As is stated in the “Epilogue: Women Like Us” where the narrator feels pressure from her mother, “The fragile sky has terrified you your whole life… thousands of years.”(195). The narrator is under pressure to live up to the standard set by her mother, because her mother sacrificed so much for her. So she just wants freedom from the stress of that pressure. Another example of a want for relief of pressure is when Guy jumps off of the hot air balloon in “A Wall of Fire Rising,” “‘Do you want to close the eyes?’... ‘No leave them open,’ Lili said. ‘ My husband, he likes to look at the sky.’”(67) All Guy ever wanted to do was to reach the sky to where the pressure to give his son a good life was ever so small. The pressure is taken away when people go to the place where their imagination soars like an
As is stated in the “Epilogue: Women Like Us” where the narrator feels pressure from her mother, “The fragile sky has terrified you your whole life… thousands of years.”(195). The narrator is under pressure to live up to the standard set by her mother, because her mother sacrificed so much for her. So she just wants freedom from the stress of that pressure. Another example of a want for relief of pressure is when Guy jumps off of the hot air balloon in “A Wall of Fire Rising,” “‘Do you want to close the eyes?’... ‘No leave them open,’ Lili said. ‘ My husband, he likes to look at the sky.’”(67) All Guy ever wanted to do was to reach the sky to where the pressure to give his son a good life was ever so small. The pressure is taken away when people go to the place where their imagination soars like an