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Saving Sourdi

A Sisters Unwanted Love

Carol Saline said, “Sisters function as safety net in a chaotic world simply by being there for each other.” Characters in “Saving Sourdi” demonstrate a safety net in a story about the love of family, and the struggle it most times takes to continually care for a loved one when you know they are doing something wrong. Author May-Lee Chai wraps readers into her story “Saving Sourdi” with her tantalizing use of the complex stock and round characters.
Nea is Chai’s main character, narrator and is used as a round character. Throughout the story Chai shows the mind of this small child to be intelligent, although immature at times.The opening paragraph sets an ...

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to do what she felt she had to. There is a whirlwind of anxiety and emotion that follow the two girls with the grazing of the drunkard, when the siblings are alone they reflect on what could potentially happen to them had it been worse. The young family working for very little could be torn apart because of the lapse in judgment of a pre-teen. The sickening feeling Nea was brought to allows the reader to find out just how scary their life could have been. “I started crying again, because I realized Sourdi was right.”… “I was crying because life was so unfair.” (Chai 130)
Chai’s use of a very young hero allows the reader to start to understand how deeply she cares for her older sister. Nea is also shown to be obsessed with who her sister is as a person. She speaks of Sourdi’s appearance in how beautiful she is and how often she compares herself to the older sibling. The small child truly believes no one will ever be enough for her quaint sister. “I used to think of him as ...

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Added: 3/30/2012 06:24:28 PM
Submitted By: cburg1207
Category: Book Reports
Type: Premium Paper
Words: 1247
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