How we cite our quotes: (Part.Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #4
I'd drive further and further out, pretending to myself that I was running away to the capital. But something always made me turn the car around and head back home, something I'd seen from the corner of my eye. (2.6.10)
This is a mysterious line. Minerva has a car; she has the freedom to drive all over the countryside, but she doesn't let herself break free from her family and really run away to follow her dreams. What do you think that thing is that she sees out of the corner of her eye?
Quote #5
And so I thought of a way for Nelson to be in the capital, under supervision so he wouldn't be running wild with women or his rebel uncles. I talked to Padre de Jesús López, our new priest, who promised to talk to Padre Fabré about letting Nelson enroll in Santo Tomás de Aquino in the capital. It was a seminary, but there was no obligation to the priesthood. (2.8.38)
Nelson, just like his mother, aunts, and uncles, supports the revolution. But, because he's a teenager, his mother's main goal is to protect him and not send him off to battle. She hatches a plan that will keep him safe by keeping him confined within the walls of a religious school.
Quote #6
Dear Father,
Greetings in the Lord's name from the mother of one of your charges, Nelson González, completing his fourth year, a smart boy on the whole, as you yourself wrote in your last report, but not always the best with self-control. To make sure he studies hard and stays out of trouble, please, do not let my son off the grounds except to come home. (2.8.87-88)
This letter gets Patria into big trouble with her sister and son. She orders the director of the school to keep her son locked in the school when she knows that the invasion is supposed to happen, to keep him safe. It offends everyone, but she stands strong, believing she can protect him by locking him down.