I feel like this quote on page 136 embodies everything Naomi Outlaw has learned and has become throughout this story. She has become a believer. She never stopped believing for one minute that she would find her father. In Ch. 4 of the Temple Text it says that one value a good multicultural book holds is the ability to "elicit thinking about ourselves and our world". While reading "Becoming Naomi Leon" I felt that through her struggles I was considering what it would be like if I were her. We all have struggles in our lives, but I feel that not knowing your father and having a mother who only wants you for personal gain is a struggle no child should ever have to go through. Thinking about this aspect in terms of education I began to realizet that I will probably have many students whose situations will be similar, if not worse, than Naomi's, and it makes me sad. I feel that even though my parents divorced when I was little, I was never without enough love. Luckily, Naomi had the love of her Gram, her brother Owen, her father, and her neighbors. Because Naomi is surrounded by people she loves and who loves her back, this helps her to continue to believe. Even at the end, she still wonders what it would be like to have her mother there with her all the time. She still longs for her mother's touch and this, I feel, is the greatest strength in Naomi. She has the ability to see past all her mother has done to her, and consider the things her mother can do for her. She still loves her, which is something that would be very hard for me to do. I commend Naomi in this and I feel that all students would see this in her as well. Naomi will be an amazing role model for all of her readers; she has surely become one for me.