Been avoided, ignored, rejected, or even shirked, have a big impact in every person, no matter what the situation may be. For hall, being shunned was her death. To think that even the kids of the adults in her community, had given her their back, made her wonder if she had done something wrong to them. Shunning made her sought after, death. Because, the way people ignored her as she was not alive or even human, give the effect of a casualty. Also, school the friends that she thought, would understand what was her situation. They just walked out, without saying a word. The feeling of expulsion with the people she only knew, or I may say her cousins as she referred to them as. The perfect girl wasn’t so perfect after all. As said by Hall, “The loss was only mine, a private and interior devastation”. Knowing what was happening, it was her mistake or misstep. …show more content…
Making Hall concealed. Consuming herself into the fact that she no one anymore. The fact that she hides her pregnancy for 5 months, without anyone noticing is a lot of courage. Although she was feeling confused and getting to the idea, that she was pregnant, a baby, a living soul in her belly, someone who need her protection but who protects her. Hall was and is after years, the outcast of her house, the community, and even herself. The silence of her church, made her feel and think as she never belonged with their Christianity. As everyone heard what has had to happen with ones of their precious girls, she knew her life in the Hampton was practically