In the story "Geraldo No Last Name" by Sandra Cisneros, retell the main events of this story as you imagine Marin would have told them to the police.

The first two paragraphs of this vignette should give you
ample information to complete this task. Note how we are told that this is what Marin
told the various authorities, the police and the hospital, "again and again," indicating
the way that she was forced to repeat her story, but also the way that she stuck to the
facts that she was given by him. The first paragraph in particular reveals their
connection:

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She met him at a dance. Pretty too, and young.
Said he worked in a restaurant, but she can't remember which one. Geraldo. That's all.
Green pants and Saturday shirt. Geraldo. That's what he told
her.

Note how the brief,
short style of this narration reflects Marin's sadness at what happened and how she was
moved by Geraldo's death. It also could reveal Marin's own fear about revealing too much
information about a boy who was an illegal immigrant, just another "wetback" or "brazer
who didn't speak English." Thus, Marin's narration of the events would necessarily be
very limited and it would keep to the facts alone rather than going into any other
details that could be damaging both to herself and to Geraldo.