Patria Changes

As I finished reading chapter eight I noticed a dramatic change in Patria. Patria went from being a good religious women who doesn't want anything to do with the revolution against Trujillo to now wanting to join. Patria changes while on a church retreat. Patria witnesses a young boy shot and killed while attempting to hide from Trujillo's soldiers. The boy reminds Patria of her own child Norris. "His eyes found mine just as the shot hit him square in the back. I saw the wonder on his young face as the life drained out of him, and I thought, Oh my God,  he's one of mine!" (Alvarez 162) . Patria feels that this is one of her own children and makes her leave this experience as "a changed women", carrying the dead boy. She now feels that she can sit back and watch Trujillo continue on doing his horrible tactics she must help put an end to it and join the revolution against Trujillo. I must go now Tobias needs me goodbye for now.