Agosín, M., O'Connor, E. M., &
White, L. (2014). I lived on Butterfly Hill. New York: Atheneum Books
for Young Readers.
Celeste witnesses as her country and life go from what she
considered perfect and beautiful to chaotic and confusing. Her many questions
as to what is taking place are not answered and leave her feeling trapped in a
world of confusion. Explaining war to children is never easy, especially that
for unseen reasons, in order to stay safe, a family has to part ways. As an
adult, one struggles to understand politics and war, imagine how much more
difficult it is for a child. How will Celeste ever understand the sacrifice
that her family makes to save her life.
As a child I never saw violence in Piedras Negras. We didn't move to the United States because we were running away from political issues, but now as an adult it saddens me tremendously to see how the city that saw me grow up has been afflicted with so much. The Zetas and the military and drugs and people getting killed because they belonged to a cartel, or even people getting killed because they were at the wrong place and at the wrong time is simply terrifying. I can't even begin to imagine what Celeste felt...
As a child I never saw violence in Piedras Negras. We didn't move to the United States because we were running away from political issues, but now as an adult it saddens me tremendously to see how the city that saw me grow up has been afflicted with so much. The Zetas and the military and drugs and people getting killed because they belonged to a cartel, or even people getting killed because they were at the wrong place and at the wrong time is simply terrifying. I can't even begin to imagine what Celeste felt...
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