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Analysis Of Sonia Sotomayor's 'The Road Not Taken'

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What this tells us about life is people that doubt you will sometimes never be somewhere in life. For example In the Sonia Sotomayor novel it's explaining how Sonia grew up in a different kind of neighborhood and today she is more and a successful lady. In the “The Road Not Taken” the Narrator took the road that is less traveled by and maybe when he took that road it could of changed his whole life into something good or bad but the more important thing is he took a difficult decision.
The roads that were given to Sonia were good and perfect colleges and she believed that schools in the poor neighborhoods made progress since she was in the fifth grade.
For the “Road not Taken” the narrator is maybe doubting himself because the road he took
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