You have given an interesting list of options above. If I
were you, I would have to say that out of those options, loving and curious is the most
likely. This is because all the others are too extreme and do not accurately describe
the narrator. Certainly she is something of a "tomboy" by her own account, but she is
definitely not sneaky and wild, as you put it. We can say that the narrator is curious
by the way that she is always watching and paying attention to the changes that are
going on around her, and how she picks up that something is going on and that all is not
well. Then we can argue that she is loving through the way in which she develops a very
close bond with Liberty, the dog that she is given and needs to leave behind in order to
paradoxically gain liberty. Because she knows her dog is in danger if he stays, she has
to scare him away, and out of love for him, has to be violent towards
him:
Finally
I have to resort to Mami's techniques. I kick him, softly at first, but then, when he
keeps tagging behind me, I kick him hard. He whimpers and dashes away toward the front
yard, disappearing in areas of darkness, then reappearing when he passes through lighted
areas.
We can see the
profound love that the narrator has for her dog expressed in the violence that she has
to enact upon Liberty.
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