Quote #1: said by her father, page 123 " 'If i could do something else' my father said, ' I'd be either a grocer or an undertaker. Because we all must eat and we all must die.' "
I thought the significance of this quote was definitely to show how intellectual her father is. Although it may not sound so complicated, I still think it takes wisdom to think of something like that and take eating and dieing and compare it to being a grocer and an undertaker. Also, you would think instead of a grocer he would say something like a charity to feed hungry children. But instead he chose an easy primitive job.
I would also choose to be a grocer because it's so easy to be on. But the biggest reason is because it is sort of depressing to see hungry children and men and women everyday while trying my hardest to get people to buy them food. In a grocery store I would see smiles and people happy to see what I put out on the shelves.
Question #1:
What are two jobs you would want to have and why?
Quote #2: Narrated by Edwidge "the American consulate wrote to my uncle to see if we were in good enough health to travel to the United States. I was eleven year old."
I chose this quote because it shows that it really must have been an impact on Edwidge because she was only 11 years old and had to go through all these tests made by a country she wasn't even familiar with.
I have never been tested for big reasons like she was but I know that it I was 11 I would be so scared of the tests, and being my defeatist self, I wouldn't believe I would pass the tests. But if I knew it was from the country I wanted to get into I would try my hardest to pass them
My second question:
Would you be scared of tests by another country? or would you trust them?
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