The death of anyone changes anyone. It plays with your head, and your life. Edwidge Danticat’s “Untwine” shows the real life experience of Giselle Boyer losing her sister Isabelle in a car accident. We watch as a joyful teenager is changed in seconds as she loses the other half of her. We see the symbolic message of their bond goes throughout the whole story, and we see that although she loses her sister, she ends up losing herself too.
Chapter One: Symbolism Between Bonds
In Untwine, the symbolism of the twin's hands plays a part throughout the whole story, which later shows pressure from Isabelle’s death on Giselle to fill the gap in her family's heart. In the hospital, Giselle mentions that her parents “never tried to morph us” which showed that although they did have an emotional bond, they had differences to keep them unique. While we learn about “the language of the palms” (pg 35). We learned that “the language of the palms” was a symbolic message with the…show more content… When we first meet Grandma Regine, we learn about her sayings about the twins and how they are “as similar as two drops of water.” We see how this follows throughout Giselle's life, and the impact that the message gives to her. What this message provides to her is the idea that people believed both sisters were so similar there was nothing to tell them apart. This affects Giselle throughout her life with pressure, because once everything happened, and we see Giselle's grief, and this idea that they could have been the same person in a sense- Which eats Giselle alive with anxiety to fill the hole in her family's heart. Later, when we meet Aunt Leslie, we go back in time to when she gave both girls necklaces, telling them that twins have special powers. This symbolised the purity of the girls relationship, as it continues to develop a love so strong that it could be looked at as a special power that both the twins
