Summary
In my book “The Pregnancy Project:
A memoir” we meet a young girl named Gaby Rodriguez and her family; they live
in a small town in Washington State. I
barley started reading yesterday but I will read more throughout the week. So
far I have read about Gaby’s complex family. It starts off with her mom. Her
mom has seven children Nievitas, Genaro, Sonya, Fabian tony and Jessica. She
had her first child at age 14. Her, her husband, and family are living a happy
life until she finds out that her husband is having an affair. She forgives him the first time but the second
time she doesn’t because she contacted a disease from him. She then tells him
that they are getting divorce. When they do the husband files a petition for
full custody of the kids. The father won because the mother couldn’t afford an
attorney. So with that she can’t see the kids very often, only 3 hours a week.
Later she leaves town with a friend. She meets a guy and spends a night
together. Later she finds out that he has family in Mexico. So she leaves him
to live with her mother. Meanwhile the husband meets a girl and sells
everything he owns to move to Walla Walla, Washington State. Leaving 2 kids with
his friends, and the other 2 with his mom, while he takes the youngest,
Jessica. The two oldest left to live their own life. She finds out and takes
them back she goes and looks for Jessica. When she finds her she demanded him
to give Jessica back. He didn’t really
care and gave Jessica up. After a week or two she finds out she is pregnant
with Gaby. Once Gaby starts growing up
Gaby notices that all of her siblings and her mom have gotten pregnant at age
14-19. Nievitas keeps on telling her to be the one that makes their mom proud. I believe
this book takes place in the present. Is Gaby going to make her mother proud?
Conflict
In my book that I’ve started
reading was “The Pregnancy Project: A Memoir”, has a lot of conflicts but one
that really stuck out was an external conflict, I believe it is Man vs.
Man. Gaby was 11 when this happened. All
of Gaby’s siblings had the similar obstacle they had to face. They all had
responsibilities. They all had to take are of a child or more. The youngest child,
Jessica had a baby, Carlos, then later has twins. Jessica was still young and
like to party. She would ask her oldest sister that she lived with if she can
babysit; she would always say “no”. Since Gaby lived next to them with her
grandma and mom. Jessica would always ask Gaby to baby sit. I know this because
in text her mom yells at her in page 32, it says, “This is your responsibility, not Gaby’s! She is just a child. You had
this baby, and now its time to grow up and act like a mother. You can’t keep
leaving Carlos with her. You have to stop going out and parting. That part of
your life is over.” This proves that
even the mother was annoyed with this. Gaby also says that “This isn’t fair”, which proves that she
got annoyed. I mean who wouldn’t be.
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