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.