in this scene we have isabel and her uncle and they found a calico cat by a pink black and decide to feed it and eats out of her uncles hands
after that isabel decided that she was going to keep the little cat
horts.The kitten gobbled up the last of the beans and mewed pitifully. Isabel wished she hadsomething else to give it, but this food was already more than she could spare. Her lunch hadn’tbeen much bigger than the cat’s—just a few beans and a small pile of white rice
But a few years ago, in 1989, theSoviet Union had fallen, and Cuba had hit rock bottom. Cuba was a communist country, likeRussia had been, and for decades the Soviets had been buying Cuba’s sugar for eleven times theprice and sending the little island food and gasoline and medicine for free.But when the Soviet Union went away, so did all their support. Most of the farms in Cubagrew only sugarcane. With no one to overpay for it, the cane fields dried up, the sugar refineriesclosed, and people lost their jobs. Without Russia’s gas, they couldn’t run the tractors to changethe fields over to food, and without the extra food, the Cuban people began to starve