Foreshawdowing

    This book begins with intrigue, as a reader we see that the books main three characters are dead before we even read the first line. In the first chapter the only remaining sister who is alive after a "great tragedy" is Dede. In Dede's first chapter we see that she is forced to relive the story of her three sisters murders everyday for the rest of her life. Dede while doing a basic interview begins to have a flash back, in which it is the first time as a reader we get a little insight into the lives of the three sisters. Dede beings speaking with each girls personalities, their strong traits, ages and their dreams. Even from the second we start hearing about every girls personalities you get an overwhelming sense of how strong willed each one is, how strong each of their personalities are. And slowly the story of these four sisters begin to unveil itself.
     One of the sisters that I was immediately drawn to was Patria. For her story is one that is not only opposite of my own, but I feel like that she is going to be the character with the most excitement at the end of the story. The first words that we heard about Patria was "Sweet Patria, always her religion was so important... Always. Well almost always." (Page 6) That immediately sparked my interest. That is obvious foreshadowing that she may become a nun or there is some other completely different life path for her to take.
      In chapter four is the first time that we begin to her the story straight from Patria herself. Patria and her fellow sisters go to a boarding religious school so that Patria can inch closer to her dream of becoming a nun. Then as the story goes Patria falls in love with the idea of loving a man and she instantly refuses her calling into going into the sister hood. The sisters of the school had great faith that she too would become a sister. When having to tell them that she received the sign that the lifestyle wasn't for her she was still inspired by the faith. "I felt there was nothing to apologize for. At last, my spirit was descending into flesh, and there was more, not less, of me to praise God." (Page 49)
       Those two direct quotes in enough for me to think that down the line in the story something else comes into play with Patria's part of the story. For that I'm extremely now intrigued.