“Ordinary Girls” is a Book written by Jaquira Diaz, a Puerto Rican woman who deals with hardships with her family and grows up in poverty. In the second section of “Ordinary Girls” Jaquira is trying to help her mother who is constantly doing drugs and smoking cigarettes and not being a mother to her. She also talks about her brother being abusive towards her, and she would stand up for herself by fighting back. Jaquira talks about how mothers are supposed to be loving and caring and always be there for you, but her mother was just hurting her. “We’re supposed to love our mothers, we’re supposed to trust them and need them and miss them when they’re gone. But what if that same person, the one who’s supposed to love you more than anyone else in the world, the one who’s supposed to protect you, is also the one who hurts you the most?” (Diaz 58) She also talks about how her father wouldn’t fight back for them if her mother took them away, or when Jaquira would show bruises from her mother to her father or to even show a sign that he even cared. This shows how her parents are bad role models and are not being supportive, making her life lonely.