Leonora Sutter In 'Witness' By Karen Hesse

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Just as there are two sides to every story, there are two sides to every decision. In the book Witness by Karen Hesse, there are demonstrations of internal confliction of each character. One specific character who grew tremendously throughout the book was Leonora Sutter. Leonora Sutter is a young African American girl who lives in a small town in Vermont in 1924. She faces discrimination which does phase her at times but because of her persistent nature she does not let it ruin her charisma. Leonora talks in the beginning that she feels she is being “buried in all this whiteness”, after she hears a little boy died in a sand box. As a child Leonora lost her mother in a car accident, when Leonora saved Esther she saw her mother running with her,

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