Sometimes stories are not all they appear to be, unless you deeply analyze them. That is the beauty of a well-written story with hidden knowledge and secret meanings hiding beneath the words. As I was reading May-Lee Chai’s Saving Sourdi, I thought the narrator was a static character because she did not change. However, Nea is a dynamic character because she changes right at the end. She remains tough, impulsive, and loyal to her sister, until the last paragraph.
Almost throughout the story, Nea remains tough and resilient. When she was eleven years old, she stabbed a man to “protect” her older sister (Chai 181). She did not even feel back about it, saying, “what I didn’t tell Sourdi was that I was still a wicked girl. I was glad I’d
Almost throughout the story, Nea remains tough and resilient. When she was eleven years old, she stabbed a man to “protect” her older sister (Chai 181). She did not even feel back about it, saying, “what I didn’t tell Sourdi was that I was still a wicked girl. I was glad I’d