What stood out to me while reading chapters 9-12 in part two was when Martine started testing Sophie, because she came home late. I couldn’t believe what I was reading, it was so nasty. But, in chapter 11 Sophie and Martine’s relationship is crumbling down to where it was before. Martine is frightened of her girl growing up so, she falls back on her mother’s practice of “testing” or attempt to put her finger inside of Sophie to make sure she is still “whole”. But, didn’t she say she can have a boyfriend at 18? Between Martine and Sophie’s loss of virginity there are many differences. Martine was forcibly raped by a man she didn’t know. Whereas Sophie takes her own with an object. Sophie did it because she was dreaded from all of the “testing” just as her grandmothers testing  came to an end with Martine’s rape.