Upon crossing the Pittman line, “missy” makes two promises to herself - one to change her name to the name of the first place she ran out of gas, the other, to settle down wherever her windowless, push start Volkswagen stopped running. Her name change, a symbol of her break with her past, was destiny, facilitated by a conscious decision to continue driving so as not to end up being named Homer, Cerro Gordo, Decatur, or some other cognomen distasteful to “Missy”.
Salva was moving with the crowd of people without his family members. He was pretty sure that his uncle died because the men murdered his uncle righr before Salva's eye.
Marial and his uncle were not next to him and Salva himself knew that they would never be seen again.
His uncle shared the food with everyone around him, but things changed Salva had to beg people for food.
