(B3 and 4- 4Q) Letters To My Mother Teresa Cárdenas

     The book I am reading is about a young girl that was sent to live with her aunt and cousins. She was sent to live with them due to her mother passing away. She writes letter to her beloveded mother to show she was once and still loved. To also keep her mother somehow alive, and to remember her mother was once deeply loved. In the letters she writes to "Mamita" about how she's feeling each day. Mainly pouring out her grief and her struggles with racism.
     The first writing to her mother talked about Mamita being seen in her dreams. She described how she seen and what Mamita was doing. "A lovely red ribbon was braided into your ponytail. You were running from one end of the sky to the other pulling a kite made of clouds." She also described how Mamita's mood looked like. "You weren't happy, but there you were, running and skipping like a nine year old." Both texts from the writing show how alive that dream felt.
     Another writing I read talked about how her grandmother and tia believe she has brought them bad luck. Grandma and Tia Catalina has made her bathe in some strange smelling herbs as she describes it. "They've put some strange smelling herbs in my room. I also have to bathe in them, and put sweetwood bark and perfume in the water. The scent is okay, but the barks sticks to my skin and turns it the color of ash." This text shows how they reacted to the "bad luck" that was shared in the house they lived in.