Breath Eyes Memory Analysis

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Chapter one of, How to Read Literature like a Professor, is titled, “Every Trip is a Quest.” Thomas C. Foster writes that every quest needs the following things; a quester, a place to go, stated reason to go, and challenges and obstacles, but he also tells the reader to look underneath the iceberg, he says, “the real reason for a quest never involves the stated reason,” continuing on stating, “the real reason for a quest is always self-knowledge” or self growth (3). In Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat, finding the quester, Sophie, was easy. The journey isn’t as easy to describe. Starting in Haiti, where she was born, Sophie’s world revolves around the women who reared her, Tante Atie (her aunt), and her grandma, that is until the first obstacle, her mother, comes into …show more content…
Sophie injuring herself, and other emotional hardships such as her bulimia, cause a rift in her and Joseph’s marriage, and she leaves with her infant daughter, Brigitte, to visit Tante Atie and her Grandma. She returns from that visit and more time passes. Her mother’s mental health declines further, and comes to an all time low when she becomes pregnant with Marc’s, her longtime partner, baby. The baby brings back memories her getting rape, and eventually she kills herself by stabbing herself in the stomach. This leads to Sophie’s final destination of her quest, the trip to Haiti for her mother’s funeral. It is then, that Sophie visits the ghosts of her and her mother’s past, in a scene described as Sophie running to the spot in the field where her mom was raped where she reflects on her mother and acknowledges her mother's bravery and their similarity, and her grandmother asks, “Are you free, my daughter...you will know how to answer.” Her quest really was finding
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