Importance of Cell Phone Texting

The fact that Sierra receives texts messages from Bennie while she is with her grandfather who is speaking both English and Spanish to her symbolizes Sierra’s ability to communicate with the past and present. Speaking Spanish represents her grandfather’s link to the past. Sierra understands what he is saying which means that she has ties to the past. She also lives in the present as she speaks English and uses technology to text. The fact that she does all of this at the same time symbolizes that she can exist in all of the periods of time simultaneously, and she is comfortable in them.