As the story progresses, Sophie thinks and mentions her father more and more. Atie told her that she had been born out of rosepetals, water and a chunk of the sky but Sophie was now old enough to understand that that could not be true. She becomes more and more curious about the absence of a father figure in her life but no one seems to have any answers for her. She would have been able to find a father figure in the man that Atie was originally supposed to marry; the man that lived across the street from them in Haiti, Donald Augustin. Before meeting his wife Lotus he had intended to marry Atie but Martine would not tell Sophie what happened to change that.
The affects of not having a fatherly figure in a child's life can be huge. I am sure that the fact that there was no father in Sophie's life will definetly have a huge impact in her life and i am only waiting for it to become a more prominent fact in the story.
This is a link to a website about fatherless daughters and their experiences growing up and the way that not having a man in their lives has affected them.
http://fatherlessdaughters1.blogspot.com/
When I went to that website I didn't realize that there was an actual term for girls that grew up without fathers. I can't imagine growing up without a father figure. I don't blame those girls for feeling a little lost.
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