100 MOUNTAINS
Part 3 Questions - Introductory Activities
Agree/Disagree
- Hiring a good coyote is the only means to safely cross the border without documents into the U.S. from Mexico.
- It is easier to forgive others than to forgive yourself.
- For the most part, people are good Samaritans who chose to help another before helping themselves.
- Justice can only be served when the perpetrator has been punished.
- The truth is always the strongest argument.
WHO SAID IT?
Adelina, Diana, Don Ernesto, Doña Matilde, Lupe, Juana
- What do you know about pain? You don’t know what it’s like to be responsible for a child’s death. You don’t know what it’s like for me when night comes, when my body yearns for rest and my guilty conscience can’t let it sleep.
- One day he’ll change. He’ll be like he used to be when we first met. I know he loves me. And I know one day he’ll change.
- My husband is in El Otro Lado. Soon he will come back. He told me so. Soon we will be together.
- He brought a white rosary made with heart-shaped beads.
- You know exactly what I mean. I know who you are. You’ve been gone for years, and now you've come back to try to take my son away from me.
- Love is hard to find. You must not let it go. Don’t waste your youth searching for a ghost.
HOMEWORK
- Read pages 166-195 and do questions 5-13.
