¨We never Asked for wings¨ is a story about personal development, motherhood, and young love. Letty is a woman who became a mother as a teenager. She never told Wes, her love of adolescence. Letty’s parents, undocumented immigrants, raised her children while Letty combines three jobs to support her family. She loves her children, but she has been left out of raising them. When she was 33, her parents returned to Mexico, and for the first time in her life, Letty had to face the responsibilities of motherhood. She was a single mother, inexperienced as a mother, in a precarious economic situation, and a bartender work. Her little 6 years daughter Luna demanded care and attention. Letty was in panic and despair, and she didn’t think and drove to
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She has faced complex situations in her life and had had to take very hard decisions. Her son Alex, the fruit of her first love, did not know nothing about his father. Letty sacrificed her youth, her education, and her illusions to support her family. She gave Wes the chance to live the life he had planned; she exonerated him of any responsibility towards her and Alex. It was not the right decision, but she was very brave and sacrificed.
Alex, a smart kid, had so many things to dal with. He researched to find his father, he was in love with a classmate, and he was not very willing to accept her mother. He also grows up throughout the novel.
The mother of Alex's girlfriend, Carmen, also became pregnant as a teenager like Letty, but Carmen was 14 and not 18 as Letty. Carmen had no one to help her. She had to ran away from her family because they did not accept her pregnancy, and she had to cross the border with her baby in her arms. She moved forward. She raised her daughter completely along in a different country where her rights weren’t recognized for being an undocumented immigrant, with a different language, working, and taking care of her child. The story of Carmen impressed Letty. After all, Letty had a little more luck. This story of courage, achievement, and love for her child may have influenced the personal growth of
She has faced complex situations in her life and had had to take very hard decisions. Her son Alex, the fruit of her first love, did not know nothing about his father. Letty sacrificed her youth, her education, and her illusions to support her family. She gave Wes the chance to live the life he had planned; she exonerated him of any responsibility towards her and Alex. It was not the right decision, but she was very brave and sacrificed.
Alex, a smart kid, had so many things to dal with. He researched to find his father, he was in love with a classmate, and he was not very willing to accept her mother. He also grows up throughout the novel.
The mother of Alex's girlfriend, Carmen, also became pregnant as a teenager like Letty, but Carmen was 14 and not 18 as Letty. Carmen had no one to help her. She had to ran away from her family because they did not accept her pregnancy, and she had to cross the border with her baby in her arms. She moved forward. She raised her daughter completely along in a different country where her rights weren’t recognized for being an undocumented immigrant, with a different language, working, and taking care of her child. The story of Carmen impressed Letty. After all, Letty had a little more luck. This story of courage, achievement, and love for her child may have influenced the personal growth of