Prof. C. Coleman Cultural Diversity 101 CD (W1) October 27‚ 2012 Response Log #2 (Breath‚ Eyes‚ Memory) So far in the novel "Breath‚ Eyes‚ Memory‚" Sophie is in America living with her mother. She was eighteen about to start college. From chapter 9 through 12 she recalls moving elsewhere with her mother and also that she attended a Haitian Adventist school that went from elementary straight to high school. She expressed how much she hated the school because "it was as if I never left
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Chabin one gourde to play the number thirty-one‚ the age of her sister Martine‚ Sophie’s mother‚ who lives in New York and whom Sophie has only seen in photographs and dreams. Noting a sudden sadness in her aunt‚ Sophie spontaneously presents her with the daffodil-decked Mother’s Day card which she had made as a surprise for the following Sunday. But Atie refuses to take it‚ insisting that it is for Sophie’s mother‚ and that she will accept a card only on Aunt’s Day. In the evening‚ the neighbors
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BREATH‚ EYES‚ MEMORY In the human experience‚ memory is essential for communicating‚ locating‚ and identifying people‚ places‚ events‚ and objects. Conversely‚ memory can be one’s enemy as past horrors are revived. The evocation of these past ghosts has the potential to incapacitate‚ drive to insanity‚ and kill an individual depending on the intensity and frequency of the memory. From early in Breath‚ Eyes‚ Memory‚ Edwidge Dandicat memorializes Haitian history by the commonly repeated question-phrase
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Breath‚ Eyes‚ Memory by Edwidge Danticat Breath‚ Eyes‚ Memory‚ Edwidge Danticat’s first novel is about her childhood in Haiti and her move as a young girl to New York City. The novel is written in a first person narrative. The narrator‚ Sophie Caco‚ relates her direct experiences and impressions from age 12 until she is in her twenties. In this book she talks about her struggles with her mom’s depression and detail into their relationship‚ the violence going on in Haiti and her family back
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In the book Breath‚ Eye‚ Memory was about a girl name Sophie‚ twelve‚ who lived in Croix- des- Rosets‚ Haiti with her Tante Atie. Growing up in Haiti Sophie experience a good life living with Tante Atie. During that time many people were poor and lived in small huts or shacks‚ which were far from how Sophie lived because of the money her mother sent from America. Sophie was left with her Tante Atie when she was only months old and she grew found of her Tante and took her as her mom. Tante Atie would
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The relationship between a mother and her daughter is something that is crucial to the development of a daughter’s life. Traditionally the mother is not only the provider for her daughter she is the teacher and care taker. In the novel Breath‚ Eyes‚ Memory By the protagonist‚ Sophie Caco‚ is a young girl from Haiti that was brought up by her grandmother and her aunt until the age of twelve when she is reunited with her mother in New York. The generational relationship between mother and daughter
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A Homeward Journey: Edwidge Danticat’s Fictional Landscapes‚ Mindscapes‚ Genescapes‚ and Signscapes‚ in Breath‚ Eyes‚ Memory 1. The writer’s argument is that‚ “Danticat has created an intricate pattern of sign-images‚ some of which focus on birth‚ growth‚ testing‚ love‚ death‚ that at times bifurcate or trifurcate‚ leading to other sign-image – all of which emanate from personal sources but lead to unlimited possibilities and beyond that to more heart-wrenching limited probabilities and so create
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The Mother-Daughter Relationship in Amnesty In Nancy Chodorow’s Pre-oedipal gender configurations‚ she emphasizes the importance of the mother and society in a child’s development. In contrast to Freud’s emphasis on the father‚ castration anxiety‚ and other masculine concepts‚ Chodorow argues that the mother plays the most significant role in a child’s development. A child’s pre-oedipal relationship with their mother is rich‚ long-lasting‚ and preexists any significant relation to the child’s
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The Most Complex Relationship In Breathe‚ Eyes‚ Memory‚ Tante Atie usually tells about the chunk of the sky and flower petals story to explain from where Sophie was born‚ but of course‚ Sophie is not an exception of nature. Like billions of girls all over the world‚ she was linked to her mother’s body by the placenta‚ and lived in the womb for nine months before being greeted by the world. When the placenta is removed – a girl and her mother do not share the same body any more‚ however
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First quote “Some of the students fell and rolled down the hill. They screamed at the soldiers that they were once again betraying the people. One girl rushed down the hill and grabbed one of the soldiers by the arm. He raised his pistol and pounded it on top of her head. She fell to the ground‚ her face covered with her own blood” (pg.34) The passage‚ with all the descriptive words‚ had shown the unstable situation‚ political violence in Haiti. By this passage‚ readers can see the life in Haiti
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