Breath Eyes Memory And Sister Flowers Analysis

The Women of Breath, Eyes Memory and "Sister Flowers" The women in both the novel Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat and "Sister Flowers" by Maya Angelou were very interesting characters. Although both stories took place in different countries you could still see the similarities in the women 's characters. In both the novel and the short story you could tell that the women were all loving, encouraging and education-minded. First, you could tell the women in both stories were very loving. Sophie loved her Tante Atie very much. On mother 's day, Sophie made her aunt a card with a carefully attached flower, to show Atie how much she meant to her. Later, when Sophie learned she would have to leave her aunt and head to New York she became

Even though Tante Atie was not interested in returning to school herself, you could tell it was important to her that Sophie got the chance at an education. Atie moved out of her village and away from her own mother so Sophie could attend school. When Sophie and Atie return to the village where Atie grew up to visit granny Ife she proudly told her mother how great Sophie was doing in school. Education was also important to Marguerite. She often found herself feeling both angry and embarrassed by her momma 's tendency to leave verbs out when she spoke. In fact, one of the reason 's Marguerite admired Mrs. Flowers so much, was that she was an educated woman. Mrs. Flowers, however, was a woman who believed in the importance of both formal education and the education that came from life experiences. Mrs. Flowers even explained to Marguerite that there was wisdom in old country folk and that she should pay attention to what they had to say because their wisdom came from several generations worth of life experience. She told Marguerite there was a difference between ignorance and illiteracy and that there were people in the world with no formal education who were just as smart and smarter than some college professors. Education has always been important to my mother. She was always correcting my English when I spoke. She would say I needed to make sure I spoke correctly, especially since English is not my first language. My mother is extremely happy with my decision to go back to school and it makes me happy to see her so