Pg. 11. “She was sixteen. She had glossy leaves and bursting buds and she wanted to struggle with life but it seemed to elude her.”
The sentence describes her as ‘glossy’ and ‘bursting’ as if she is shiny, gleaming, and exploding with life. Using sixteen means she is still young, and glossy and bursting buds is saying that she is just becoming a woman. She is blooming like growing, and glossy like new. She wants to struggle with life because she feels like it will allow her to live and be like others, but life ‘eludes’ her - it avoids her. However, it’s not really life that avoids her exactly, but it’s her grandmother that holds her back. Nanny changes and makes her decisions by guilt tripping her. She lives under her grandmother.
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