Calliope Self Reliance

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Calliope struggled immensely on finding her true self. Written by Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex focuses on Calliope, a greek girl who then transforms into a boy after learning about the secret to her deformity. Throughout the book, she had to figure out who she truly was on the inside and out. In Middlesex Calliope used her power of self reliance to discover her true identity by falling in love with a girl, running away from home, and as a child, keeping her deformity a secret from others.
The character Calliope used self-reliance to discover her true identity by falling in love with a girl. For instance, she fell in love with her best friend and realized she was not attracted to boys. Her only friend was a girl she referred to as the Obscure …show more content…

Calliope is now Cal, a boy who is a reinvention of her old self. She discovers her new identity when sitting in a hotel room. While coming to realization Calliope said, “But it was powerful force for me, especially at fourteen, with my nerves bright and and jangling, ready to launch into a symphony at the slightest provocation. That was how Cal discovered himself..” (pg 453) Calliope relied on herself to run away from home after finding out her true gender. While in San Francisco, Cal meets new friends who helps him realize that it’s okay to be different. Cal befriends a transgender named Zora. After hearing about Zora’s struggles and hardships, Cal uses his intuition to see the similarities. To support this, it said, “ I wasn’t the only one!...Fate or luck had brought me here and I had take from it what I needed” (Pg 489) With help from his friends and fate, Cal now knows that he is meant to be a boy. He relied on his intuition to help him make his decision on staying in San Francisco. Cal found her true identity because she relied on herself to run away from …show more content…

In Middlesex Calliope used her power of self reliance to discover her true identity by falling in love with a girl, running away from home, and as a child, keeping her deformity a secret from others. She used her personal resources to determine her sexual orientation. Because she relied on herself run away from home, Calliope discovered that there are other people like her. Since she relied on herself to keep her hidden secret, Calliope didn’t need anyone but herself to love and accept herself. Given these points, Calliope struggled and then conquered figuring out her true self by having

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