ROG Final Blog

Summary: In the last couple of chapters in the book starting from part five “Time of Miracles”. New challenges happened I both Lupe’s and Juan’s life. In chapter nineteen, Lupe family is ready to receive their paycheck, when Sophia Lupe’s sister notices that her paycheck is smaller than the men’s paycheck. Outraged Sophia organizes a strike so the foremen can pay both men and women equally after three day’s Sophia is triumphant and the foremen starts paying them equally. Also in this chapter Mark, the man that proposed to Lupe comes back to visit her o see if she has an answer to his question in marrying him. Lupe responds to him by telling him that she doesn’t have time to be getting married, because her sisters and brothers are dedicating all their time to take care of the parents. Juan and Lupe meet for the first time alone they both talk about their dreams and they notice that both of them have similar dreams, about the future. Lupe realizes that she is in love with Juan but doesn’t know he she loves more, Juan the one who is always making her angry but always has a good time with or Mark the one she can have intellectual conversations with. Her mother tells her that the one you hate the most is the one you love the most. Juan is really winning the families trust and Lupe’s family is really starting to like him, Victorano tells Juan that their family needs work and ask Juan if he can help them out with a job at the manure place he works at Juan is caught in his own lie but quickly thinks about his friend who actually does work in moving manure and tells him to provide Lupe’s family with a job so he does. Chapter twenty, Domingo returns home right when Don Margarita was going to leave to Chicago to look for him. He’s not alone he accompanied with his girlfriend Nellie, who’s married to someone else and left her three children behind to be with Domingo. Dona Margarita doesn’t like the fact that she left her children, what kind of mother does such a thing. Domingo returns telling the family that he distilled Canadian whiskey in Chicago, and later on is drinking Juan’s whiskey in the front porch making it visible to everyone. At first Domingo was going top ask for Lupe’s hand but since Juan doesn’t seem to trust his brother a lot he decides to tell Father Ryan to ask for her hand. This leads to what happens next in , Juan and Father Ryan go to Lupe’s house so drunk that Juan accidentally call Carlota, Maria. He falls to the ground and that when Don Victorano tells him that he will give him an answer in three days, Don Victorano goes out and investigates things on Juan. He finds out that Juan is a bootlegger and is ok with that , and tell him that he has the consent by Dona Guadalupe to marry his daughter. But with one condition Juan has to carry and take care of the pot of white lilies she carried all the way form La Luvia de oro. In chapter twenty-three Juan comes home when men pop out of the bushes and take him inside where Domingo is tied down in a chair with his face covered in blood, and right next to him stands the man he met at the hotel job he was going to take. Domingo caused this mess he was tired of being in the house so he went out to a play pool, he met a man and befriended him not knowing this man was an undercover cop. The men beat Juan and when he wakes up he finds him self in jail with Domingo so weak he could barely stand. He calls Fred Noon, his lawyer friend that bails him out, but Domingo stay with the sentence of three years. When Juan returns home Nellie already gave birth to Domingo’s baby and decides to go back to Chicago to see if her husband will take her back but leaves the baby and Lusia promises to tae care of it as if it was hers. Juan need’s to buy Lupe’s ring. He calls up Archie his friend to see if he can let him borrow some money to buy Lupe her ring, Archie refuses to lend him the money so he decides to sell his truck and goes to his friend Kenney to see if he can help him out, being the good friend Kenny is he lets Juan borrow four hundred dollars. Lupe and Carlota meet Juan’s family Carlota and Lusia do not get along, but Dona Margarita notices that Lupe is the same women she wanted Juan to meet and is happy they met. The last Chapter is the best chapter, Lupe and Juan get married. They their reception in the back yard of Lupe’s house, where both families are at enjoying the music and the whiskey Archie sneaked in, When Juan pulls Lupe to the side he kisses with fiery emotions of love both of them looking at each others eyes with such passion Juan tells Lupe about their future they will have together.

Questions:

What are possible solutions for Juan’s hate towards his own people?

What are some commonly held beliefs or perspectives on religion and how it defined in families and or societies?

What are the consequences of not following family tradition?