Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat pages 201-236

In the last pages that I read, Sophie flew back to New York from Haiti with her daughter. When she got back she wanted to know what was going on with her mother. Plus she wanted to resolve her issues with her. When she went to visit her, Sophie noticed that her mother was carrying a child of her own. But there was only one problem. The baby reminded the mother of all the pains that she went through when she was carrying Sophie. It wasn't long that Sophie realized that her mother was suffering from all the pain that the baby brought her. The mother wanted an abortion, and she wanted fast. As Sophie was explaining to her friend what was happening she told the friend that her mother told her that the baby was talking to her. The friend tried to convinced Sophie to have the mother see a psychiatrist to help her mother with her problems but Sophie knew that her mother wasn't going to go. As her and her friend were talking Sophie knew that at the moment her mother was going to have an abortion. When Sophie went home she got a phone call from Marc telling her that her mother had killed herself and the baby. Sophie wanted to see her mother but she was too late, the already send the body to Haiti without her knowledge. Her. Mother had stabbed herself seventeen times in her stomach. Sophie didn't know how she was going to tell her grand mother and her aunt, little did she know they already knew. Her mother was buried in the backyard of her grand mother's house.
"I come from a place where breath, eyes, and memory are one, a place from which you carry your past like the hair on your head. Where women return to their children as butterflies or as tears in the eyes of the statues that their daughters pray to. (Danticat 234)
The reason why I chose this quote is because you can see where she got the title of the book. Not only that you can feel the emotions that she feels when she's saying those words.

Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat pages 158-200

After having the baby Sophie went back to Haiti to visit her grandma and her aunty. She was very excited to see tante Atie and also her grandmother. When she arrived in Haiti a lot changed, the people changed the community change and whole bunch of stuff. Soldiers were killing Innocent people, not because they disobeyed the law but it was because they wanted too. She was scared not for her but for little Brigitte. She wanted to get out of there. When tante Atie finally came to get her, she gave Sophie a big hugged and realized that she was suffocating the baby. Both of them looked at each other and started laughing. They were catching up on everything they missed .When they arrived to her grandmother’s everything was different. Her aunty wasn’t really getting along with Sophie’s grandmother. Since tante Atie started taking reading lesson her mother didn’t really like the fact that she was coming back to the house so late, tante Atie also started drinking and her mother didn’t really like that. A lot of things Sophie’s baby was doing reminded her of how tante Atie took care of her.After days of staying in Haiti Sophie's mother send tante Atie a Cassette. And that Cassette basacally said how Sophie's Husband been calling her and asking for Sophie and other details about her own life in New York. Apparently there was some secret that Sophie was Hidding from her aunt and grandmother.
"i am not having the short breath anymore, but every so often i do find myself dreaming the bad dreams. i thought it would end , but lately it seems to be beginning all over again" (Danticat 160)
the reason i do think the mother is continuing to have bad dreams is beacuse she druin her realationship with her daughter again and also the fact that she was molested at a young age. So when her daughter was living with her she had someone to talk with but since her daughter left her the nightmares came back

Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat pages 102-158

Sophie finally turned eighteen years old. She went to a school that spoke French but at the same time they had class that teaches her how to speak English. She didn’t like the school because she thought that the school was just like Haiti’s school. She always said if it was for that school she would not have been speaking English. For the pass six years her mother had thought her how to say the words in English. After Sophie was done with high school her mother wanted her to go to college and be a doctor but Sophie wanted to learn something, she wanted to be a secretary. During the summer everything changed for Sophie. Her mother and she moved to a better area, next to her mother’s boyfriend. She was able to have a boyfriend now since she was eighteen. There was a neighbor of hers that always use to look at her every time he saw her. She was falling for all the attention that the boy was giving her but little did she know he wasn’t a boy he was a man that was the same age as her mother. She started hanging out with him every time her mother left the house. One night Sophie finally got caught by her mother.Her mother wanted her to stay a virgin till she got married. When she got caught her mom sends her to her room and tested to see if she was a virgin or not. Her mother tested her probably every day until one day she decided to take her own virginity, when her mom found out she wasn’t a virgin she kick her out of the house. Since than Sophie went to her boyfriend’s house got married and had baby months later.

"There are secrets that you cannot keep"(Danticat 149)
i like this quote because it reminds me very much of my family. in fact those pages reminds me of my family and specialy my mother. Sophie's mother of my mother becauuse certain things that she would tell Sophie my mother would tell me. For example this quote would be something that my mother would say if she thinks that im lying about a question that she would ask me.