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[George R @GeorgeRp4B20]

@BurroughsClass “all four of us had buried someone we loved in Oklahoma” (Page 88). This means that Oklahoma has to be a symbol of death because very time they go back there someone mentions death in some way. #BTsymbol

[George R @GeorgeRp4B20]

@BurroughsClass Taylor then calls her mom to tell her that she is now a mother and she(her mom) is a grandma. #BTcharacter

[George R @GeorgeRp4B20]

@BurroughsClass After the events in ch.16 we are finally on the last chapter. On the same day Taylor takes Esperanza and Estaven to their safe house. Later on Turtle and Taylor say good by to the both of them. #BTcharacter

[George R @GeorgeRp4B20]

@BurroughsClass “We shook hands all around, I got the rest of the adoption arrangements straightened out with Mr. Armistead, and we filed out, a strange new combination of friends and family.” (Page 86) #BTquote

[George R @GeorgeRp4B20]

@BurroughsClass Esperanza gives Turtle her necklace. #BTcharacter

[George R @GeorgeRp4B20]

@BurroughsClass Esperanza’s reaction was that she crying because she was talking about her daughter Ismene. And she knows she could do better. #BTcharacter

[George R @GeorgeRp4B20]

@BurroughsClass Estaven and Esperanza lie to be the “real” parents of Turtle because they look a like. Armistead transferee the rights over to Taylor. #BTtopic

[George R @GeorgeRp4B20]

@BurroughsClass In chapter 16, Taylor is trying to get legal documents to be Turtles leagal gaurdian from Mr. Jonas Wilford Armistead in Oklahoma City. #BTtopic

[George R @GeorgeRp4B20]

@BurroughsClass “you already know there’s no such thing as promises. But I’ll try as hard as I can to stay with you.” (Page 84) #BTquote

[George R @GeorgeRp4B20]

@BurroughsClass Taylor then discuses Estevan and Esperanza about their names. “I love your names””They’re about the only thing you came here with that you’ve got left. I think you should only be Steven and Hope when you pull the wool over somebody’s eyes...” (Page 83) #BTquote

[George R @GeorgeRp4B20]

@BurroughsClass Taylor then tells Turtle that she’ll try her hardest to never leave her. #BTcharacter

[George R @GeorgeRp4B20]

@BurroughsClass Taylor saw Turtle bury her doll. It turns out that Turtle was pretty much re-enacting when she saw her mother get buried. #BTcharacter

[George R @GeorgeRp4B20]

@BurroughsClass In chapter 15, Turtle keeps shouting “Mama”. So everybody was looking for a person. But the only things that were there were. Gas station and a cemetery. #BTcharacter

[George R @GeorgeRp4B20]

@BurroughsClass Taylor is trying to find clues to finding Turtles Aunt. But there is no luck. “There had never been the remotest possibility of finding any relative of Turtle. I had driven across the country for a snipe hunt.” (Page 81) #BTquote

[George R @GeorgeRp4B20]

@BurroughsClass Later, Taylor goes to the bar were she was handed Turtle. The bar has new employees and a new owner. But no one knows where the old owner is. #BTcharacter

[George R @GeorgeRp4B20]

@BurroughsClass Now that everybody is in Oklahoma, Taylor heads towards the Broken Arrow. From all the way in the earlier chapters.#BTsymbols

[George R @GeorgeRp4B20]

@BurroughsClass “We are Maya people; we speak twenty-two different Mayan languages. Esperanza and I speak to each other in Spanish because we come from different parts of the highlands.” (Page 77) #BTquote

[George R @GeorgeRp4B20]

@BurroughsClass In chapter 14, Esperanza and Estaven tell Taylor that they are Mayan not Guatemalan. #BTcharacter

[George R @GeorgeRp4B20]

@BurroughsClass “Outside of town we passed a run over blackbird in the road, flattened on the center line...My instinct was to step on the breaks, but of course there was no earthly reason to stop for a dead bird “ (Page 75) #BTquote

[George R @GeorgeRp4B20]

@BurroughsClass Taylor decides to drive all the way to Oklahoma to Find Turtles aunt. The only problem is that Estevan and Esperanza are going with Taylor. So now everything is risky.#BTcharacter