In  this portion of the book we see Sophie coming to America and getting adjusted into the new life with her mom. She’s still missing her aunt back home but her mom is helping her to understand everything about their lives by telling her things about the things that she and autie went through while growing up. Two of the key moments that stood out to me the most from this reading was; when Martine was explainining the severe measures her mother would take to ensure that her and autie were still virgins, when they were younger, this gave me a preview of how strict her mom was. Another part that stood out to me was when Martine revealed that she got raped at the the age of 16, which is how she got pregnant with Sophie, this stood out to me because it showed that despite her mom’s attempts to protect them from the world  she couldn’t protect them from everything and this I believe had a huge impact on both autie and martine’s life.