Faith is something the author lacks as she only sees herself as a rebellious child. However, this changes when he realizes that he shares a special bond with his grandmother, rather than caring for her out of obligation. In the last scene, the author watches her grandmother slowly die and cries with “sobs emerging from the depths of anguish,” finally realizing that she actually had a very close relationship with her grandmother, developing a kind of respect. The author had always felt her grandmother's gray eyes watching over here, like a safety net, for every move she made (Viramontes