Alex Espinoza Still Water Saints - Book Report/Review Example

Most of the chapter occurs at Shawn's and Beady's apartment and the electronics store where Shawn works. During the chapter, Shawn visits a tattoo shop and a buys a candle from next door to help get rid of someone. That someone is Beady's new girlfriend, Daisy. Shawn refers to her as the scab, and does not like her. She has a little child, who is likely mistreated and under-cared. Other minor characters in the chapter include Bill and Karen, Shawn's managers, and Mark the new rookie employee.From Shawn's viewpoint Beady's new girlfriend starts to make a nuisance of herself.

In Shawn's estimation, she is destructive and will only interfere in their lives; his feelings are justified as she makes a pass at him and leaves in a huff when she is rebuked. Beady convinces Shawn to let Daisy participate in their defrauding of the electronics store. Unfortunately, Daisy wrecks things, as she takes a large ticket item, a printer instead of the less expensive, easily missed items. Eventually, this leads to Shawn being fired from his job.Rodrigo Zamora decides to leave home to make is fortune eventually in California.

His parents tell him to go Tijuana to potentially stay with relatives. Unfortunately, they have left. There, Rodrigo meets Felix, who seems to want to help Rodrigo but uses him sexually. Felix, is a confused man whose wife is pregnant and demands Rodrigo leave so that he may no longer be tempted. Rodrigo runs into Chino who takes him to gay bar run by the dangerous Ignacio. There Rodrigo meets Dwight, another repressed individual sexually who takes Rodrigo across the border and into California.

There Dwight severely mistreats Rodrigo, defiling him and raping him. Eventually, Rodrigo escapes and manages to seek assistance from Perla. Perla desperately wants to help the boy; however, Shawn and Beady scare him off. Despite a desperate search, he is never found. Introduce a quote related to a theme and correctly set it out: Chapter 10: In the tattoo shop, the artist inquires as to what Shawn is thinking about, referring to a possible new tattoo, and Shawn poignantly responds, "Maybe something religious.

I'm thinking about changing my ways." Chapter 11: While running away from a man who had thrown a rock at her, Perla realizes that she running through eucalyptus branches. She thinks, "Balms, I could make an ointment with those branches. Doesn't matter if they're coated with train and car exhaust. It could work." Respond to the quote: Chapter 10: One theme is this work is the role that religious intervention can play in the lives of people, whether they believe it or not. Directly after this interchange Shawn purchases a candle from "an old lady" in a shop in order to assist Shawn in helping to get of someone, namely Daisy.

The concept of redemption and recovery are important themes in this work and are played out in a number of forms. Chapter 11: Perla desperately wants to help this child. Moreover, she is a saint in a dirty town, with dirty people and dirty habits, and yet through all this, she still can find the good parts, she can still make it work. Even though the town is coated with filth, morally and physically, there are still methods available to her to heal wounds, if only those who needed help would stay.

Respond to another issue in the chapter: Chapter 10: The chapter's title, "Taking Stock," is an interesting play on words. One, it refers to