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Sophie

"It was up to me to avoid my turn in the fire."(203)

Tante Atie

“We are a family with dirt under our fingernails."(20)

-protagonist

-first-person narrator

-daughter of Martine

-child of rape

-grows from a young girl into adult women

-broke hymen to stop testing

-insomnia, bulimia and sexual phobia

-reminder of mom's the past

Martine

-spent years taking care of Sophie while Martine was in New York.

-thought of Sophie as her own ; loves Sophie

-returns home to care for her mother after Sophie leaves

-in love with Monsieur Augustin

-refuses to join Martine in New York

-turns increasingly to alcohol

-becomes bitter at the world

"The testing and the rape. I live both every day."(170)

-Sophie's mother

-raped at the age of sixteen and got pregnant with Sophie which scared her for life.

-deeply wounded

-reason Atie moves to Croix-des-Rosets to care for Sophie

-reason Atie moves home to care for their mother in Dame Marie.

-Tested Sophie

-vivid nightmares

- committing suicide.

Grandmè Ifé

"We already had our turn."(138)

Breath, Eyes, Memory

-lives alone in the remote village of La Nouvelle Dame Marie, Haiti

- wise, candid, practical and astute

-content with where she lives

-tested her daughters' virginity

Theme

“There is always a place where, if you listen closely in the night, you will hear a mother telling a story and at the end of the tale, she will ask you this question: 'Ou libéré?' Are you free, my daughter?"

My grandmother quickly pressed her fingers over my lips.

Now," she said, "you will know how to answer.” (234)

Citation

Edwidge Danticat

SparkNotes Editors. “SparkNote on Breath, Eyes, Memory.” SparkNotes.com. SparkNotes LLC. n.d.. Web. 29 Sept. 2015.

"Breath, Eyes, Memory Quotes." By Edwidge Danticat. Web. 30 Sept. 2015.

Book Summary

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"At an astonishingly young age, Edwidge Danticat has become one of our most celebrated new novelists, a writer who evokes the wonder, terror, and heartache of her native Haiti--and the enduring strength of Haiti's women--with a vibrant imagery and narrative grace that bear witness to her people's suffering and courage.

At the age of twelve, Sophie Caco is sent from her impoverished village of Croix-des-Rosets to New York, to be reunited with a mother she barely remembers. There she discovers secrets that no child should ever know, and a legacy of shame that can be healed only when she returns to Haiti--to the women who first reared her. What ensues is a passionate journey through a landscape charged with the supernatural and scarred by political violence, in a novel that bears witness to the traditions, suffering, and wisdom of an entire people."

As the years go by, Sophie's relationship with her mom becomes shaky to the point where her mom kicks her out of the house after she fails one of her mom's testings(using her pinky into yest whether or not Sophie was still a virgin). After being kicked out of her mother's house, Sophie elopes with her neighbor(secret boyfriend) Joseph.

However Sophie becomes too far damaged: bulimic, insomnia, and finds sexual intercourse discomforting.

Sophie goes through the hardships of reconciling her with mom and fighting her demons in her journey to finally become free.

Sum It Up

cont'

Sophie Caco, a young twelve years old girl, who lived in Croix-des-Rosets, Haiti with her aunt Atie .

The story opens up with Sophie talking to Atie and noticing her aunt's sadness. Sopie has been saving a handmade Mothers' Day card to give to her aunt, but Atie refuses to take the card from Sophie, insisting that it belongs to Spohie's mother, Martine.

Usually, every now and then Martine would send cassettes to Atie and Sophie to check up on them, but this time things were different. Martine mailed plane ticket and instructions to have Sophie send to New York to live with her.

When Sophie receives the news, she is devastated. Her and Atie begin preparing for her deporter and visits her Grandmother in La Nouvelle Dame, Haiti to get her blessing.

When Sophie arrives to New york she tries her to adapt to the new environment, as she learns secrets about her family's past.

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