven thinks to himself, "Didn't I want him gone, hadn't I always? My mother was better off." (Mia Alvar, pg. 24.)

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"And my mother had been a nurse before he banned her from working outside the house altogether"

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when Steve's dad didn't let his mom pick up him from airport that was controlling he would hit her if she would this is also abuse

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Steve's emotional attachment to his mother 

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Steve's emotional attachment to his mother 

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"Nothing disturbed me more than the sight of her crying." (15)

"Her tears affected me the way they always had. I swore to stop them." (25)

"For the first time in all my years consoling her, that I might cry myself." (25-26)

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"Through all the melodramas that my family and I had seen over the years, the Bida and the Kontribida crossed their swords over a women, I never guessed she might be the one to watch." (27)

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"She had loved him once, but that love had been a small, fragile thing, easily crushed by neglect and betrayal." (Alva pg 21)

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  the author Mia alvar how people sadly deal with abuse and make them result to bad thing. 

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  the author Mia alvar how people sadly deal with abuse and make them result to bad thing. 

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''it was my mother's role in the family, not his, to suffer.'' his is coming from steven who is also effected by the abuse not just the mother which makes it even worse on the mom whose kids are effected. steven is self-aware of his mother's sad abuse and she has to endure it.

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" I would never leave her again. id bury the patches somewhere nobody would find them, so long as she could remain the mother i knew, not some stranger laughing in the dark"(26).

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When Steve reflects on his parents he realizes that "her saintliness was an idea I loved more than I had ever hated him," (Alvar, 26).

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Anak was reminded of a moment in his childhood where "[he] thought [his] mother had found a way to strike back: that [his father] was the one, this time, suffering and forced to beg" (Alvar, 11).

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steve thinks to himself, after watching his mother care for his abusive father, "his coming to new york for treatment... was something id have wired any sum to avoid."(alvar.6).

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Revenge can be liberating or social imprisoning

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Revenge can be liberating or social imprisoning

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When he was contemplating his relationship with his mom, he thought "Her saintliness was an idea I loved more than i ever hated him" (Alvar 26).

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when Seve was checking up on his mother, he initially though she was crying about his father, in this moment, he found out what was actually happening. "She certainly wasn't crying, in fact, she was laughing, a strange, sleepy laugh that dominoed through the sari sari. She reached along the counter and picked up the white square, Sucurol" (22)

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Steve thinks to himself, "So what? Didn't I want him gone, hadn't I always? My mother was better off," (Alvar 24) as he realizes his mother is the reason of his father's death.

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Power Dynamics can affect how people view and treat eachother.

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Power Dynamics can affect how people view and treat eachother.

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"During this shimmering nighttime transaction, he was the conquered one."

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abuse can make people do things that  they thought they would never do

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abuse can make people do things that  they thought they would never do

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steve thinks to himself, after realizing his mom could have killed his father "i must have known a drug so powerful could end his life" (alvar 24)

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"How had I forgotten? I'd drunk sodas from plastic sleeves up until the ae of twenty-five. And yet the liquid bag I handed over made me think not of my childhood but of some dark, alien version of the waste pouches and IV fluids I'd see at the hospital." (Alvar 10)

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Steve's Mom after she struck down her oppressor, She tells of her power and strength, "You Don’t  Know My Strength" (Alvar 27).

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"Any time a woman opened her mouth and I could imagine myself clapping a hand over it, pinning her to the bed, I knew that my father still breathed somewhere inside of me. I couldn’t risk repeating his life"(Alvar 13)

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Steve thinks to himself about the love he has for his mom, As his dad's casket is lowered into the ground. "Her saintliness was an idea I loved more than I ever hated him" (Alvar 26).

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The importance of distancing yourself from your parents

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The importance of distancing yourself from your parents

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At his father's funeral, the main character, Steve realizes how much he has relied on his mom. "For years there'd been no question of how much she leaned on me...it never dawned on me how much I'd leaned on her: to play her part, stick to the script."   He had been caught off-guard by his mom, who betrays his trust earlier in the story. (Alvar, 26)

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In '  the Kontrabida', Mia Alvar shows that Not everyone Is who they present themselves as  

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In '  the Kontrabida', Mia Alvar shows that Not everyone Is who they present themselves as  

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Steve wakes up in the middle of the night after hearing a weeping sound. Assuming its his mother crying he gets up ready to comfort her, but instead "she was laughing- a strange, sleepy laugh that dominoed through the sari-sari... she reached toward the wicket and came back with a fist-full of cash" (pg 22)

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Steve remembering what his father has done. "I knew that my father still breathed somewhere inside of me. I couldn't risk repeating his life." (Pg. 13)

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the morphine and sucarol patches are symbols in the book, the morphine is slowly just holding off the pain but it builds up in the moms pain due to constantly working, but the sucarol relives the pain from his dad and his mom, its stronger and it solved a bigger problem.

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she heaved the dirt into the plot and made noise, almost a grunt. you don't know my strength! through all the melodramas that my family and i had seen over the years, in which the bida and the kontrabida crossed their swords over a woman, i never guessed that she might be one to watch.

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"my mother was pressing a washcloth to his forehead. You're a CEO, not a slave".

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Steve recalls all of the horrible things his dad did," when he struck her face with the underside of our telephone until she wept and begged'' page 8

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Steve realizes that his father's death was not and accident " i opened the drawer where we'd stored the yellow box. six succorol patches left ,of the thirty id brought 5 days had had passed 4 since id arrived , four since id given them to her .''(22)

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''i ran out to the yard not to escape him, but because i knew he'd punish her for every secondi was there

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In the Kontra Bida Steve finds out that his mom murdered his dad" He thinks maybe I never guessed that she might be the one to watch. Page 27