In the vignette “ What Sally Said,’’ the reader is introduced to Sally, a middle school girl who gets beaten by her father everyday nonstop. Sally goes to school with bruises all over her, leading her to not respect herself. Sally’s father says ‘’you're not my daughter you’re not my daughter and then broke into his hands’’(93). On Page 92, it states, ‘’ He never hits me hard. She says her mama rubs lard on places where it's hurts. Then at school she’d say she fell.’’ Sally goes to school and lies to her friends, saying that the bruises caused by her falling off stuff but it's really her dad. Sally’s mother told her to spend the night at Esperanza house where her father goes and gets sally and bring her back home because she loves him. Until
