Estrella’s most memorable childhood friend. Maxine comes from a family of white migrant laborers known for rough behavior and even criminality – she owns a trove of comic books that her brothers have stolen and on first visiting her cabin, Estrella notes that the family’s mattress is covered in urine stains. The girls become close when Estrella reads out the comics to Maxine, who is illiterate. However, after Maxine insults Petra and she and Estrella have a fistfight, the farm’s foreman evicts Estrella’s family while letting the Devridges stay. This abrupt end to their friendship shows that while the conditions of migrant labor harm laborers of all races, Estrella’s family’s Latino ethnicity makes them subject to additional injustices.
Maxine Devridge Quotes in Under the Feet of Jesus
The Under the Feet of Jesus quotes below are all either spoken by Maxine Devridge or refer to Maxine Devridge. 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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Chapter One
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You think ‘cause of the water our babies are gonna come out with no mouth or something? Estrella asked, pushing up her sleeves. She lay on her stomach and dipped her bandana into the water. The cool water ran over her fingers and over the gravel like velvet.
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Maxine Devridge Quotes in Under the Feet of Jesus
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Chapter One
Quotes
You think ‘cause of the water our babies are gonna come out with no mouth or something? Estrella asked, pushing up her sleeves. She lay on her stomach and dipped her bandana into the water. The cool water ran over her fingers and over the gravel like velvet.
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