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A Time of Miracle
This section starts off with one of the paymasters not wanting to pay Lupe and the rest of the women what they deserved for working in the fields, he used the excuse that it would be an insult for men. Tired of being treated like this Sophia called for a meeting between the workers, he told them than since they were going to live in the United States and going back to Mexico was just a dream they had to make their bosses treat them with respect, the men in the meeting disagreed with Sophia saying that they were going back to Mexico, but other women in the crowd backed up Sophia and so the men had to listen. After a week of seeing their workers not doing any work and not being able to find any other people to replace them, the bosses gave in and agreed to pay both men and women equally. After a some time, Maria’s first husband, Esabel, came back to her, she took him back but kept his other husband, Andres, many people including her family thought of her decision to be wrong. Lupe, Carlota and Victoriano decided that their parents should not be allowed to work anymore because they were old. Victoriano learned to drive and bought their first truck because after the strike, the labor contractors in town didn’t want much to do with Sophia and her family. Mark offered Lupe a job helping his uncle with his bookkeeping. After coming back from the library Lupe noticed that there was not one in at her house and remembering how her brother always told her that women were not supposed to drive she decided to go against what he had told her and teach herself to drive, while Salvador saw her doing this, he realized that his “angel” had some evil in her and this made him love her more. After the mess she made Lupe and Salvador talked and both shared their dreams and their life experience, Lupe was stunned and excited for no one had ever asked her about her dreams. Since Victoriano and his father didn’t a job for sometime, they worked with Salvador moving manure until he (Salvador) told them that he had other business he had to take care of and so they work alone. After working five days with Epitacio, making the liquor, they had to hide it but on their way there they got “robbed” by Ten Mexican cowboys and Archie. Doña Margarita had the idea of going to Chicago to find her lost son, a day before she was supposed to leave, her son Domingo showed up with a woman named Nelly. During this time Lupe became very ill and was unable to go to work for a couple of days. Once Lupe was healthy again Salvador showed up to where she was working and gave her the keys to his car so she could practice her driving skills. That same night Lupe and Salvador kissed for the first time. Harry took Salvador to a store which was owned by his brother to buy a wedding ring for Lupe. Lupe decided to tell Mark that she was in love with another man and he promised her that he was going to fight for her. Domingo brought Salvador many problems because he was stubborn, he didn’t not listed to him after he had told him not no make a big fuzz while they were in the distillery so the neighbors wouldn’t call the cops. Salvador and Domingo were beaten up by the feds and sent to jail, Salvador lost all of his money and saw that none of his so called friends let him borrow money and the last people he would have thought were going to help him out did. Salvador was able to get back on his feet and proposed to Lupe with the help of Father Ryan. Lupe and her family accepted Salvador’s proposal, she told him that he wanted the first years of their marriage to live alone just the two of them. Lupe met Salvador’s mother, Doña Margarita for the first time. A couple of days before the wedding Febronio and two of his son came to Salvador’s house to congratulate him and they brought him a goat, he killed the goat and told them go away. Doña Margarita who saw the whole thing through a window talked to Salvador and told him that he needed to let go of all the hate he had inside of him because it would give him problems throughout his marriage. Salvador apologized to Febronio. On their way to the wedding, Salvador got pulled over by a couple of Indians, they told him that he was under arrest all because he didn’t invite Archie at the wedding. Since he didn’t have another option he told Archie that he was welcome to join them to the celebration. Lupe and Salvador got married, they had the reception at Lupe’s Parents home and everyone was enjoyed themselves.