Cammy Reagan; Carol's Journey

It took me a little bit to settle into this movie, however I think I was able to get the idea behind the movie. Carol was a young tomboyish girl who dressed the part. She wore pants most of the time, she only wore dresses on occasions when they were warranted. She learned quickly that there was some difference in the culture in which she grew up in when she first encountered Tomi. He was a young boy that taunted her as she rode on the back of a horse drawn wagon en route to her grandfather's house. With Tomi's taunts he took her hat away from her. Her response to that was to yell at him and call him a thief. After being in Spain for a few days and getting a bicycle from her grandfather, she encountered Tomi again and wrestled with him to get her hat back. Tomi proved to be stronger than she until she kicked him in his private parts to get the upper hand. Later when they were in the cemetery, Tomi was being harassed by the police and Carol took up for him, consequently the police left Tomi alone and they became friends after that. Her mother proved her American roots when they were on the train and she light a cigarette in front of the priest. She was dressed very modern. There were times that I thought that her mother was ill when she coughed and acted as if she was having trouble breathing. I anticipated her demise when she was sitting on the swing in the garden and Carol went looking for her. She tried to live with her aunt after her mother's death and it was apparent that she did not like the rules of the house, so she ran away--something that would definitely happen in America, then going to live with her grandfather. She was very protective of her father in that she did not want her grandfather to tell him of her mother's death since he was serving in the war. Carol seemed to know the ways around the system as well, since she was able to send letters to her father without her grandfather knowing. Her independence was very apparent throughout this film, with her refusal to wear a dress at her first communion which she really did not want to do, she dressed like the boys did. She also showed her independence when she sat reading a book at the cemetery when her mother died, which has been seen as very disrespectful of the dead. This has not been the culture of Hispanic people in all of the films that we have screened. The other thing that I noticed to be the common theme in all of the films, the importance of family. This was shown when her aunt took her in after her mother's death and her moving to her grandfather's house, both of which took her in without question.
I think if there had been subtitles for this film it may have been a little easier to screen, however I think I was able to figure out the plot of the movie.