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"She just don't understand that nobody gonna give me a job unless it's something like McDonald's"

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"She just don't understand that nobody gonna give me a job unless it's something like McDonald's"

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She seems like she's having a really hard time even through her dream-like state.

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We've been through a lot of BS but I still love you guys

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Super-tia/mom incoming. While I unintentionally hurt your feelings

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"I wasn't even planning it but there we were me and Caty hanging on the roof aiming water balloons at passing cars and I never miss".

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"I wasn't even planning it but there we were me and Caty hanging on the roof aiming water balloons at passing cars and I never miss".

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Gorda might not be very ambitious to move out of her mom's apt.

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Puerto Plata, the third largest city in Dominican Republic. This is where Olivia first met Manolo.

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I'm a mother and sister and a daughter and a tia and fixer-upper

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This is a scene from her death where she jumps off at the end of her dance and dies on stage.

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In the movie, her suicide carried a weird form of elegance with it as she was dressed to be a white swan representing the truest form of purity and innocence. Her character reminds me a lot of Olivia because of how Olivia writes about jumping off the fire escape. Both characters seem to experience/daydream about some kind of angel-like and almost fairytale like exit from the world.

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I feel Gorda is the glue for the family.

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It kind of sucks that she didn't tell Manolo about her uncertainty of paternity. 

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In the movie Black swan, the main actress basically drives herself insane and to hallucinations based on her hyper obsession with being perfect for the play.

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This reminds me of Olivia because her own mind has created this illness for herself in which she cant wake up from.

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Glad you made it to see your mom, wish you came earlier though

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Glad you made it to see your mom, wish you came earlier though

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Victor

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The chapter is given in a third person point of view. Mostly to see how other character's view in this chapter and to give a description of his personality

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Olivia

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First person (pg 25 & 46) in italics and Third person (pg 46) paragraph after italics

In terms of first person, I think Angie Cruz delivers an almost dream-like narration from Olivia.  As if she were to be communicating in her sleep with the reader.  It shows that she's aware of her surroundings but she's not entirely conscious.  As if she were in between worlds.

It also works as an analyzation of the people around her and how Olivia really feels about them.

I think the third person was used to give insight on Olivia's past and who her character is.  This point of view allows to create a window for the reader and adapts to Olivia's state.  Given that she's mainly unconscious it seems that Cruz decided she isn't necessarily able to tell her story herself to the readers.

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She is currently in a "coma" where she is asleep yet can feel and hear everything so she claims. She is not close with her daughter Soledad at all and has always been disconnected from her. She did sex work and never knew for sure if Soledad was a pregnancy result of that. She lied about whose baby it was and lead her husband at the time to think it was his to escape her situation.

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Flaca

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1st Person: We believe it's used because we are able to get more personal with Flaca and understand her thought process and why she feels the way she feels towards Soledad as well as Tia Olivia. We get to learn that she doesn't like to be compared to Soledad as well as how different her language is and personality.

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She's kind of mean but mostly towards Soledad. It seems like she holds some kind of resentment towards her and her mother Gorda, who wants her to be more proper and spend less time on the streets. Flaca seems to be the type of person who doesn't want to be compared to other people or controlled and told what to do. This is the complete opposite to her relationship with her aunt Olivia, who she seems to open up more to and confide in.

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Gorda

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Third person.

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We know that Gorda is family oriented, cares about and worries for her little sister (Olivia), but also tends to be critical of Soledad.  Gorda believes that if Soledad showed up earlier, Olivia would have been fine.

Readers also learn that Gorda might be "stuck" financially. After Raful left, she has been crammed into one room in her mother's apartment which was only supposed to be temporary.

Gorda also seems to be emotional, we see her experience anxiety and anger. She also believes she has the ability to fix people's problems

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She is extremely suicidal. I think these feelings come from deep sadness about her disconnect with her child and her overall opinion and repulsion of her family. She feels uncomfortable in her skin, with her past, where she is in life and wants to escape.

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The language that this character utilizes is described as a "gift" from Soledad's point of view. She is able to speak more freely, utilizing a lot of curse words as well as talking like she really is from NY using words like "mad" and "bugging". You can tell she spends a lot of her time outside and around other kids of her age range. This probably is a big influence on her. She doesn't talk in a lot of Spanish, more so English. Maybe she doesn't embrace that part of culture like Gorda, her mother does.

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"Soledad always moves slow like a cloud".
"Maybe if she would have come home right away like Gorda asked her to, Olivia would have been fine"

We see both her concern and criticism in this paragraph.