I believe that Sandra achieves pride in herself over the years by taking pride in the fact that she is the only daughhter out of seven children, the fact that she is a writer, most of all I think she took pride in all of her accomplishments . After writing successfully for ten years she received two "National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and A guest professorship at the University of California, Berkeley."(93) Her book was even sold to a major New York publishing house. But I think her greatest accomplishment was when heer father read her book and liked it. Sandra concludes with, "Of all the wonderful things that happened to me last year, that was the most