The Virgin Of The Sicarios

Please visit, https://www.you-books.com/book/F-Vallejo/La-Virgen-De-Los-Sicarios and right-click on the page to translate to English. Answer the questions with a brief paragraph while providing one quote from the text for each of the 5 questions.

1. Who is ‘the Virgin of the Sicarios’ in the text?
2. How is it that Vallejo demonstrates the terrible social situation in Colombia in the 1990s?
3. Is there hope in the novel?
4. What are the dominant themes of the novel? Where do we see them What contributes to the understanding of the work?
5. Can it be said that the Medelln that the reader finds in the novel is hell? Why or why not?