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=**__Summary:__**= "The Day it Happened" by Rosario Morales is a story about a young girl who is watching a girl Josie who lives in her apartment complex move out. The story mainly takes place outside the apartment complex on the street but some of it is what goes on while in the apartment. Josie has decided to leave her husband Ramon because he is abusive and Josie is pregnant and is in fear for the well being of her baby to come. Everyone is standing outside while Josie is in a taxi waiting to leave and saying her goodbyes until Ramon shows up. Josie begin to explain to Ramon that she is leaving him because he beats her and she doesn't want to bring a baby into that kind of situation. Ramon eventually realizes what is going on and begs her to stay saying he can't live without her and he'd kill himself if she left. What Ramon says exactly is "Don't go." "You're too young to understand." "We're married for life." "I'll love you always." "I'll kill myself, I swear it." (308). At the end she still decides it is better for her and her baby to leave, so she does.

=__**Topics:**__= Some of the topics addressed in "The Day it Happened" are: strength, love, fear of abuse, heartache, and pride.

=__**Evaluation:**__= Out of the stories we've read in class and the stories we've found to read on our own I really enjoyed "The Day it Happened" by Rosario Morales. I feel I enjoyed this story more than the others because it showed how Josie overcame everything that was happening to her and decided what was best for her and her baby in spite that she was married and the baby belonged to her husband. Josie was abused by her husband not just physically but verbally as well. I have had friends in situations where they've been abused by their partners and were too afraid to leave. For me I would never let such a thing go so far to the point where my life would be put in harms way no matter how much love I have for the person. Josie did love Ramon but after everything he had put her through she still showed the strength to say goodbye even with a baby on the way and becoming a single mother. Often women in a situation like this usually don't leave their partner because they are afraid of what is to come. They become afraid of what is to come next, like if it makes their partner mad, the situation could worsen or if they decide to leave their partner will come after them and they will never be safe. In this case, Josie didn't seem to care. She just knew she had to get out of the situation for her safety along with her baby's and hope that if Ramon loves her as much as he claims he does, he'll set her and the baby free because it is what's best for both Josie and the baby.

=__**Citation:**__= Morales, Rosario. "The Day it Happened." //Literature: Literature and the Writing Process.// Ed. Elizabeth McMahan et. al. 10th ed. Boston: Pearson, 2014. 306-308. Print.

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 * Internet Resource- I**nformation on [|Rosario Morales]

This site by wikipedia, is very helpful because it gives bibliographic information on Morales. This site covers her early life and childhood along with any other information that shaped her as a writer and her published works. In the references part of the article it has a link that goes to a PDF of an interview of Rosario Morales which can be very interesting if you're searching for first hand responses and want to get a feel for what she's really like. Another thing that's very helpful about this cite is that throughout the article there are links to help you better understand something you might not be familiar with like certain words or names.

"Rosario Morales" //Wikipedia The Free Encyclopedia.// N.p. Feb. 2015. Web. 1 Apr. 2015.


 * Additional Internet Resource no Database Resource found-** Articles about [|"The Day it Happened"]

This is a PDF of an interview with Rosario Morales by Kelly Anderson. The PDF of the interview is 78 pages long. In this interview Morales talks about her family and childhood background in New York City, discovering radical politics, along with her work as a poet and writer. Morales is open with her relationships with both her husband and children but mainly her daughter Aurora who is also co-author. She goes into details with her experiences in both New York and Puerto Rico within the Communist Party, along with her developing feminist consciousness. Her work as a writer and a poet is the predominant theme throughout the interview.

Anderson, Kelly. "Rosario Morales: Voices of Feminist Oral History Project" //Smith College.// Jan. 2005. 1 Apr. 2015.