Journal Entery

Date: October 23, 2007

Entery Number: 18

Page/Quote reflecting on: Pgs. 105-110

Between all these pages we met a mean evil guy named Marco who is a women hater, according to Esther. He was very rough with Esther and gave her at least five bruises. One for each finger. At this club they started playing South American music and Marco loves to tango, which is what the song was. Esther doesn't know how to dance to that music and says no but he forces her to dance. Later on, outside, he pushes her to the ground, in the mud, and then tears her dress and calls her a slut.(He tries to force himself on her basically.) She bites, kicks, and punches him. For drawing blood, he demands that she give the diamond back that he gave her. He is a real creep with problems. He said he loved his first cousin but he can't have her because she is his first cousin and she is becoming a nun. SHe knew he loved her, though. Ether tells him, "If you love her...you'll love somebody else someday." That's when he pushed her to the ground. He's a lost hypocrite. He loves his cousin and hates the sluts but he is willing to sleep with them. It's interesting that he only called her a slut until after Esther let him tear her dress, revealing bare skin. Somewhere else in the book it says that a guy will want to have sexual relationships with women but after she has given in, he loses respect for her. SO it is interesting when Marco says, "Sluts, all sluts." Marco was a real jerk but he had a little deeper purpose.