This chapter was very inspiring and very hopeful. Miguel heads into Argentina to shoot with the Chilean crew for the first time. After they shoot, they realize that it is after curfew and they must find somewhere to stay immediately. They end up driving to the nearest dirt road and they follow it until they reach a small house. As they pulled up, Miguel realizes that it was his childhood house and his mother still lived there. At the start of his journey, he was forbidden to see his mother because he would endanger her, but this was an exception according to him. At first, she did not recognize him, but after he let her in on his new identity, she was ecstatic. They talked all night and early the next morning she took Littin outside where he saw a small hut. It was an exact replica of Miguel's study house where he lived the day of the exile. Miguel says "I couldn't be sure whether my mother had created that painstaking reconstruction so that I would not miss my former home if I were to return one day, or whether it was left as to remember me by, should I die in exile" (Marquez 101).
I chose the picture above because I thought it really summed up the chapter and more so his mother's dream of his return. She never lost hope that one day her son would return again, and her optimistic attitude was very beneficial and her dreams became a reality. I think the girl in the picture is reaching for hope. The balloon is the hope that she is trying to hold on to just like Miguel's mother did for twelve long and painful years. On the wall in the picture, it says there is always hope, and that was the attitude of Miguel' mother.
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