Key Plot Points
Who did Odilia get her magic earrings from?
La Llorona
In the beginning of the novel, which sister was against the plan to return the dead man to Mexico?
Odilia/the oldest sister
How did the girls get past the guard to enter Mexico?
Odilia hypnotized him with her magic earing.
What is a theme statement?
Universal messages or lessons explored in a text.
La Llorona
What is the youngest sisters name?
Pita
What animal could Pita hear talking, but the other sisters could not understand?
A donkey
What type of figurative language is present in the following text:
"Pita was as nervous as a little mouse."
Simile
How did Cecilia keep the girls under her spell?
She drugged the sweets that she fed them.
What is the dead man's name?
Gabriel Perdido
What did the girls have to do to escape the Nagual?
Sing a magic song
What type of figurative language is present in the following text:
"with a carpet of butterfly corpses under her feet"?
Metaphor
Which of the sisters' idea was it to return the dead body back to Mexico?
Juanita
What is the girls' grandmother's name?
Abuelita Remedios
What Aztec God does Odilia call to when when she uses the magic earrings?
Tonantzin
What is the difference between "Dominant Narratives" and "Counter Narratives"?
Dominant Narratives are widely-believed social, political, and/or historical narratives that are told by people in power, while Counter Narratives are Social, political, and/or historical narratives that are told by groups who have been oppressed or silenced.