Why is it important?

 In the newest chapter that I have read there has been many signs of parallelism that how worried Patria is and how each of these of these things are.  She stated this like so "I saw tiny cells with very little air and no light. I heard the door open, I saw hands intrusive and ugly in their threats. I saw the crack of bones breaking, the thud of a body collapsing." (Alvarez 201) The author is trying to show how fearful she was of what was going on. This showed that when you were going to prison back then there was little of getting out alive by seeing how the people reacted and the show of importance to specific details. The seriousness of the situation in the chapter dropped to drastic levels. This shows a theme related to despair on how even in the most happy situations things always do not fall through. By doing this Alvarez  has shown the troubling times that people had to go through.

Yup I am glad that I never ended up in one of these.