Prison?

Ladydi arrived okay. She started working the day she arrived in this beautiful big house. She had to take care of the children. She just had to take care of one six year old boy named Alexis. She loved playing with them and taking care of them. She knew a man there, it was a gardener his name was Julio and slowly she began falling in love. Julio also liked Ladydi and they went on trips to islands and hold hands. Ladydis mother called her once a week and the last time Ladydi didn't answer so fast. Her mom was desperate, she said to Ladydi that mike had been arrested, because he killed a little girl. He also said that Ladydi was with him, when he killed him. Ladydis mom insisted to Ladydi that she had to escape because they where coming for her. She didn't listen until one day three policeman broke in to the big house and started to revise every single room. They got into Ladydis room and they found the bag full of drug. She was taken and she never said goodbye to Julio. She went to Mexico City by helicopter with a police officer. People asked her questions about why she would kill a little girl. Ladydi went to jail. In the book it doesn't specify how much time she spend there but she was a minor so no much long. When she went out they discover she was pregnant and her mother said. "Just pray its a boy."

I imagine the house garden to be like this.

" Theres something I need to tell you, I said. There are five people in this taxi. I pointed to my belly. Theres a baby in here, I said. My mother didn't blink or breathe or move and then she kissed my cheek. Maria kissed my other cheek. They kissed me but they did not kissed me. They were kissing my child already. My mother said just pray its a boy." pg. (222)

I like the relationship between Ladydi and her mother. They had been through a lot of things and they still are together. I like how Ladydis mother always helped her and supported her in everything she did. At the begging of the book she was not a good mother for me because she always was drunk and she didn't payed much attention to Ladydi but, now I realize she always was there for her daughter taking care of her and at the end she made her realize how difficult is life and that you have to work hard to succeed. 

                                        

"Did the fortuneteller tell my mom that her daughter was going to go to jail." pg. (157)

I wonder why would they put Ladydi in jail if she didn't kill someone? They didn't had proves that she killed the little girl. She was a minor at the time they were going to put her in jail. The crime was so bad that she had to go to jail?

                                                             

I really enjoyed reading this book. It made me realize how lucky I am. I loved how the author used imagery and characterization to describe each thing. That helped me to understand more and more and also to have and image of the story in my head. When I read this book I also had many connections and questions. I would really recommend reading this book because its really fascinating.

This is the author Jennifer Clement. 

In my way to Acapulco

One normal day after Ladydi graduating, She was on her house with her mom and Maria. Ladydis mother started to drank and really fast she got wasted. She was so drunk that she thought Maria was his husband, so she got a gun and shoot at Maria's arm. Ladydi that same minute got Maria and she took her to a taxi. They were on their way to Acapulco leaving Ladydis mother behind. After Maria got cured everything was fine. She didn't knew Ladydi mother had shot at her and this was left as an accident. Days passed and Ladydi was ready to leave Guerrero and work at Acapulco. She left town with Mike that would take her to the rich house in which she wold work on. Mike had some trouble and he was trying to involve Ladydi in it. It was a drug deal. But Ladydi didnt know. He gave her a bag and told her that he would pick up that bag in a few days. She arrived to a beautifull white and big house. She felt on paradise. 


                                      



"Your father sends my mother money. I dont believe you. He hasnt sent us money for years. Well, he sends my mother money. Every month." pg. (120)

I wonder why would Ladydi father send money to Mike and Maria and not to her and her mother. What did Ladydi mother did in the past that her husband doesn't sent her money any more. Why did Ladydis father went with another women when he was with her mom?

                                 



"Ill be back to pick that bag in a few days, he said." pg. (120)

This quote remembers me of a story I heard some years ago. It was about a boy that was waiting for a bus to come, and a guy came to him and asked if he could take care of his bag for a minute. Many time passed and no one came. Then he saw the same guy with the police saying that he had to revise the man and the bag. They found drug in the bag and the man went to prison. I think something a like is happening with Ladydi and Mike. 

                     


This few chapters had been really interesting. As more as I read the more interesting the book is getting. I like how the author tells the story. It makes me feel like I am in it. I want to know what is going to happen in the end of the book. I predict Ladydi is going to found a true love in the place she works or maybe outside of work in a party or something alike. 

Where My Adventure Began

This is how I imagine Ladydi school in Guerrero Mountain

After months of Ladydi  knowing her dads secret she promised her mom she wouldn't tell Maria that she was her half sister. Her dad was gone forever and her mom the only thing she did was curse him. Things were calmed in t Guerrero for a wile, and the government had sent a teacher from Acapulco to teach Ladydi and the girls from the mountain. She enjoyed having class but her other friends like Estefani, Maria and Paula were bored and sometimes they slept in class. She knew a guy in the school Mike who was older than her and was Maria sister. After he graduated he went to work to Acapulco and sometimes he went to Guerrero to visit his family. Years passed and it was time for Ladydi to graduate, she discussed with her mother that what would she do when she grew older, and now was the time. Ladydi asked her mom if she would sell thing on the street and her mom always become crazy with that stuff. One day that Mike passed through the mountain, he knew that it was time for Ladydi to have some work and he told them that a rich family in Acapulco needed a nanny. Ladydi discussed this with her mom and she agreed. She would have a new job in Acapulco! 

