Sophie had the opportunity to live with her mother in America. She was so attached to her Tante Atie and Grandmother that she would rather stay with them than to move to live with her mother she barely knows.

During Sophie’s trip to America, she experienced quite a bit of things she was never exposed to before. She experienced some nice scenes along the way and, of course, some bad moments had to be in the mix. There was a riot near the airport that almost caused her to miss her flight. While on the plane, there was an unruly and bad behaving boy sitting next to her; she tried to comfort him as he was crying but he bit her and he continued doing bad things to other people he encountered. As the story continues and Sophie is in the care of her mother, she continued to see unpleasant scenes starting with her mother’s old raggedy car; to the neighborhood and home where her mother lived. Martine, Sophie’s mother looked ragged herself. I was concerned about the way these bad exposures may affect Sophie in her new life because of the nice and happy home she was leaving from in Haiti.