7/8/2023 0 Comments Heart of darkness cliff notes![]() The tzapame give them several strange leather amulets with feathers, animal teeth, bones, etc. To save her, the twins must attempt to descend through the nine layers of the Underworld along a path called the Black Road, a dangerous trek that could cost them their lives. One of them, a former human called Pingo, tells them the truth about their mother: she has been abducted by dark forces and taken into Mictlán, the Underworld. There they are approached by the tzapame, the Little People. They take turns keeping watch at night and discover that Johnny becomes a jaguar and Carol, a Mexican wolf.ĭrawn by various clues, the twins visit the García Caves in the nearby mountain El Fraile, in Cumbres de Monterrey National Park. They are in the early stages of nagualism, shifting unintentionally during their sleep. At the family’s ancestral home, the twins’ grandmother gives them their mother’s journal, and they learn the truth about themselves: they are naguales, shapeshifters. When school breaks for summer, their father packs them off for Monterrey, Mexico, to stay with their mother’s family while he seeks professional help for his deepening depression. This suspicion is made more sinister by the strange dreams and behavior that both Carol and Johnny begin to experience. ![]() ![]() Oscar Garza, a professor of history-is convinced she left him the twins suspect foul play of some sort. Shortly after their 12th birthday, their mother disappears. Carolina and Juan Ángel “Johnny” Garza are twins living in a small Texas town on the US-Mexican border. ![]()
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