Becoming+Naomi+Leon,+chapter+3

Becoming Naomi Leon (Chapter 3, A Lamentation of Swans) by Pam Munoz Ryan Chapter 3 is about when Naomi and her brother,Owen's great-grandmother,Gram tell the kids about Skyla,their mother, how she lived with Gram. Skyla's parents suffered a car accident when she was a teenager and died in the hospital. Skyla was then sent to live with her other grandparents.When Skyla lived with Gram, there wasn't much to do with her. Skyla met a man named Satiago.He looked liked a Latin singer Naomi sees in a magazine. Skyla and Satiago loved each other like crazy. They got married and had Naomi and Owen.They lived in a little studio apartment.Rosarito Beach so their dad could make money fishing, and their lots of money braiding people's hair on the beach. Later Skyla and Santiago divorced and Santiago moved and lived in Mexico, Skyla went to find a life and Naomi and Owen went to live with Gram. After Gram tells the story of Skyla and Santiago, Fabiola,Gram's friend, comes to watch Wheel of Fortune. Gram tells Fabiola about how Skyla returned. Fabiola says that she must tell Bernardo, her husband about Skyla's return,and that was going to mess up their 744 nights-in-a-row record.

Splendid and unknown word-widow, which means a woman whose husband is dead.

simile and metaphor: " a swan peering in the lake." It's trying to say that Gram looked like a swan dipping into the lake.