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Chains Isabel Character Analysis

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During the book Chains Isabel is torn between escape for freedom and personal ties. She possesses ties to her family. These drive her quest for individuality and freedom. She also possesses ties to friends, new and old, who have help her along the way. Ultimately, these ties, some being hindrances, become the driving factors in her life. First, her ties to her sister inspire anger in her. On page 267 she states, “Why was I thinking of Ruth? I’d worked long and hard to pack her away from my mind.” Yet when she finds that Ruth is alive and well, she states that “Ruth was alive. Alive, in Charleston. In South Carolina, not on a ship, not on an island. Alive in a town I can walk to (pg. 238).” This drives her quest for freedom,
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