                               


"My mother said to me, you're not going to sell iguanas on the side of the road. Your not going to stay here doing nothing and you better not get pregnant or Ill kill you" pg. (72)

I like this part of the book because the author is being really specific. He is also trying to teach the reader that as a mom you gotta guide your children into wanting them to work and succeed in their life. I also like how the author is trying to make Ladydis mom be seen as she wants to change all the bad things she has done and she wants her child to be better and she is. 

"The drug traffickers, who'd killed Paula's mothers dogs and had stolen her wrapped naked in a white towel, were now going to sell her." pg. (77)

I felt really sad in this chapter because its amazing what people are capable of doing. Sometimes people just want to take advantage of others and use them to gain power. I think this is happening in this book right now. I feel bad for Paula because she didn't deserve all these bad things on her life. 

This is Acapulco

In the next chapters of Prayers for the Stolen I think that Ladydi is going to Acapulco to work in her new job. She is going to enjoy so much being there and working there that she is going to look for another job that will pay her better. I think she is going to forget about her mother that lives in Guerrero. Furthermore she will receive a call of one of her closest friends that her mom passed out. 

When my Dad Left

Ladydi mother worked in a very rich house on Acapulco; she cleaned the house and takes cared of it with Ladydi. Her mother always robbed something from this house. Mainly toilet paper and food.  Ladydi didn’t understood why, and she always told her mother that it’s bad but she always kept doing it because they were poor. His dad used to give them money each month and he came to visit them once a year. But the last time he came he didn’t return. Ladydis mom was sure that he would never return and everything she did was wishing him dead. One day her mom was drinking a lot and she started saying that she had to know the truth about her father, that he had slept with her best friend, Maria's mother. Ladydis reaction was to get a beer and drank it really fast.

“That was the first time my daddy left. He didn’t even wake me up from my drunk, new-drunk sleep to say goodbye” pg. (44)

This part of the story reminds me of a place I help where many children are abandoned by their families or are abused or have problems in the place they live. In this place for children I knew a boy that had sort of the same problem. He lived with his mom and she locked her in the house with anything to eat and the only thing her mom gave to this kid was alcohol so he learned to drink. Until one day the owners of this place found this child and took him to their house with them.

“As the years passed my mother grew angrier and began to drink too much” pg. (41)

Ladydi mother is not very responsible. She shouldn’t be drinking if she has a daughter and if her daughter is in danger. She should also be working all days a week, not only weekends. She also shouldn’t be stealing things from others because it’s not the best thing to do. In the other hand Ladydi is much careful with what she does. She is helping her mom get jobs and cleaning her house and room. But she is known getting worse and starting to be like her mom, drunk.

Payers for the Stolen are a very interesting book and it’s getting really dramatically. I like how the author makes the reader have suspense and want to keep reading. I think Ladydi dad is going to come back and her mom is going to get crazy and maybe kill him. Furthermore she is going to try to hide it from Ladydi but she is going to discover somehow the body.

Making Myself Look Like a Boy

PRAYERS FOR THE STOLEN 

By: Jennifer Clement

Ladydi Garcia Martinez is a girl that lives in a small town in Mexico called Guerrero. Being her or being a girl its not easy where she lives. She has to pretend to be a boy and dress like one. The best thing you can be in Mexico is an ugly girl. If you are seen as a girl you are going to be stolen  by the drug traffickers, and nobody who has been taken come back. Her mother the minute Ladydi was born told the whole town that she was a boy to protect her from the kidnappers. She did everything like knock her teeth or put her in a hole with snakes so nobody would enter to this place. One day one of her closest friends Paula was kidnapped and she was the only girl that returned from the kidnapped, but she never specked about it. 

"On our mountain only boys were born, and some of them turned into ugly girls who sometimes had to hide in holes in the ground" pg.(4)

When I read this part of the book it made me felt lucky and fortunate about all I have. It made me think of how would I react if a was a girl that had to dress up as a boy to be careful of the kidnappers. I could not resist hiding in a hole full of snakes and scorpions. I think this girl Ladydi and all the girls who hide are really brave.

"Then one day Paula walked back home. she had seven earrings that climbed up the cupped edge of her left ear in a straight line of blue, yellow and green studs and a tattoo that snaked around her wrist with the words cannibal baby" pg.(5)

I wonder what the kidnappers do with the girls, why are they only girls and for what they use them? I also wonder why did Paula came back to Guerrero and how did she returned? Did the kidnappers didn't need her any more or did she escape? Why did she had tattoos and earrings? 

I think that in the next's chapters I predict that something is going to happen to Ladydi. I think many of the girls in her community somehow are going to dissapear, and she is going to look after them. But her and the other girls are going to come back but with some sort of problem.