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This picture relates to the story, by showing us how how the reader is looking through the narrator's life.

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The point of view in the story is first person, because the narrator uses words like "My Mother", "I would", "I sit", and "I am". Through the first person point of view we get to understand the narrator's thoughts and feelings towards the things that she is reminiscing on.

In the text she says, "I know that she’s right. I knew it even then. As you fall, there is time to think. Curled as I was, against her stomach, I was not startled by the cries of the crowd or the looming faces. The wind roared and beat its hot breath at our back, the flames whistled. I slowly wondered what would happen if we missed the circle or bounced out of it" - She tells us her emotion of how shes feeling, due to the first person point of view.

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This image connects to the story, because it shows the courage of having to balance and the courage of mental being able to be stable. 

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The theme of the story is courage, because in the story the narrator describes the concept of courage, emphasizing both the mental strength needed to face and overcome tragedy and the mother's physical bravery in saving her daughter from a trapeze mishap.

"I was still embarrassed as we flew out the window, toward earth, me in her lap, her toes pointed as we skimmed toward the painted target of the fire fighter’s net.

I know that she’s right. I knew it even then. As you fall, there is time to think. Curled as I was, against her stomach, I was not startled by the cries of the crowd or the looming faces" This shows how her mother was strong through physical courage and she was strong through mental courage.

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The picture shows a mother and daughter bonding together that goes with the narrator who likes to hear about her mother's past life.

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The narrator shows us what she is doing by using indict characterization. She shows us the character as a person that looks up to her mother a lot.

The evidence in the story which says that, "My mother once said that I’d be amazed at how many things a person can do within the act of falling. Perhaps, at the time, she was teaching me to dive off a board at the town pool, for I associated the idea with midair somersaults. But I also think she meant that even in that awful doomed second one could think, for she certainly did."

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This image connects to the story, because she felt in peace and claimed when against her mother just like her the room is claimed in the picture. 

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The speed/pacing of the story changes a lot based on the part of the story.

"I know that she’s right. I knew it even then. As you fall, there is time to think. Curled as I was, against her stomach, I was not startled by the cries of the crowd or the looming faces" - Doing this part of the story the writer uses a comma to cause the reader to pause. This shows the effect of an important part that the author wants the reader to slow down when reading.

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The picture connects to the story by the girl representing Camino and the dark sad beach respecting how she escaped to feel somewhat of comfort.  

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Camino characterizes a girl who seeks solitude and escapes reality by going to the beach with her deceased father. She is sad and nonchalant, but wants everything to be normal. Her mother, Tia, wants her to stay home from school and keep her phone calls private to protect her.

This is support by statements in the book which are, "The world fades when you are under, & the ocean murmurs stay stay stay." and "It's been seventy-two hours, & I go to school on Monday even though Tia tells me I should stay home. I want normal. But my teachers do not ask for homework, do not ask me questions."

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This picture connects to the story by showing a eye that almost is going to cry but isn't. Just how Camino is feeling in the story 

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Camino is depicted from her first person point of view, trying to remain calm and emotionless amidst the news and neighbor's concerns. She focuses on her father's life without showing any emotion, despite the suffocating eyes that seem to expect her to tear herself out of her skin. Camino's point of view is that she is trying to feel the pain and wonder why she doesn't feel any pain. Camino's mood is no pain, but she is trying to feel the pain. We can see this all through Camino's point of view, because she tells us how she's feeling and her emotions.

This is supported in the text with these statements, ""I try not to suffocate under all the eyes that seem to be expecting me to tear myself out of my skin" and "I lift my mouth to the cigar. inhale. hold the smoke hard in my lungs until the pain squeezes sharp in my chest"

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This picture related to the story, because it shows a girl peaceful underwater just how Camino was feeling. 

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This figurative language in the story, "My arms are tired, my joints screaming. I want to swim until I become this water. The world fades when you are under, &the ocean murmurs stay stay stay. I swim out & come back, out & come back. My lungs on fire. My arms shaking from the strain. I could stop moving. I could just go."

The figurative language that she is using shows us how much when she is swimming she forgets about what's going on in real life. Her swimming is almost just like therapy for her.

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The problem/causes of the war between Palestine and Israel is not religion it's occupation

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Muslims and Jews would babysit each other's kids and they would fellowship together during holidays

Palestinians don't hate Jews they hate occupies. They would hate anybody that would kill and steal their land.

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The Jewish Rabbi says, "We have no problem. The problem here is not the religion. The problem is occupation, killing, take away the land from people. This is the problem. The Palestinians don't hate Jews. Their hate occupies. No difference if it's a Jew, if it's a French, if it's English, no difference. The same hate they will have if the Japanese will come into the Holy Land and take it over. "

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This picture help to understand the figurative language by showing the girl that repents Camino looking at the sky and feeling sad, like how she feels about her dad. 

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An example of figurative language in the story is, "It was hard to notice he had anything missing at all except when he was the one missing, & then it was like day were deflated like when his flight rose into the sky he took all the air on earth with him"

The figurative language helps us to understand how important Camino's father was to her. When she says that, "when his flight rose into the sky he took all the earth with him" it help to better understand that she felt like there was no belonging for her to live anymore.

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This picture better helps to understand the connection of Camino and her father and how she lost it. The hands barely touching can be repented of her and her dad letting go after his death mentally. 

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The theme of the story is the value of a valuable person. In Camino's life her dad was a very valuable person to her you can she this by her saying, "It was hard to notice he had anything missing at all except when he was the one missing, & then it was like day were deflated like when his flight rose into the sky he took all the air on earth with him". This show that she doesn't feel like she can't life or go through life without him.

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This show how this is Camino feeling since she may not be able to attend anymore, because she won't have the funds no more. 

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The conflict in the story is Camino probably not being able to go to her private school anymore, since her father has passed away. In the story it is written, " I am pretending Papi being dead does not change anything, Even as I sit at a desk I know I may not return to in the fall". This shows how she is scared that she will not be able to attend anymore.