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What is the theme for The Only Road?
Inspired by true incidents, The Only Road tells an individual story of a boy who feels that leaving his home and risking everything is his only chance for a better Life. It is a story of fear and bravery, love and loss, strangers becoming family, and one boy’s treacherous and life-changing journey.
Why do Jaime and Angela leave their home?
When Jaime’s cousin Miguel is murdered in gang violence, his family fears that he will be next. There’s only one choice: accompanied by his cousin Angela, Jaime must flee his home to live with his older brother in New Mexico.
What happens to Xavi in The Only Road?
He had been killed.
How old is Angela in The Only Road?
15-year-old
After gangs in his small Guatemalan village kill his cousin when he refuses to join them, 14-year-old Jaime and his 15-year-old cousin Ángela know that THE ONLY ROAD to their own survival is the one that leads north through Mexico to the United States.
What was Joaquin’s secret in The Only Road?
Joaquín ~ Joaquín is a very interesting character. Throughout the whole journey he is recognized as a boy, but he soon tells Ángela his secret. He is actually a girl. The reason Joaquín only told Ángela was because she felt more comfortable telling another girl.
What point of view is used in The Only Road?
Point of View The novel is narrated in the third-person, always from the perspective of Jaime as he attempts to escape the violent gangs of his home village in Guatemala and make it into the United States.
What was Joaquin’s secret in the only road?
What point of view is used in the only road?
Who is Miguel in the only road?
About the Book Twelve-year old Jaime Rivera and his cousins Miguel and Ángela are a part of a close-knit family in Guatemala, but when Miguel is murdered after refusing to join a local gang involved in drug trafficking, their family is forced to make a heartbreaking decision.
Who dies in the only road?
Miguel
Twelve-year old Jaime Rivera and his cousins Miguel and Ángela are a part of a close-knit family in Guatemala, but when Miguel is murdered after refusing to join a local gang involved in drug trafficking, their family is forced to make a heartbreaking decision.
Is we a first person word?
The pronouns I and we are first-person pronouns; they refer to the self. The pronoun you, used for both singular and plural antecedents, is the second-person pronoun, the person who is being addressed.
What is Joaquin’s secret in the only road?
How many types of people are there in English grammar?
First, second, and third person are ways of describing points of view. First person is the I/we perspective. Second person is the you perspective. Third person is the he/she/it/they perspective.
How old is Maya in far from the tree?
Grace searches for her biological family and finds 15-year-old Maya, a loud-mouthed brunette in a rich family of redheads, and Joaquin, who’s almost 18. After years of living with sketchy foster families, he’s finally with a loving and caring couple who want nothing more than to formally adopt him.