Cándido and América’s infant daughter, born in a toolshed just outside the wall surrounding the Arroyo Blanco Estates. Socorro’s name means “help” in Spanish. Socorro is born blind, which América believes is the result of José Navidad having raped her. Socorro is lost and presumably drowned in a flood at the very end of the novel.
Socorro Quotes in The Tortilla Curtain
The The Tortilla Curtain quotes below are all either spoken by Socorro or refer to Socorro. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Part 3, Chapter 8
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América was screaming and the baby was screaming and he could hear his own voice raised in a thin mournful drone, and that was nothing compared to the shrieks of the uprooted trees and the nightmarish roar of the boulders rolling along beneath them.
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Socorro Quotes in The Tortilla Curtain
The The Tortilla Curtain quotes below are all either spoken by Socorro or refer to Socorro. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Part 3, Chapter 8
Quotes
América was screaming and the baby was screaming and he could hear his own voice raised in a thin mournful drone, and that was nothing compared to the shrieks of the uprooted trees and the nightmarish roar of the boulders rolling along beneath them.
Related Characters:
Related Themes:
Page Number and Citation:
Explanation and Analysis:
