The story aims to push the audience to think in a new way. Viramontes wants her readers to take away more from The Moths than simply the story of a Hispanic woman achieving spiritual awareness; he wants his readers to experience that spiritual awareness too. The goal of the story is to allow the reader to grow together with the character. A moment of awakening occurs for the narrator at the end of The Moths. After his grandmother dies, the narrator enters the tub and begins to cry. “I cried, rocking us, crying for her, for me, for Amá” (p. 307). This line shows acceptance of loss, acceptance of suffering, and an inevitable moving forward. The narrator experiences “sadness and relief” all at once. Viramontes shows the final progression of the character. As the character transforms, Viramontes allows the reader to see the inner workings of struggle, oppression, and abandonment, and how someone can break through and become a more enlightened version of their past self. This is a role of the curandera; to allow art to be cultural capital and move someone