Quiz Waiting for Snow in Havana

3 conflicts:

1. One conflict in the book was the struggle between life in the United States and Cuba. In Cuba cars could drive on a road that is extremely dangerous and would never be allowed in the United States, but also Cuba has hardly any freedom, they have almost no rights.

2. Another Conflict is that they had to leave Cuba and come to the United States.

3. The conflict of being raised under communism and trying to live your life normally, while so much is going on around you that you might not even know.

3 motifs:

1. The Lizards: they represent the helplessness of the Cubans under dictatorship

2. The chimpanzee-Blackie : represents how the Cubans were trapped and they could try to do whatever they want to escape but it was rare and hard to do and often they were caught.

3. Peter Pan-he thought Peter pan was the worst tight-wearing hero ever, but ultimately he arrived on the Pedro Pan flights.

1 major 1 minor theme

1. Helplessness, under dictatorship their freedom was absolutely limited

2. The Unknown or naivety , they didn’t know what was going on outside of their own little bubble of childhood, they knew bits and pieces of what was going on, but never completely understood or even cared, they proceeded with their lives and games.

2 moments childhood unexpected but relate to the theme

1. There was a moment when he was saying how the sound of the bombs and the gunshots were soothing and he wished one was close to his home. This shows that he was somewhat naïve and just a child who didn’t really realize a bomb meant peoples’ lives were being taken from them, to him it was just a sound with no meaning.

2. When he thinks he will be shot for accidentally knocking over Batista’s sons popcorn. He is so unaware of the different levels of what is wrong and what is right.
Theme of forgiveness or humor
Humor was used in circumstances like his memories of getting drunk when he was so young. He was too young to even know that he was drunk or he drank alcohol, he just knew the world had become a better place when he drank the champagne.