While reading this novel, I come across something very vital in this scene. Eighteen- year old Sophie graduated from high school and is going to start college very soon. Her mother put her in Maranatha Bilingual Institution, but Sophie dislike it. The reason Sophie hated it because all of her classes are French aside from English and literature classes. In addition, the students from public school across the street were calling Sophie and her classmates racial names like “boat people” and “stinking Haitians.” I feel sad for Sophie because she felt like an outcast in New York City by other people who were xenophobic to her kind. In addition, I believe her mother was overprotective and very strict to her. Another scene that I found very significant, but confusing and disturbing was Sophie’s mother testing her. When Sophie’s mother was testing her, she noticed her daughter’s body trembling. It revealed Sophie failed the test and her mother angrily to tell to go Joseph. After the incident, Sophie to Joseph’s home and asked him to marry her. I feel extremely angry at Sophie’s mother for testing her body and not caring about what will happen to her when she goes to see Joseph.