Chapter 20 – EsperanzaMatt begins the chapter with a fever. He contemplates the fact that he is fourteen years old, and from his perspective, an adult.
Matt returns to the oasis, where he continues to read more about the history of Opium. He learns that eejits are made from illegal immigrants trying to get from Mexico to the United States, having to pass through Opium. El Patron continues to be described as evil. Matt learns that Esperanza Mendoza is Maria’s mother –Maria was told her mother was dead. He plans on telling Maria her mother is alive.
Could Tam Lin and Celia be working on a plan to save Matt? El Patron is growing weak again and thinks Matt is Felipe, his dead son. He begins to think about running away to Atzlan, but not until Emilia and Steven’s wedding – he had to see Maria again.
- How did knowing he was 14 make Matt feel?
- Why did Matt further study Tam Lin’s books and Maps?
- Why did El Patron come up with idea of Eejits?
- What happened to dead Eejits?
- How did they lose their humanity?
- What is Matt’s reaction to what he read?
- Who wrote the book? What was the author’s relationship to Maria?
- What did Matt plan to do with his new knowledge?
- Who had once lived at the Oasis?
- Who was Felipe?
- Why can’t Matt escape to Aztlan yet?
1 He feels like an adult now and that he is strong
ReplyDelete2 To try to figure out why Tam Lin gave them to him
3 So people would be slaves and not have feelings
4 They were disrespected
5 The computer chip basically destroyed the real them
6 He got angry and wanted to blame Esperanza
7 Esperanza who is Maria's Mom
8 Show Maria who Esperanza is and realize El Patron is evil
9 El Patron
10 El Patron's son that died around 80 years ago
11 He needs to say bye to Maria
1- it made mat feel like an adult
ReplyDelete2- to someday escape
3- to make them work without escaping
4- they burried them underground
5- there senses and there desions
6- A sad feeling
7- mendoza. mendoza is realet to maria because it is her mother
8- he plannesd to escape
9- el patron lived there
10- elpatrons brother
11- that's because of maria
1. He felt mature.
ReplyDelete2. To escape into Neverland!
3. So that people worked without complaining.
4. They burned them at a stake.
5. They lost everything they once had a say in.
6. Angerrrrrrrrr.......
7. Esperanza, Mary's mama...
8. He's going to realize El Patron is an evil man who eats babies...
9. El' Patron.
10. A realative of Patrony-boy.
11. Because of Mary-John