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\nAnswer the Following Questions:
\nOcean Blue — The first paragraph is just packed with information about Celia del Pino. Read it very carefully. What are we being told? What are the implications of — everything?<\/p>\n
Page 10 — Note how Garcia dovetails the Soviet tanks in Prague and the del Pino family. She does this throughout the book — place these people in history. Why?
\nPages 13-15 — The Chapter ends with a Santurce ceremony. Describe, please, and discuss how it links with the Nigerian\/Ibo religion in Things Fall Apart.<\/p>\n
Going South
\nPage 18 — There are two wonderful paragraphs describing Lourdes walking and her bakery. Discuss how everything here has a history.
\nPage 19 — What do you make of the supernatural phenomenon, the astral projection, the fire on the East River?
\nPage 24 — Discuss Pilar’s birth — and what her Nanny does. What’s going on?
\nPage 32 — Discuss Pilar’s memories of coming to New York. Talk about the tugs of two cultures on her.<\/p>\n
The House on Palmas Street
\nPage 42 — Discuss Lourdes’ birth. Why do they give her that name?
\nPage 44 — Celia falls in love with the Revolution. Why? How?<\/p>\n
A Grove of Lemons
\nPage 58 — Discuss Pilar’s problems with Catholicism. Why does she have them? Why does she want to go back to Cuba?
\nPage 64 — Does Lourdes’ father really come back to see her? If not, why not?
\nPages 71-72 — The rape is particularly horrible. Why does he do it? How can she read his entire future? Why can’t she read what he’s carved?<\/p>\n
The Fire Between Them
\nPages 75-77 — Talk about Felicia’s so-called delusions, especially in the contexts of Religious Mysticism and Magic Realism. What are delusions anyway, and are these delusions?<\/p>\n
Celia’s Letters — To whom does she write? Why? What dimensions do the Letters add to the novel?<\/p>\n
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