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“That was the year of the floods, which were immortalized in schoolchildren’s textbooks and in their grandparents’ memories. . . .a series of minor temblors, which came like God’s wrath, finished destroying everything . . .” (38-39). “Two hundred years earlier, a devastating earthquake . . .”(40) This quote from the book shows how earthquakes and floods took place in Chile and how it caused many Chileans to leave their homes.
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“ . . .rich veins of silver and gold were discovered in the north” (65). This quote explains how after natures disasters there was mounds of silver and gold discovered in the Andes mountains north of the Chilean towns the Sommers live in.