to a Chilean boy, who is supposed to be the brother of Joaquin. Her final transition was at the end of the book when she starts to pull out her dresses that she had brought with her. She had started to get the feeling back of wanting to dress like a woman again. Ultimately, Eliza discovers strength, resilience, independence and true love, none of it the easy way (Carman).Although Eliza had made the most transitions, Jacob Todds was the oddest. His first transition started in the beginning of the novel, when he had lost a bet. The narrator stated, With the braggadocio of a high-living man with too much beer in his belly, he had bet at a gaming table in his London club that he could sell Bibles anywhere on the planet (Allende 13). His bet took him to Valparaiso, where eventually he would be found out, and shamed. So, he returned to England. That was the last we hear of Jacob Todd until the end of the novel when you come across him in California as Jacob Freemont, the newspaper reporter. He went from a Bible salesman to a newspaper reporter. What a transition!Then you have Joe Bonecrusher. She was the madam of a caravan that included the four women who worked for her, Tom No-Tribe, and Babalu the bad. Joe believed she was a man trapped in a womans body. She portrayed herself as this tough, unemotional woman who hated it when her adopted son, Tom No-Tribe would call her grandmother. Joe responded to this by saying, Hells fire, Im not anyones grandmother. Im the Bonecrusher, do you hear what Im saying, you damn brat? (Allende 298). I believe her transition took place when people started coming down with dysentery. She took every single sick person in that needed her help to get better. She would cook for them, clean up after them, and read letters they received from back home. She had made the transition from an unattached, tough lady, to realizing she really had feelings, and could express them.Lastly, we have Joaquin Andiet...
