beyond the limbo silence by Elizabet Nunez Beyond Sara s hands
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Beyond Sara's hands
It is always hard to make a change in our lives, and it is even worse when we are not prepared for the transition. In the novel "Beyond the Limbo Silence", we have a clear example of how the protagonist Sara Edgehill left her country Trinidad to go to Oshkosh, Wisconsin. For Sara this was a new place where she had to get used to, and face many different unexpected things. These new things included a new culture and new people, which in most of the cases looked at her as a foreign but also as a human being with goals and dreams of success. No body is prepared to confront an issue like adaptation but most face it positively in order to succeed.
The character Sara had an opportunity to succeed in life but like everything has a price, hers was to leave her country, be separated from her love ones and face a new world where she had to fit into it. She was unprepared because, as every foreign she came with her own culture and religious believes. Sara believed in Saint Judas, in Buddha, and in medicinal herbs. It was part of her tradition; her family believed that it protected them from any spirit or harms. What the people from the island saw as part of their culture, the Americans saw it as something ignorant...