1)      The setting is in school and during the night

2)      The main characters are Maria and Frankie

3)      The conflict is that she is a good girl and she wants to act bad

4)      The word lonely is important because she has no help from anyone and she is basically the mother to her brother and sister

5)      The promise is the one that Maria made to her Mother that she will stay in school and get a good education, this promise is important because that is what is going to get her through life.

6)        A great example of following your dreams and keeping your word even if others are pressuring you to break it is in this story. In the story “Dead End” by Rudolf Anaya it tells us about a girl named Maria and explains how she is tied between becoming popular and losing everything that she has work so hard on getting or keeping the promise she made to her mother.  It also tells us how hard her life is without her mother. She makes a promise to her dying mother Maria promised to “She would not give up her dreams of getting an education.” By making this promise challenging her to get a good education, she faces her hardest challenge yet. The challenge is turning bad for the boy she likes or continues being good and hope the boy still likes her. The boy Maria likes is a bad boy because even her little brother says, “He’s the baddest dude in the Barrio”. Maria is a good girl because Maria says” she didn’t want to disappear she wanted her life to have a meaning and that meant keeping to her mother’s dream”. What she is saying is that she will not ruin her mother’s dream for a boy. This also means that when she dies she wants to leave a good legacy. This come to show that only you can change your life and only you can give it a meaning.