Chrysalis/Pupa
Patria's life changed very instantly. She started out wanting to be a nun. All of the sudden, she was getting married to pedrito. She wanted to marry him because "At sixteen [...] we settled down for the rest of our lives"(Alvarez 148). She turned into a sex maniac, and she changed her nun-like ways abundantly. After she was married for a while, she and her husband, Pedrito, began having children. "My eighteenth year of marriage the ground of my well being began to give a little," and they had They had four children: Nelson Enrique, Noris Mercedes, Raul Ernesto, and Juan Antonio (who sadly died five months after his birth)(Alvarez 149). Patria changed very instanmtly between her childhood, and her teenage years.