What stood out to me the most in the reading was Sophie’s rebellion. She faked the one thing she knew would crush her mother. Yes, her retaliation was obviously due to the fact that her mother had began “checking her” but, she didn’t even really lose her virginity – that act seemed selfish and spiteful. Especially after all her mother did and sacrificed for her.

Knowing what her mother went through, knowing how she came into this world it should’ve been obvious that Martine would’ve gone to extreme lengths to protect her. And yes those lengths were invasive and humiliating but Sophie retaliation was just as extreme. The man that Sophie seemed to be risking it all for was her mother’s age and the first male she seemed to ever really have feelings for, and she threw everything away for him so easy.