Decisions we make in life can either cause us harm or good. I felt sorry for Sophie when she made her decision to use the mortar pestle on her private part to stop her mother from inspecting her. After this episode of rebellion, her life changed and likewise her relationship with her mother.

Sophie appears to have endured suffering since she left her mother’s home.  I believe Sophie is a danger to her own self despite the situation with her mother’s inspections that caused her to injure herself. Although she was suffering pain from the damage to her private part, she would still rather go through painful sex with Joseph soon after moving-in with him while she was not healed from her trauma. In addition to the pestle trauma, the painful sex with Joseph, she conceived a baby which she later turns up in Haiti with. Her mother Martine had never seen the baby but her Aunt Atie and Grandmother Ife welcomed the addition to their family.