Analyed Quotes

Analyzed Quotes

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ou've done this," I said, and ripped off my shirt to show him my back. "You are responsible for this. "When I saw his startled eyes at my breasts, I slashed him across the face and on the second stroke cut off his head" (132-133). In this quote she reacts against his sexist behavior. It shows her female avenger she is being a woman who is not only startled but stands up for woman kind.

"The first thing you have to learn," the old woman told me, "is how to be quiet." They left me by streams to watch for animals. "If you're noisy, you'll make the deer go without water" (2.23). She believes herself to be training warrior, she shows the strength in silence and listening. By her adding this text she gives examples on how peace can exalt its self through.

I have believed that sex was unspeakable and words so strong and fathers so frail that "aunt" would do my father mysterious harm. I have thought that my family, having settled among immigrants who had also been their neighbors in the ancestral land, needed to clean their name, and a wrong word would incite the kinspeople even here. But there is more to this silence: they want me to participate in her punishment. And I have (1.47). Questions I asked were why has believed in her family's stories without question for so long. I realized that she relied on her family to set the requirements of her reality for long that she almost lost the ability to decide for herself.

“When I went to kindergarten and had to speak English for the first time, I became silent.” (165). I don’t inquire she become silent literally, I believe she couldn’t express herself, all of her results in her culture religion and most important her language that’s what separates different ethics, And I also thought if this girl doesn’t talk what will the world around her think , will she not talk forever or is speaking English a milestone stone to overcome because she is young and doesn’t quite understand her whole mind and soul....