Day 5

Heroes and Saints Lesson Plan

Discussion of Thought Questions

  1. 1

    Why does Cerezita want to engage sexually with Juan? Why has she never tried this with anyone else? Explain.

    Strong responses will recall that Cerezita said that her interest in Juan has to do with the fact that it would help her feel like she has the body she never truly got to have. It's likely that she would have tried to engage sexually with others (given that she's a teenager and experiencing the same things most teenagers would do hormonally, just without a body to do anything with those feelings), but Dolores never let her be around anyone. When Juan enters the picture, he is allowed to see Cerezita because he's a priest. Aside from the fact that he's the only...

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