Lives of the Saints Essay

Summary Chapter 1In the opening of the chapter, the main character Vittorio describes the story that the book is written ab tabu. It has a beginning that occurred on a hot July day in the twelvemonth 1960 in Vittorios home town of Valle de Sole, when his mother, Christina got bit by a snake. Vittorio describes his city as to have no holy places, ancient cites or ruins forgotten and unsung, just like hundreds of villages spread throughout Italy. Vittorio describes how his father immigrated to the States almost four historic period ago when Vittorio was barely three years old. His grandfather was left crippled from the war when a horse upset his foot and he was injured by a grenade. That day, his mother slipped out of the house making him promise that he would read his school books. Vittorios attendance at school was not very regular because he would spend much of class time wondering to the top of Colle di daddy or down the river with his friend Fabrizio and sharing cigarettes that Fabrizio had stole from his father.Vittorio was sitting on his porch reading math books when he dose off. He was awakened by a muffled shout coming from the shelter. Vittorio ran to the stable and stopped brusk at the bottom of the steps and peeked through the crack in the door. at heart he adage a green snake which slipped through the cracks of the stable and into the tomato garden. While Vittorio was watching the snake, the barn door opened, and a gentlemans gentleman with blue eyes swooped out of the stable. After Vittorio went inside the stable, he saw his mother pouring water into the pigs trough as though naught has happened. Vittorio tells his mother that he heard a man screm and when she asked him what he saw, Vittorio replied that he didnt see anything. He then told her that she has blood on her ankle. In the windup of the chapter, Christina tells Vittorio to run up to Di Luccis and tell him to bring a motorcar because she had been bitten by a snake.