- The protagonist thought her mother died because Madonna cried.
- On the way to prison, an old woman carrying leeches asked to see her Madonna and asked where she is from. The old woman introduced her a place where she can buy food for the person she is going to see in the prison.
- The protagonist bought food and went to the prison which was built by American Marines during the occupation.
- She saw her mother, who had grown even thinner and looked more gaunt.
- During the visit, she said nothing but just handed her mother the Madonna and the food.
- When her mother knew the Madonna had cried, she began sobbing herself.
- The prisoners there were shaved every week and forced to throw cold water at each other for preventing them from gaining enough heat to grow wings and fly away.
- All the women there were arrested for the same reason: a person had accused them of causing the death of a child and a few others agreed with the story.
- The day before her mother was arrested, her mother helped to look after her friend’s baby who was sick from colic. The next day when she woke up, her mother was hit by the mob who accused her mother of killing her friend’s baby and her mother was dragged by the police.
- When Josephine was five, she went on a pilgrimage to the Massacre River, where thousands of Haitians were murdered. At the night her grandmother was taken from her mother, she was given birth. - Before leaving, Josephine tried to embrace her mother but her mother pushed her away and asked to her to visiter her again soon and I nodded.
- The next time when she visited her mother, Manman had a cough.
- When she went again, before she decided to say something, her mother cried, refused to take the Madonna and asked her to keep it for consoling her when she was completely gone.
- A week later, an old woman named Jacqueline stopped by her house and said she had been to the river with her. She told her the death of her mother.
- They rushed to the prison and heard the news that her mother’s body will be burned this afternoon. They went to her mother’s cell and took all her personal things.
- She remembered a day of the massacre in 1937, her mother had often told, she leaped from Dominican soil into the water and out on the Haitian side with Josephine inside her body.
- In the prison yard, she held the Madonna and raised her head toward the sun thinking, one day she may see her mother there.
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