Under The Feet Of Jesus Flashcards

He is old, wears bifocals, balding with sparse silver hair.

Gumicindo and Alejo are in the peach tree stealing peaches.

She thinks about cooking and preparing to live there. She also wants to protect her family from scorpions by etching a circle in the dirt around the bungalow.

<p>The way he peeled an orange.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>She grabs the empty Quaker Oats box and bangs on it while dancing around the room.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>He creates shadow puppets, culminating in the eagle which he chases as it flies away.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Her nose and her cruelty - she asks Estrella why her mother never gives her a bath but refuses to help her understand letters and reading.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>He taught her to use the tools in the toolbox. She understood then that things have purposes and she learned to read.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Skinny, tall, blond hair, quite crude. She is illiterate. She and her family are trashy.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Maxine has magazines/comics that her brother stole. She has Estrella read them to her.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>There is a dead dog - most likely killed by pesticides.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>She will get into trouble because they will have to leave the camp. Maxine's family will come after them.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To keep the scorpions out - like her mother.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Alejo sees Estrella swimming in the canal at night. He is struck by her. He brings them peaches.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>He snaked a man's toilet (unclogged it).</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The woman on the SunMaid Raisin box does not resemble Estrella - she is fresh, clean, smiling.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Alejo is working in the fields to earn money. He wants to go to college to become a geologist.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>She is in intense pain and she believes that her life will be the same whether she is 4 or 14 or 40. She is hopeless.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Despite being an American citizen, she is an outsider and she doesn't feel she would belong.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>On the doily crocheted by her grandmother under the feet of the statue of Jesu Cristo.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>He asks about her father.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A blue bottle of cola.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Estrella growing up, perhaps becoming pregnant, and Perfecto leaving the family.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>He wants her to help him tear down the barn.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A biplane sprays him with pesticides.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The remains of those who died there go unremembered.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Perfecto's wife when he was young.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Perfecto's Catholicism prevented the women of the village from helping her with their non-Catholic practices.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>He wants money to go back home (to die).</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>They talked about the tar pits.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>She is no longer afraid of the barn.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Perfecto thinks Alejo should go back home.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Gumicindo is 15. Alejo is almost 16 (but still 15).</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>They are playing with ladybugs.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>She wants to care for Alejo because she is a mother and would want someone to care for her children were she unable to do so.</p> Signup and view all the answers

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<p>He wants to go back home to Mexico, but he does not want to abandon Petra and the children.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>It is almost dead, and he needs the car to get to Mexico.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>It is a flashback.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>They are trying to cross the highway to get to the store, but the children are small, and the cars are fast.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Petra envies the man with the lime green car. He could travel easily, knew his neighbors well because he didn't have to constantly move.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>There were too many things to touch, and there was candy she could not afford to buy them.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>6 cans of Spam, onions, and garlic.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>There were 3: A lopsided poster of the Virgin Mary decorated with Christmas lights was positioned between posters of Elvis Presley and Marilyn Monroe.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>She meets Perfecto.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Ice.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>She overhears the conversation between Alejo and Estrella as everyone is waking up. Estrella asks about his dreams, and Alejo tells Estrella he'd like to spend a whole day with her.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>She makes potato burritos.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>She is afraid for Estrella, she is worn out, and she is pregnant.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Estrella agrees to tear the barn down in exchange for Perfecto taking Alejo to the doctor. She is afraid the job will be given to someone else.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>They get stuck in the mud.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>[Missing Answer]</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>He was exhausted.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Other piscadores passing by stopped to help.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The fan was on, the door was unlocked, and there was a car parked outside.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Cheating on the weight when she picked cotton in order to make a little more money.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Alejo is Petra's nephew. Perfecto is Petra's husband. Alejo has been sick a few months. He's the spelling bee champ of Hidalgo County.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>She doesn't trust either.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>She weighs him and takes his blood pressure.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>$15.00.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>He offers to fix the toilet, recement the poles in the Folger's cans, and sand and paint the walls.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>She takes the crowbar from the tool chest, brings it in, and smashes it on the desk. She then removes exactly the amount of money that Perfecto had given the nurse.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>After Alejo tells her that he is not worth their efforts, she recalls the beautifully arranged bell peppers.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Estrella helps him.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>In all the time he has been in the US, no one has ever thanked him.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>That she has the power to open doors without touching them.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Moses parting the Red Sea.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>She gets the children into the house and then retraces the circle in the dirt around the bungalow.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>He imagines that the nurse will have called the police. He considers leaving. He thinks about Petra's pregnancy. He struggles with decision making.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>She thinks about her grandmother who crocheted. The children's birth certificates, baptismal certificates, a social security card, an ID, her marriage certificate, and an award given to Estrella.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>As Petra struggles to get up from the floor, she leaned on the crate holding the statue, it falls, and the head comes off.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>She recalls leaving Alejo at the hospital and considers that she may never see him again and that he might even die.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>She goes to the barn.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>She believes that she can evoke change - a vast change from the hopeless girl in the vineyards.</p> Signup and view all the answers