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2022-2023 NTB 3-6 > Barefoot Dreams of Petra Luna > Flashcards

Barefoot Dreams of Petra Luna Flashcards

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The smoking star lit the night sky as women wept, holding their babies close.

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Abuelita said girls have no business wearing pants.

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It didn’t take long to chop off enough wood to take into the village.

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Flour was a luxury reserved for the well-to-do.

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The lady jerked the wood from my hand and slammed the door shut.

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They were the rebels, the army of the people, who fought to give peasants land and liberty.

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His neatly folded sarape sat on top of his bed, waiting for his return.

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If you’re searching for men, you’re wasting your time.

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Hiding someone from us is a trespass punishable by death.

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I have orders to kill you and your family and then burn down this hut.

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I felt my way around the floor, across the broken crates and pots, until my hand found it - my black rock.

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I have to stop, m’ija.

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Find some stool, and use your hatchet to cut out its heart, but don’t crack it open until you bring it to me.

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It was an independence he believed would change the mestizos’ way of life.

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But if you ask me, I believe the desert is so harsh that every living thing in it has to grow thorns to protect itself.

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You already have thorns, and thorns are beautiful - they make you strong.

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As long as I’m with you, I know I’m safe.

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Dios lo bendiga, Padre.

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When a piece of coal gets squeezed very hard for a very long time, it becomes a diamond.

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The girl not only spoke perfect Spanish but her eyes, as blue as morning glories, looked at me like I was a deer friend.

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My heart almost burst with excitement when I saw a slate.

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His hand, soft on my face, provided strength but also reminded me how much I’d promised to protect.

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I also knew there was a train a day’s walk away that could take us there.

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Despite having had my mouth shut, bits of desert rolled across the top of my tongue and down my throat.

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Her drooping eyes were as red and swollen as her blistered feet.

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If nature really guided us or if the wind really sang, I asked myself, why hadn’t it told me where the train station was?

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After having smelled what seemed like a wagonload of creek pebbles, I finally got the tiny, subtle whiff of rain.

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Begging was a slam to our name and our beliefs.

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We’re all tired of fighting, but in order to achieve peace and attain the land and freedom we want, we need to fight.

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We could cook food, make tortillas, wash clothes, and in the meantime, you can start looking for a boy to take care of you.

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Fire engulfed the locomotive, and explosions spewed chunks of steel into the air.

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My inside turned and twisted like the dark, gnarled trees burning around us.

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If they give you any trouble when you get across the bridge, tell them I sent you. Show them the scarf.

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Soaked to the bone, we crawled down the iron tracks that glowed in the lightning.

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If the streets in America were paved in old, I thought, maybe every house looked like that too.

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Five centavos per person meant we’d need twenty centavos to get all of us across - about two days’ worth of earnings selling wood.

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Word had spread that the border was closed, and the packed streets soon thinned out.

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With the rebels gone, we were as vulnerable as in the desert, only this time we were trapped.

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Despite the beautiful music and the couple dancing, people shed more and more tears.

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I slipped into the nearest seat and , for a moment, pretended to be a student.

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It was a tiny hummingbird with bright-purple feathers that matched my scarf. I smiled at the tiny bird.

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I caught sight of the gate and saw people cramming through it, trampling those who fell.

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The deeper indentations, the ones I would cling to for life, had been formed by encounters with formidable people.

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My great-grandmother, despite the many decades having passed since that event, always recalled the fright in her father’s eyes.

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Barefoot Dreams of Petra Luna (Author’s Note)

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Then suddenly, my great-grandmother would say with nostalgic surprise, the gates swung open.

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Thanks to them and my mother, I learned stories that I would have never learned from books or school.

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We need to listen to their stories, write them down, on paper or on our hearts and pass them on.

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Barefoot Dreams of Petra Luna (Author’s Note)

2022-2023 NTB 3-6 (19 decks)

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