Sarah Grimke Sacrifice

In the story “The Invention of Wings”, you have two main characters that you follow, Hetty “Handful” Grimke, and Sarah Grimke. Both of their lives, big bundled up balls of yarn made up of good and ill happenings that shape the way they make their life choices and many other choices as well. For example Handful had the disappearance of her mother when she was a teenager, which led to many events like her attempting to find out what happened to her mother, thus getting her intertwined with Denmark Vesey. Who I really want to focus on though, is Sarah Grimke because I feel as if she was handed a lot more options because she wasn’t confined to one place all her life. All in all, I believe that Sarah Grimke’s life panned out the way it did because …show more content…
Though brutal and inhumane, Sarah seeing Rosette, a slave, whipped at a young age is actually a good example for good and ill, in where it made Sarah one of the most outspoken and famous abolitionists out there. Throughout the book Sarah went back to that memory to remember the monstrosity of slavery and as motivation to get the issue known by all so in the end it helped end slavery. Seeing this brutality as a child also gave her a speech impediment whenever she got nervous which is proof as to how much this event affected her. These are the reasons I stand by this example of good and ill, because of the way it affect …show more content…
When Sarah’s father died, on her way back she met a man named Israel that became a big part of her future. If her father hadn’t died at the time he did, she would have never met Israel and been lead to the Quaker faith which played an important role in her life. The Quaker faith is even what lead her to write her famous pamphlets on the importance of abolition, and even the early feminist movements. These are all good things that came from the bad experiences in her life, and as Sarah Grimke had said, “There’s no pain on earth that doesn’t crave a benevolent witness.” (Kidd