Margot´s+story

MARGARITA GOTERA RGUEZ

[This story takes place] in Spain our grandfathers were suffering during the Civil War. It was the worst and the most horrible 3 years of recent Spanish history, where brothers, families and friends were divided and fought over different political ideas in the same country.

In the Canary Islands, the Civil was different because no great battle took place here. Nonetheless, we still suffered. Hunger and isolation caused of a lot of misery and not only this, many people lost family members and others hid in the mountains for political reasons. They hid in secret parts of their own houses or in some familiar place where nobody could find them.

In this story, one family in Canary Islander family lived happily together when suddenly the father had to run out of another door in his house, because someone accused him of being a communist. The whole family tried desperately to search and find him in the mountains and in places where their father used to like going. However, these efforts were not effective, and they did not see him again. Nowadays they do not know if their father is alive or if he was assassinated and buried in a mass grave.