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"... it appeared as if the mountains pulled away from each other, like a curtain opening on a stage, revealing the San Joaquin Valley beyond." ( page 94)

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They looked like monstous liones paws.(94)

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"...fields and fields of dark green cotton plants became a sea of milk white puffs." (pg. 94)

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"What's the matter, silver spoon stuck in your mouth?" (pg 97)

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TEARS BURTS FROM HER FACE AS IF SOMEONE HAD squeezed A OVERRIPE ORANGE PG 92

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" They looked like monstrous lions' paws resting at the edge of the ridge." (94)

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"Her heart felt so big and hurt so much that it crowded out her voice." (28)

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"Tio Luis's face hardened like a rock..." (pg.32)

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"Her Porcelain face looked wistfully at Esperanza with enormous eyes." (28)

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Tuo luos face hardened loke aa rock

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"She felt sick at the thought of Mama marrying him."pg 38

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''She fell to her knees and sank into a dark hole of despair and dis belifef.

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"...everyone said she would someday look just like her beautiful mother."( pg.11)

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"Papa's eyes were there too, shaped like fat, brown almonds." pg. 11

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"She sank into a dark hole of despair and disbelief" (pg 22)

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as if it had been waiting to shake its hand

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" Gazing up at him and watching his eyes dance with love"(pg1)

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Roxton

" the tool was edged like a razor." (4)

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"... she knew the tool was edged like a razor." (4)

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"You can only feel the earth's heartbeat when you are still and quiet."

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"You can only feel the earth's heartbeat when you are still and quiet."

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our land is alive pg 1

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"The rich person is richer when poor, than the poor person when he becomes rich"

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"Esperanza was almost as tall as Mama..."(pg.11

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"She felt as if she were in somebody else's body..."pg. 25

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"She pressed closer to the ground, until her body was breathing with the earth's." (3)

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"The short blade was curved like a scythe, its fat wooden handle fitting snugly in her palm.(4)

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"Big pearls of blood pulsed from the tip of her thumb..." pg. 8

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"Wait a little longer and the fruit will fall in your hand" page 2

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"The rich person is richer when he becomes poor, than the poor person when he becomes rich"

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"Then, like a caterpillar, she slowly inched flat next to him, their faces looking at each other." (page 2)

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"Did you know when you lie down on land, you can feel it breathe? [1]

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"wait a little longer and the fruit will fall in your hand"...{2}

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Roxton

"Not wanting to forget the feel of the heart of the valley."

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"That you can hear it's heart beating" (pg1)

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"She pressed closer to the ground, until her body was breathing with the earth's" (pg 3)

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"It gives us grapes and then they welcome us" (pg 1)

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"You can only feel the earth's heartbeat when you are still and quiet." pg. 2

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You! above me! why did you copy me!? Even the color is the same! "Did you know that when you lie down on the land, you can feel it breathe? That you can feel its heart beating?" (pg. 1)

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"This whole valley breathes and lives," (1)

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"The rich person is richer when he becomes poor, than the poor person when he becomes rich."

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"He who falls today may rise tomorrow."

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a traditional saying or phrase that expresses a perceived truth and gives practical advice

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an exaggeration that cannot possibly be true

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giving humanlike qualities to nonhuman objects

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comparing two unlike things by saying one is the other

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comparing two unlike things using "like" or "as"

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"our land is alive, Esparanza," (pg 1)

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It had taken every day of three weeks to put the harvest to bed. (8)

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When the grapes delivered their harvest, she always turned another year. (6)

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"The babies, Lupe and Pepe, a girl and a boy, were dark-eyed cherubs, with thick mops of black hair." pg. 88