Final Lit Circle Blog

In the last part of the book that we were suppose to read Juan flees to Mexicali due to finding out that the Hotel deal was a trap. He gives his truck to Julio and his wife to flee as well but most importantly to shut up his annoying wife because how upset she was about the deal going bad. Juan leaves most of the barrels of whisky in a hiding spot where he was watching the hotel. The rest of the barrels that he had left he took with him towards Mexicali. When heading down there he stopped at the gas station and met a man and offered him his car and the rest of the barrels of whisky to take him to Mexicali. The man agreed and took him to Mexicali and Juan told him he was heading to Jalisco never ever to return back so that the man could tell that to investigators if they ever questioned him about Juan. Later on in the chapter Juan returns back to find out Julio and his wife are stealing his liquor but doesn't worry because he's going to let them fall into the law hands so he can start a new life. He later runs into Archie where he is questioned about the two people blown up in his car and if he was the one who did it. Juan explains everything then Archie agrees to give Juan a new name (Salvador) and a fresh start in life so he can marry Lupe. Then Juan and Lupe finally begin their courtship preparing themselves for a wedding they have been waiting all their lives. Then in the following chapter Lupe's group once again wasn't paid the same amount as men. Once Lupe sisters hear about this they create a strike and have the foreman pay everyone at the same scale. When this was accomplished Lupe and her sister feel that if they stick together they can attain their goal of equality to some degree. Then later in the chapter Mark ask Lupe if she has decided to become his wife but Lupe didn't know what to say. Lupe decides to tell Mark she still needs time before she can accept. When Lupe is having her time to decide Juan and her are finally alone and from that time forward she knew that she wanted to marry Juan. Now in chapter 20 Salvador offers Lupe to drive and once Lupe finished driving her little niece goes up to them and asks them if they're going to get married. Lupe gets quite embarrassed when this happens, but Salvador says that they are and that becomes the request for Lupe's hand in marriage. Then from this chapter on Salvador is preparing himself for the biggest day of his life but runs into a couple of bumps. One of them was Salvador and his brother going to jail because his brother couldn't handle staying at the house where they were making alcohol and got caught up because he bragged to an undercover cop when he was drunk about the illegal operation they were running. Salvador is bailed out but his brother was sentenced for three years. The other major bump Salvador went through was to not hate his own race because if he couldn't he would lose Lupe and mistreat his own kids. But Juan changed knowing that if he wanted to live a happy life with Lupe he had to change so he did and got married with Lupe.