I noticed that Jaquira Diaz was a child who was fascinated with monsters on pages 63-142. She read novels about demons and exorcisms, as well as films about resurrected witches. I discovered how irritating Anthony was on pages 69-72. And the torture he put on Jaqura and Alaina.“He’d terrorize us with stories about mice building nests in our curly hair, chewing off the tips of our fingers while we slept, sucking the liquid out of our eyeballs.”, she added, ” Hilarious. Anthony stayed with Abula and his Father, while Jaquira and Alina moved in with their Mother to an apartment on Bay Road. Because of their mother’s condition, they had a lot of problems there. They were also furious at their father for not keeping them with him and tried to run away. Jaquira was terrified of her mother, and she feared that she would grow up to be just like her. As I read those paragraphs, I realized how horrible mother Jaquira was. Perhaps it was because of her condition, but Jaquira  was helpless, yet brave and strong. She returned back to her father after a few days,  and fought with her brother to the extent where she stabbed him with a knife and went to jail. Even Though Juquira had a bit of support from her father she lost it all after stabbing her brother. And her fathers attention was all she was looking for. She spent a lot of time in jail as a teenager. Jaquira grew up extremely differently than any other ordinary girl because of all the incidents with her mother, brother, and father.