Meeting: Monday, Oct. 12th @ 1:00 P.M.:
Was this AN ENGAGING book for You? WHY or WHY NOT?
Characters / Relationships:
- Alice/Jake/
- Alice /Sister Jane
- Carla/Brother (Junior)/mother in Texas
- Alice/Humberto and Ernesto as her guide to America
- Evian / Sam
- Principal Marion / Chavez Memorial High School
Major Themes to Consider:
- Immigration (Texas / Mexico / Nicaragua / Honduras / Austin, Texas)
- Adoption / positives - negatives / heartbreak and insane bliss
- Childless couples
- "The American Dream"
- Adoption of children from illegal aliens
- Cancer - specifically ovarian cancer (Alice's Mom) & Breast Cancer (Alice)
- Living "freely" and not acknowledging risks (Jane) vs preventive procedures which made pregnancy impossible (Alice)
- Abandonment (Carla's brother Junior)
- Fear/Risk
- Rape - Witnessing Rape and not acknowledging
- Drug dependancy (glue sniffing by Jacob)
- Are your direct decendents from a native people of the United States?
- From what countries did your ancestors come to America?
- Imagine their first arrival on U.S. soil - how did they travel to the U.S?
- How difficult was their journey?
- Compare their travel to Carla's journey in this book
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