![]() ![]() During their meeting, Lara let the driver who hit the back of her car go without an argument, she confessed she was not the one who was driving the car that killed Corrigan, she returned Corrigan’s belongings and attended his funeral. Maybe he realized she was not a bad person. I became more curious about Ciaran and why he felt an attraction to someone who was involved in his brother’s death. To be clearer, it was not their meeting, but more so their attraction for each other that drew me in. I was most intrigued by the intersection between Ciaran and Blaine. They are all scattered throughout New York, and a series of events unite them. We begin from the top of the world trade center to the deep ends of the Bronx. There is not only human connection but also geographical connection as well. There are about 70 connections between the characters throughout the book. The primary characters are Corrigan, Ciaran, Adelita, Claire, Jazlynn, Tillie, Gloria, Fernando, Blaine, Solomon and Sam. The hope that the mirror will respond back Joshua is not the deadest of them all. Maybe “Miro, miro on the wall,” is a representation of Claire’s hope. None of them fully accepted the death of their sons there was still a part of them that believed they would return. Was she asking about herself or her son? The group of women who had lost their sons in the war came together to share their stories as a source of comfort. However, I was not sure who Claire was referring to when she had asked who is the deadest of them all. She questioned “Miro, Miro, on the wall, who’s the deadest of them all?” (McCann 112) This line immediately made me think of Snow White, and the famous line that belonged to the evil queen, “mirror, mirror, on the wall, who’s the fairest of them all?” I knew well the evil Queen asked her mirror that question to reassure herself that she was the fairest of them all. He combined abstract art with surrealist fantasy when he produced his murals, tapestries, and sculptures.Īs the Sergeant explained how Joshua had passed in Vietnam, Claire stared at the prints above her couch with a forced smile. ![]() ![]() Joan Miro was a Spanish artist who derived his artistic style from his passion for poetry and his view of the modern world. ![]()
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