Sister Mary’s voyage to Aden introduced her to her future lover and killed her only companion. When she finally reaches her destination nothing else goes to plan as her teacher died and no one is left to help her. The next thing the book explains is her arrival in Ethiopia, which was weird to me because it skipped over a huge section to get there. Sister Mary says that Aden is where the devil leaves and where she learnt that God could be harsh. The last sentence while she is still in Aden is “his muddy eyes dropped from the ceiling to her face, to her lips, and to her bosom” (31). A few paragraphs later she arrives at Missing Hospital deathly skinny and bleeding in between her legs.
This skip in the plot leads me to believe that something unspeakable happened in Aden. I think that she was probably raped or somehow hurt by the man in the hot house. Sister Mary went through so much in those few weeks after leaving India, the fact she can even be normal after that impresses me.
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