Analysis Of The Book 'A Place Where The Sea Remembers'

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The book A Place Where the Sea Remembers, by Sandra Benitez, is told from a variety of different perspectives. All the characters live in a small town called Santiago, a Mexican village by the sea. The community struggles with social injustice, discrimination towards women, poverty, and finding hope for the future. One example involves Marta, a 15-year-old girl, who is raped and becomes pregnant. She does not want the baby, so her sister and brother-in-law offer to take the baby. Shorty after her sister agrees, however, she finds out she is pregnant, too, and comes to the realization that she can no longer take her sister’s baby. Through this conflict, other characters are affected, too. Additional conflicts are interwoven and are ultimately

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