Summary and Analysis by Chapter

Chapters 12–14: Doce a Catorce

¿Qué pasa? What's the matter?

¡Ay Dios! Oh God!

¿Quién es? Who is it?

¡La mujer que no ha pecado es bruja, le juro a Dios! The woman who has not sinned is a witch, I swear to God!

¡Chinga tu madre! Screw your mother!

jodido one who is bad off in some way.

¡Mira! Look!

¿Qué pasa aquí? What's going on here?

¡Madre de Dios! Mother of God!

abrazo embrace, or hug.

the campo santo holy burial grounds; a cemetery.

mitote gossip; also a rambunctious dance.

¡Las putas! The whores!

Ah la verga — a reference to the penis.

¡Puto! a sodomite; also, a promiscuous man.

¡Te voy a matar, cabrón! I'm going to kill you, you jerk!

¡Hijo de tu chingada — ! Son of your screwed [mother] — !

¡Pinche — ! an expletive meaning damned, stingy, vile.

¡Por la madre de Dios! For the mother of God!

huevos balls, as in testes.

maldecido a cursed person.

¡Ay que diablo! Oh, what a devil!

Cabronas putas. Pimped whores.

diablas putas — . devilish whores — .

sangre blood.

¡Dios mío! My God!


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