Motorcycle Ride on the Sea of Tranquility MVP

In the novel of “Motorcycle Ride on the Sea of Tranquility,” the author Patricia Santana, writes about a Mexican American family in the sixties. In chapter nineteen, Yolanda and her neighborhood friends and family gathered around in the middle of Conifer Street. They all gathered up to play hide-in-go-seek under a full moon on an October night. They each had to have a partner to hide with. In this chapter we realized that Chuy had a metal problem

Lydia and Yolanda were hiding together next to a bush, waiting for the seeker to try and find them. Yoli and Lydia were both nervous that they will be “IT”, but in the time of Yoli and Lydia were hiding they heard a loud scream from a girl. Everyone got scared by the unexpected scram that came from Marisa. It turned out Chuy was trying to get to Marisa, but she rejected him and she was hurt really bad. She had a broken rib and her nose trying to get away from Chuy. After that, everyone ran towards the scream and saw that Marisa was beaten up and filled with blood. Then the neighbors started to attack Chuy for causing harm to Marisa. Chuy then left running without telling anyone and Yoli was the one worried about his big brother leaving, and not knowing where he was heading. I feel that this is an important chapter because Chuy had an emotional breakdown and tried to get at Marisa, but he ended up causing harm to her. However, what really surprised me was that Marisa wasn’t mad at Chuy for what he did. She understood that he was okay and that he needed help.

This part on the story made Chuy seem like a horrible person, and has no feelings for anyone. However, in reality Chuy is a lost and confused Veteran that needs help to be himself again, but what it really like is that Yoli still loves Chuy no matter what he has done. Yoli understands that Chuy isn’t okay and she is fine with it, but still tries to help him.