Parrot in the Oven mi vida

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Parrot in the Ovenmi vida

• A novel by
• Victor Martinez

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Awards

• National Book Award WINNER

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Characters

• Manuel Main character
• Nardo Manuels older brother
• Mom and Dad Manuels parents
• Magda and Pedi Manuels Sisters

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Plot Diagram

Climax
Conflict
Rising Actions
Resolution
Basic Situation
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Basic Situation

• Nardo and Manny are picking
• chilies in the field when the
• I.N.S arrive. The I.N.S arrest
• the illegals and Manny and
• Nardo hide from the I.N.S
• until they leave. They take all
• the chili peppers and sell them
• for money.
  

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• Rising Actions
• Mannys dad takes all the
• money they earned and left
  
• to Ricos pool house
• (a bar in town) and spent
• all their money

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• Conflict
• Mannys dad has been at the pool hall for one
  week without going home.
• His Wife gets worried and goes to the pool hall
  to bring him home.
• She embarrasses him in front of all his friends.
• Sixteen year old Magda gets pregnant without her
  dad noticing.

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Climax

• When they get home, Manuels mom decides to go
  to a friends house to do her hair. After a few
  minuets, her husband appears in the window with a
  gun. He starts shooting but cant hit her. A
  neighbor called the cops and when they arrived,
  Mannys dad hid the gun but still got arrested.
  When he got out of jail, both Mannys dad and mom
  decided never to embarrass or hurt each other
  again.

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Resolution

• Will Mannys parents hold their promise? What
  will happen to Magda? Will their lives ever be
  the same?

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About the Author

• Victor Martinez was born in Fresno, California,
  the forth of a family of twelve children. He has
  worked jobs as a field laborer, welder, truck
  driver, firefighter, teacher, and office clerk.
  

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The End!!