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Complicated anti-hero for our complicated times

scorpions are mentioned again! Antonio gets bit by a scorpion, and a Mockingbird marks him saying “you had them, you had them”

As Jaime continues to read the family history, he reflects on his family “ I knew, but I didn’t know the scope of it. they stole 180 tons of gold from the New World.. they obliterated an entire mountain in Bolivia, that was basically made of silver. And the Indians I killed millions.MILLIONS of Indians!’
‘’I’ killed?’’ ….’ you mean Sonoros?” (Romerio asks)

As Jaime continues to learn about his ancestry, he reads how Maria Rocha is no longer retelling history, but inserting herself first person into the family. She refers to often a “darkness” and the darkness begins to take human form.
“It is a documentation of the Genesis of evil in our world….,
The shadow man flitted through the narrative for thousands of years, cleave to the Sonoros in perpetuity.”

reoccurring images of a scorpion in this book.
“sympathy of a scorpion 🦂 “ this is how the range refers to Antonio Sonato when he’s addressing the men, devastated that his younger patriot ranger was murdered by him, just a child.”

Hell, he thought looked a lot like Texas 😆

“No one is too wicked for Grace.”. these are the words that abuelita/ciielita says to Antonio as he’s getting ready to leave her care. This may be the moral of the story?

The old lady says to him “kindness is its own reward, but cruelty is a self-inflicted wound”

The old lady who saves his life, his nephew finds him dying in the field. She is the one that Chris him “the bullet swallower“