ESCAPE by Bill Davis https://padlet.com/6554wvcrep/hd57wa9venwi en-us 2015-11-19 18:33:18 UTC 2016-01-09 07:32:14 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.storage.googleapis.com/portrait/smiley.jpg “She was that kind of mother: who makes you doubt yourself, who would wipe you out if you let her” (Diaz 56).  https://padlet.com/6554wvcrep/hd57wa9venwi/wish/82467819 possible relation to what she is escaping from

]]> 2015-11-19 18:37:24 UTC https://padlet.com/6554wvcrep/hd57wa9venwi/wish/82467819 "I guess my mother thought it would be harder for me to run away from an Island..." (70) https://padlet.com/6554wvcrep/hd57wa9venwi/wish/82468003 2015-11-19 18:37:56 UTC https://padlet.com/6554wvcrep/hd57wa9venwi/wish/82468003 https://padlet.com/6554wvcrep/hd57wa9venwi/wish/82468129 2015-11-19 18:38:14 UTC https://padlet.com/6554wvcrep/hd57wa9venwi/wish/82468129 If I had to put it to words I'd say what she wanted, more than anything, was what she's always wanted throughout her Lost Childhood: to escape. (P80) https://padlet.com/6554wvcrep/hd57wa9venwi/wish/82468132 2015-11-19 18:38:14 UTC https://padlet.com/6554wvcrep/hd57wa9venwi/wish/82468132 “[Belicia], like her yet to be born daughter, would come to exhibit a particularly Jersey malaise—the inextinguishable longing for elsewheres.” https://padlet.com/6554wvcrep/hd57wa9venwi/wish/82468260 pg.77

]]> 2015-11-19 18:38:37 UTC https://padlet.com/6554wvcrep/hd57wa9venwi/wish/82468260 "all my favorite books were about runaways..." (57).  https://padlet.com/6554wvcrep/hd57wa9venwi/wish/82468276 2015-11-19 18:38:40 UTC https://padlet.com/6554wvcrep/hd57wa9venwi/wish/82468276 "Beli, who’d been waiting for something exactly like her body her whole life, was sent over the moon by what she now knew. By the undeniable concreteness of her desirability which was, in its own way, Power." https://padlet.com/6554wvcrep/hd57wa9venwi/wish/82468422 Her body became a ticket to escape her miserable life. pg. 93

]]> 2015-11-19 18:39:02 UTC https://padlet.com/6554wvcrep/hd57wa9venwi/wish/82468422 What exactly it was she wanted was never clear either; pg 79 https://padlet.com/6554wvcrep/hd57wa9venwi/wish/82468883 2015-11-19 18:40:19 UTC https://padlet.com/6554wvcrep/hd57wa9venwi/wish/82468883 But where she wanted to escape to she could not tell you. (P80) https://padlet.com/6554wvcrep/hd57wa9venwi/wish/82468955 2015-11-19 18:40:32 UTC https://padlet.com/6554wvcrep/hd57wa9venwi/wish/82468955 "there weren't any Houdini holes in that Patano Curtain" (Diaz 80) https://padlet.com/6554wvcrep/hd57wa9venwi/wish/82469047 Platano Curtain refers to Iron Curtain in Europe, and inescapability

]]> 2015-11-19 18:40:47 UTC https://padlet.com/6554wvcrep/hd57wa9venwi/wish/82469047 "Of course I cried; I was eight and I had already planned that Tomoko and her family would adopt me" (Diaz 56). https://padlet.com/6554wvcrep/hd57wa9venwi/wish/82471076 2015-11-19 18:45:42 UTC https://padlet.com/6554wvcrep/hd57wa9venwi/wish/82471076 "It was like the stupidest thing I ever did. I was miserable. And so bored. But of course I wouldn't admit it. I had run away, so I was happy! Happy!" https://padlet.com/6554wvcrep/hd57wa9venwi/wish/82512425 2015-11-19 20:47:02 UTC https://padlet.com/6554wvcrep/hd57wa9venwi/wish/82512425 "when Bon Jovi’s “Runaway” came out I imagined it was me they were singing about." https://padlet.com/6554wvcrep/hd57wa9venwi/wish/82513749 (pg. 19 [Google Books version])

]]> 2015-11-19 20:52:26 UTC https://padlet.com/6554wvcrep/hd57wa9venwi/wish/82513749 In her https://padlet.com/6554wvcrep/hd57wa9venwi/wish/82513880 2015-11-19 20:53:05 UTC https://padlet.com/6554wvcrep/hd57wa9venwi/wish/82513880 In her favorite Maria Montez daydream, a dashing European of the Jean Pierre Aumont variety...would catch sight of her in the bakery and fall madly love with her and sweep her off to his chateau in France. pg 87 https://padlet.com/6554wvcrep/hd57wa9venwi/wish/82513882 2015-11-19 20:53:05 UTC https://padlet.com/6554wvcrep/hd57wa9venwi/wish/82513882 https://padlet.com/6554wvcrep/hd57wa9venwi/wish/82524886 But where she

]]> 2015-11-19 21:51:10 UTC https://padlet.com/6554wvcrep/hd57wa9venwi/wish/82524886 https://padlet.com/6554wvcrep/hd57wa9venwi/wish/82525035 "But where she wanted to escape to she could not tell you" (80)

]]> 2015-11-19 21:51:59 UTC https://padlet.com/6554wvcrep/hd57wa9venwi/wish/82525035 "Hija, if you ever come home late again you'll have to leave this house, and Beli saying, Don't worry, I'll be leaving soon enough" (Diaz 116). https://padlet.com/6554wvcrep/hd57wa9venwi/wish/82555947 2015-11-20 02:45:09 UTC https://padlet.com/6554wvcrep/hd57wa9venwi/wish/82555947