Monday, March 22, 2010
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Sara has changed to become more independent. She has learned that in America things are a lot different. In America, oppurtunity is right there in front of you. Independence and self sufficancy is her goal after seeing each sister end up unhappy. Her father no longer is the one to choose what she does or who she marries. After she sees each sister come home with true love, father denying it and then each of them end up with something worse, Sara knows NOT to take that path with father. This has inspired or invited her to go her own way and do something with herself. At a young age, she is obessed with this goal. She can not take father's preching her entire life and she is ready to go the right way in this new world. Here, the torah is not going to tell you the way of life and she knows it.
ReplyDeleteEarly in the story, Sarqa serves mostly as a narrator; for the most part, she talks about the experiences of her sisters. However, as her narration progresses, and she gets older, the focus shifts to her. Upon watching her sisters married off by her father, whose arrogance and carelessness leads them to an unfortunate fate, she decides that she will not let him do the same to her. In this way her father's incompetance does help to develop her as an independent person, eventually pushing her to the point of leaving home in order to start on her own life, working in a laundry and taking night school to help her to become a teacher.
ReplyDeleteSara's not stupid. She grew up watching her Father ruin all three of her sister's love. She was someone who got to experience first hand how much pain and suffering he caused all of them, since she was the one her sisters turned to cryto. Seeing this, Sara finally gets the courage to go against her father and leave the house because she wants to be a self sufficent, independent woman and she knows that under her father's rules, she never will.
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