Do you ever wonder why people leave? In the novel Everyone Leaves the main character Nieve, asks herself this question frequently. Life is very difficult, and Nieve knows this first hand. Nieve is a young girl who grew up in Cienfuegos, Cuba. Nieve has had many difficulties in her life but she has always found a way to cope with them. One big way she deals with her problems is to write in her diary. Even though everyone around her leaves her diary stays with her no matter what, and she pours all of her thoughts into it. Nieve’s life is very challenging because she has to deal with an abusive father and she is always being forced to move somewhere else.
In Everyone Leaves the main character Nieve has to deal with being forced to leave and her heinous father. An example of this Would be when the judge told Nieve she had to live with her father. Guerra writes, “The verdict came down two hours later. For the next three years I have to live with my father and his theater group up in the Escambray mountain range, far from the sea and the lagoon”(25). This shows how …show more content…
One piece of evidence to support this would be when her father hit her out of nowhere. Guerra writes, “ It had been 3 days since I went to school. Then my father hit me, out of the blue, and my head smashed against the table. I thought I’d lost an eye”(41). What this evidence shows is that Nieve is still having problems with her dad beating her. Another piece of evidence that shows her being forced to move places was when she had to go to this center for kids. Guerra writes, “ They didn’t let me stay home. My mother didn’t want me to either, which is why I’m at this center for re education of minors”(74). What this piece of evidence proves is that Nieve was always being forced to move somewhere else even though she did not want to
In Everyone Leaves the main character Nieve has to deal with being forced to leave and her heinous father. An example of this Would be when the judge told Nieve she had to live with her father. Guerra writes, “The verdict came down two hours later. For the next three years I have to live with my father and his theater group up in the Escambray mountain range, far from the sea and the lagoon”(25). This shows how …show more content…
One piece of evidence to support this would be when her father hit her out of nowhere. Guerra writes, “ It had been 3 days since I went to school. Then my father hit me, out of the blue, and my head smashed against the table. I thought I’d lost an eye”(41). What this evidence shows is that Nieve is still having problems with her dad beating her. Another piece of evidence that shows her being forced to move places was when she had to go to this center for kids. Guerra writes, “ They didn’t let me stay home. My mother didn’t want me to either, which is why I’m at this center for re education of minors”(74). What this piece of evidence proves is that Nieve was always being forced to move somewhere else even though she did not want to