A modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, and more. Prologue-Part 1, Chapter 3. Part 1, Chapters Part 2. Part 3. Character Analysis. Important Quotes. Essay Topics. Discussion Questions. The narrative returns to three columns, each with a different narrator. Although Saturn is a third-person omniscient narrator able to access the thoughts and actions of all characters, first-person narrators cover the remaining two columns.
Federico de la Fe realizes that the force watching him is Saturn, the second largest planet of the solar system. Saturn notices this and knows that Federico is declaring war on him. The man blames Saturn for taking his wife away from him. Get access to this full Study Guide and much more!
He enlists members of the EMF gang to join his fight. Sandra, who is regularly beaten by her father, becomes the first woman to join the EMF. This, however, ends the intimate relationship between Sandra and Froggy. Although she hates her father, she cannot make love to the man who has killed him. Despite this, they remain comrades-in-arms in the war against Saturn. Meanwhile, Little Merced drops out of school to join the fight and accompanies her father as he goes to Tijuana in search of the discarded lead shells of the magically real mechanical tortoises.
Ignacio the Mechanic tells the story of Burn Collectors, people like Federico who have learned to treat their sadness and pain by burning themselves. The SuperSummary difference. This short chapter returns to paragraphs rather than columns and begins with a first-person limited narration by Froggy. Froggy visits a curandero to find a cure for unrequited love. He misses Sandra, just as Federico de la Fe misses Merced. Although the curandero is capable of many miracles, he cannot persuade Sandra to return to Froggy.
He does, however, give Froggy a paper bag filled with Oaxacan songbirds. Federico, however, remains disconsolate over the loss of his wife. As the chapter closes, Julietta arrives, and Froggy takes her home to listen to the songbirds and become his new lover.
