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Sacrifices have been performed forever and a day since ancient times when people thought that a sacrifice of a human life would stop natural disasters from happening and not going on with that ritual was anger the gods they believed. Today we see sacrifices on our daily bases but not to the point of killing, more examples of today sacrifices will be a mother not eating to feed her kids or a boy that is very poor and have almost nothing sharing the food someone’s gave him with others, present sacrifices are not as extreme but they surely have a strong meaning that strengths the bond between that person that sacrifices and the person that receive, but not in all cases a sacrifice is seen the same way most of the time is perceive with negativity if the receiver is blind and is not inform about the sacrifice. …show more content…

Why would a mother ever leave her kids? What circumstances take her to it? One of the main characters, Lourdes, mother of the children Enrique and Belky that are leave behind by their mother because of economic reasons, these economic situations of not having …show more content…

My daily sacrifices are not as extremes as the ones of the book but it doesn’t express less whiling of performing the action in question. The actions I do and sacrifices made in life make me who I am or how I see the world and the way I react to the environment I am that is why I would never change

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