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And then, in a single sky-falling second, the bastard comte had stripped all of that comfort and her growing confidence away, and Touraine had become just a Sand again. Just a Sand. She had never been ashamed of that before.
In an organic character arc of confliction and self-doubt, Touraine wrestles with fundamental questions of her being like this one.
Touraine was starting to think it was impossible to come from one land and learn to live in another and feel whole. That you would always stand on shaky, hole-ridden ground, half of your identity dug out of you and tossed away.
Profound observation and, though I have not seen Lewis interviewed about this book, I am guessing this is thinly veiled commentary on the social and psychological plight of people of African ancestry throughout the diaspora. Poignant!
She was as free now as she ever would be. She could choose what she fought for. She could choose who she was willing to die for.
At page 310, this soldier taken from her homeland as a child is experiencing an awakening. What a character arc! I was waiting for it and I needed as much as she did!
Touraine wanted to apologize again. She wanted to start over and ask, How are you? And yet she was so tired of apologizing to people who didn’t care for her and hers.
More signs of this character's transformation.
Balladaire, land of honey and whips. That poisonous combination of fear and hope had kept the Sands in line for ages. Had kept Touraine in line for ages.
A tried and true recipe for the oppression of colonized people the world over.
