Everithing Must Come To An End

Despite agreeing to give up his search for Bobby until after D.Q. has finished his treatment, Pancho takes the rickshaw into to town and starts calling the five construction companies that have "and Sons" in their name. At each company, he asks to speak to Bobby, pretending to have a package to deliver. When he calls Jensen and Sons, he's connected to a Robert Lewis. Immediately, Pancho knows that he's speaking with the man who killed Rosa, and he's barely able to control his emotions. He tells Robert Lewis that he needs his home address to deliver the package, and Robert easily complies. Pancho hangs up the phone, shaking. He now knows where to find Rosa's killer. It was much easier than he had anticipated and the weight of this new knowledge, of Robert Lewis' address, weighs heavily on him. The morning arrives for D.Q. to transfer from Casa Esperanza to Helen's house. He's not looking forward to the transition, but he puts on a brave face for the other patients. Josie takes the move particularly hard, weeping and wailing when Pancho tries to say goodbye. She's just received amazing news, that her cancer is in remission, but she doesn't think she can celebrate without Pancho. Seeing Josie cry floods with Pancho with emotion. Suddenly, beautiful scenes from his last few weeks’ flash in his mind and he feels tears welling in his eyes. He gruffly hugs Josie and walks away. When he's out of her eyeshot, he leans against the building and weeps for the first time in his life. He weeps for the death of his father, losing Rosa, and all his other goodbyes. Johnny Corazon has moved into D.Q.'s house and gives him treatments every day in the cabana. Johnny has decided that D.Q. should take part in a healing ritual, spending the night outdoors to communicate with the gods. He says it is a ritual to show his desire to heal, both physically and spiritually. Even though the ritual is usually undertaken by one person alone, Johnny Corazon suggests that Pancho make the same commitment to healing. When Pancho sees the sparkle in D.Q.'s eye, he knows he cannot say no. Ever since contributing to D.Q.'s heartbreak, he's felt guilty, and he hopes a night out together might mend some of those wounds. That night, as they trek out into the piñon grove, D.Q. whispers that his health is slipping. D.Q. had asked Pancho to stay when Marisol came the next day but Pancho told him that he had to leave with Juan to see his friend Rafael, when he truly intends to kill Robert Lewis.  Despite his lovely afternoon with Marisol in the mountains, Pancho joins Juan for his ride into town, and borrows his truck from there. Pancho drives to Robert Lewis' address and spends some time scoping out the property before he makes his move. He's surprised when a young girl, about twelve-years-old, leaves the house with her mother, Robert Lewis' wife, for a soccer game. Looking through the windows into the house, Pancho sees the girl's bedroom, filled with the same dolls Rosa used to collect. In the living room, he sees Robert Lewis asleep in an armchair, a bowl of chips and a bottle of beer nearby. Pancho manages to slide open the backdoor and enter the house without waking Robert Lewis. Crouched in the porch, Pancho opens Rosa's diary and writes three pages of handwritten thoughts on its pages. He walks in and has a very rough conversation but doesn’t kill him. He and D.Q. head back to St. Tony’s and they enter their room, D.Q. looks out the window to contemplate a game of one on one.

“A Death Warrior who does not kill, who loves life” (Stork, 324). I believe that this quote means that a death warrior doesn’t have to kill if he loves life because it he will be taking what he loves from someone else. This quote was used at the ending parts of the book so I think that means that Pancho change somehow in the last month and his need to kill Rosa’s killer was relevant now more, the only thing relevant to him now is his friend D.Q.

I liked this book it was very emotion filled and made me think a lot about life and how we live it. I would recommend  this book to anyone who thinks that they don’t have a purpose in life, I would encourage them to read it so that they can change their perspective and view life from a new point of view. There was one thing in this book that I could relate to, the close friend with cancer, in my case it was my grandfather who died three years ago. In his weeks before the treatments I was always giving him hope as Pancho did with D.Q., that’s the only thing I could relate to. In conclusion I liked this book.