Essay - Thirteen Senses is an Interesting Novel that Traces that Lives...

thirteen senses is an interesting novel that traces that lives of author's parents who it appears experience rather turbulent times yet through it all, they stayed together. It is their fifty years together that offers some valuable lesions on love *****d trust and on the instituti***** of marriage. The book is based on the ***** of the Villasenor couple but it reads more like a guidebook on love and *****. The book could have been subtitled, how to make a marriage last. This is because there are some many pearls ***** marital w*****dom interspersed in the ***** that one wonders if ***** was anything else that the Mejicanos ever talked about apart from discussing psychology of men and women.

The book opens with the author attending the 50th wedding anniversary ***** his parents where the couple is asked to repeat ***** marriage vows. This sets the tone for ***** rest of the book as the author observes his parents on t***** auspicious occ*****i*****: " Sunlight streamed in through the large windows behind Salvador ***** Lupe as the priest continued his words. People's eyes filled with tears. ***** was a magic moment, ***** everyone in the room just knew that God's bless*****g ***** with them...T***** was the key of living between a man and a wo*****... after fifty ***** of ***** to kiss and ***** again with an open heart and soul!" The author is not certain if it was ***** that kept h***** parents toge*****r for 50 years. "Was ***** love? Had it ever re*****y been love?" He believes that trust probably played a bigger role in gluing this rel*****tionship than love. "Trust, she could now see was, indeed, a very big word...maybe even larger than Love." This is because the author believes that there were so many occasions in his parent's adventurous life when her mot***** could ***** left her husband since he was engaged in a d*****ngerous occupation. She could have felt betrayed and this ***** result in the death of what turned out to be a very strong relationship. But in those moments of despair, his mother Lupe didn't let her faith in her ***** ***** God waver.

***** (2001) writes: "Thirteen Senses" is a powerful story of strength and love, hardship and pain. ***** follows the lives of Salvador and Lupe Villasenor, a young Mejicano couple living in Southern Cali*****nia ***** the 1920s. The author uses fact as ***** basis for ***** fiction, building on Salvador's ***** Lupe's lives to em*****llish their experiences. Salvador is a whiskey bootlegger ***** carries a gun and has no problem scaring the daylights out of his rivals in order ***** protect his territory. Lupe is a be*****utiful, *****-fear*****g girl ***** her virtue intact, her morals in the church-approved place and not a clue th*****t ***** betrothed brews alcohol for a living."

***** two older women in the book, M*****rgarita and Guadalupe, represent Indian wisdom that ***** strange to a modern reader. How***** since Indian culture is *****ly different from Anglo