Tymeirah Hayes
March 17, 2020
The story Sweeping Past starts off at a very fast pace because the author jumps right into the meat of the story. My attention was immediately caught in the beginning of the story by the introduction. The quote from the story that I noticed the most was the very first line. It states “ They had become sworn sisters in Ailin’s backyard 50 years ago…” This quote stood out to me because it instantly got me excited to read the story. Now at this particular point of the story I am already trying to form ideas of what this quote could possibly mean. For example, I thought to myself why is the author using the word sworn so early or at all. One of my first thoughts that I had in response to this quote was that sworn sisters were a way to explain a connection to a cult. My mind began to think so many things when I read this quote all for me to come to the realization that the relationship was as simple as friendship.
As well as that, I also thought about the time given of how long these sworn sisters had been sworn sisters. It was interesting that they had been sworn sisters for 50 years. 50 years is a very long time to have such a relationship with someone. I thought it was interesting that the author mentioned the 50 years, and wasted no time to mention how long this sisterhood had lasted. A theme that this quote brings up for me after reading it is the power of a bond particularly between women. I started to think about the close friends that I have had since I was in 9th grade and how our friendships over the years have only strengthened. Infarct, I now look at them as my sisters. The story has a very interesting way of divulging deeper into The sisterhood / friendship. However, it was at that point that I was actually drawn into the story because I was trying to figure out what all of the different loaded terms meant. Like the word sworn or how important 50 years actually was to the story. My initial response to the quote was to be prepared for a story about a bond that had lasted for 50 years, which made me excited because I was intrigued to see how that might look in an instance and in this case for the women involved. I was very excited to read on and by the end I was very happy with what I read and how things ended.
Coming to Age 