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Sophie Identity Quotes

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1. Explore the theme of how Sophie's identity evolves in the novel. The journey to self-discovery is a long and perilous one. Give examples, a few quotes.

2. Danticat writes: “I look to the past, to Haiti...hoping that the extraordinary female story tellers I grew up with. Will choose to tell their story through my voice. For those of us who have a voice must speak to the present and the past. For we may well be Haiti's last surviving breath, eyes, memory." How does the quote relate to the novel and what connections can we make to contemporary times? Danticat’s recollection for the Haiti past can thus also be seen as a yearning for an black past Sophie repeatedly bring to mind when she speak of Guinea as the place where all the women in my

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