Response to Elana's Blog

I agreed with Elana's last blog about chapters 3 and 4. It is really screwed up that people in places like India and Mexico have to live in shacks that can't really stand up to violent weather, while most of the population in America get to live in stable homes with heating, air conditioning, indoor plumbing, etc. When reading her blog, I also made a connection between this book and Across A Hundred Mountains. Nadira's family used to live in houses that flooded easily and had a hard life back in India, and so did Juana/Juanalina's family. Both of the books we have read have been about women who undergo huge hardships and tragedy but come out of it stronger people than they were before. (Although we don't know whether Nadira will, but I predict that's what will happen.)