Religion has always had a place in the life of Vito and his family, he had his own ways of using his faith to comfort himself as well as his own visions on what a heaven would be to him, while his daughter also held a strong faith in religion. Just as the weak Mimosa plant needs support to grow or face death, each of Vito's daughters , especially Lucia, has attached themselves to a faith, a religion to support and help themselves through life. Vito like many,

have found a place for his faith. He believed that a true heaven would be back in his homeland, back in the garden that he cared for so dearly. This garden in fact acted like his own garden of Eden. For his character was like that of the tender Mimosa plant, which when faced with the slightest touch or trouble from an outside source, would recoil its leaves and take a defense position close to the garden that

continue to remain as is...in a constant stasis until either of them confront the other in which they need; Vito to his daughters, Marta to Vito and Lucia to her father and of course her God.

and mocked Lucia for her exploration into other various religions, she herself eventually found herself unconsciously slowly becoming into what she has dreaded for so very long, she started to begin to be influenced by Lucia over time. Marta speaks of their mother and how she was an expert of love with the sacred heart of cupid. But Marta does not refer to Cupid by that name, bu

rouge, Marta would reject the pass-me down's from Lucia, obsessed with the thought of if she accepted these things that then she would become like Lucia and she would feel controlled and distant to herself....she wished to remain as herself and win the love of her father with what she was, not as a cheap imitation of his favorite child. Though she had her faith toward Christianity

religion in hopes to better express herself through one of the few things she does, poetry. Lucia explores many religions looking for this type of explanation and hope. She searches from Christianity to the ancient mythology. It is quit plausible that indirectly she is searching for a savior, searching for Jesus, which we gather from her faith to religion as well as when we are

Jesus like his father was a carpenter and so this subtle detail is given to us about Lucia, he longing for a savior she no longer wants to be this fallen angle. She also wishes deep down to communicate with her own father, but she has accepted the idea of her father no able to understand her own "language" as well as the thought of him being a very quite man. But in truth Vito can speak this language of dreams, this language of poetry but believes that his

"...he can talk to his children in the language in which they dream, but ke

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