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Fourth Brother
Sunsets
Sunsets represent middle sister’s questioning of what she felt were self-evident truths about life, especially related to the Troubles. In French class, middle sister’s teacher makes her students look at the sky during a…
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The Cat’s Head
The cat’s head that middle sister finds in the ruins of a collapsed church represents the pervasiveness of violence—and gender-based violence in particular—throughout her community. It also symbolizes the obstacles that prevent her from retaliating…
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