Aguantando takes place in the Dominican Republic. The narrative of the story Aguantando is written in first person point of view. Aguantando is about a very poor family of two boys, a mother and a grandfather. The two boys and the mother where abandon by the father, who promise them several times that he will migrate them to the United States. Myles’ metaphor can be interpreted as a way of dealing with difficult times and learning how to live with these situations. Like in her poem it states that, “roads around mountains cause we can’t drive through” this is a great metaphor for the story that I choose to analyze because in this story this family goes through ups and downs. This might reflect the part of the poem that talks about roads on the