Characters
Works night and day to provide for her family.
Who is Mama?
Mariposas
What are butterflies?
Author of The Summer of the Marisposas
Who is McCall?
Questions the girls at customs.
Who is the FBI?
"My name is Efrain Perdido. ... Are you friends of Beatriz?"
Efrain Perdido, brother of Beatriz
Ghostly mother of drowned children.
Who is La Llorona?
Five sisters
cinco hermanitas
Who is Cecilia?
Given by the girls to their mama.
What are roses?
"Whatever it is deal with it, Odilia."
Mama
Evil, human-faced owls!
What are Lechuzas?
Sopapilla
"Puffy pastry treat made from... served with honey"
Who Odilia is based on (from The Odyssey by Homer)?
Who is Odysseus?
The person at their home when they return.
Who is Papa?
"You still have to work on those dictionary skills."
Odilia to Juanita
Hairy, weird boy
Chencho, El Chupacabra
El Corazon
What is the heart?
Describe a chupacabra in detail.
What is a mythological Mexican hair-beast / The chupacabras is a legendary creature said to kill livestock, especially goats, by sucking their blood. Though it might look strange to an English speaker, the term chupacabras is actually singular---it means “sucker of goats."
Promised by the father at their home.
"Okay," (293).
Who is Juanita?
The fortune teller
Teresita
Munecas
What are dolls and/or wrists?
Tonantzin
Tonantzin was an Aztec mother goddess who later became associated with the image of the Virgin Mary during the spread of Christianity after the fall of Tenochtitlan
New characters introduced...
Who are the stepdaughters and Papa's new partner?
"You look dried out. ... Come have some water."