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Coming of Age(She is getting married)

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"it was  the lords will i agreed but the words sounded hollow to my ears" Sung in my heart fondling my pearl I had ignored the cries of desolation , how could our loving all powerful father allow us to suffer

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Jaylen (losing faith, dictatorship) Chapter 2

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Jaylen (losing faith, dictatorship) Chapter 2

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"Our history now followed the plot of the Bible. We Dominicans had bee waiting for centuries for the arrival of our Lord Trujillo on the scene. It was pretty disgusting."

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Another quote that shows cognitive dissidence:

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Patria's stomach is in pain, and thinks her "faith" is shifting.

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Maria has to bury her diary because Hilda has been caught. Any evidence that might connect Minerva to Hilda has to be buried, so the police can't find it.

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Trujillo gives the school gifts to convince Lena that he loves her

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maria is talking about what she thinks about when she sees different things in her current society. she realizes the society she lives in is changing.

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A theme is cognitive dissidence.  Quote:

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She thought her sister was a good role model until she found out her sister would skip school

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she was talking about soul and her religion.

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In chapter 4, Patria is classified as a girl who questioned everything and everyone who she believed in.

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In the first paragraph of Chapter 3, you see Minerva gave Maria a diary for her to write her important stuff in it. Which shows Character Development because both Maria and Minerva never got along with each other, but now there slowly getting along.

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Page 57: "He spit these words out at her"
Page 49: "At night, he probably had nightmare after nightmare like I did, just thinking about what he'd done"
Page 28: "The four of us had to ask permission for everything"

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How do Minerva and Maria Teresa's characters change over the course of their chapters (ch. 2 &3)?

Do they mature? If so, how? If not, why not?

Do they start to view any aspects of life differently? If so, how? If not, why not?

What are their impressions of Trujillo at the beginning and the end of the chapter?

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Minerva:
-Had to asked permission from papa to do things, and always had to go to school

-Was told about the president who was power hungry for power and killed every higher rank that above him = Leads her to believe that he might regret it

Maria:
-Preparing for her first Communion
-Talking to her diary (Minerva got her that)

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Chapter 2 Minerva: At the beginning of the chapter, Minerva is twelve and is seen as a favorite to her father because of how she was treated by him. Minerva's father agrees to let Minerva and her two sisters go to school. At the school, met a girl named Sinita who tells her about her life story and the "Secret of Trujillo". Other events that happened during her time at school was Minerva entering her puberty, Lina became a lover for Trujillo, and Trujillo came to see the play and disrespected Sinita.
Chapter 3 Mari`a Teresa: Throughout the chapter, we see different instances where Maria Teresa uses Minerva's advice. During the chapter, Maria Teresa wrote about certain events in her Diary or her "little book" which is one piece of advice Minerva gave her. Based on what she writes down in her diary, we can see that she is considerate and loves her family. Maria Teresa started noticing changes in her sister's behavior.

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Maria thinks that she now has a soul because of her diary.

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This is when she figures out whats been gong on with Minerva