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Hunt Honors English 9, Period 1 September 27, 2011 Chandas Secrets Essay
her; in fact, Chanda has to walk twenty feet behind her. Iris now is not enjoyable to be with anymore, in fact she makes life harder on everyone else based on her daily attitude. Chanda has so many challenges including school, raising her family, longing for her mom to come home, dealing with Mrs. Tafa, supporting her friend Esther, and now the added pressure from Iris, putting a burden on their family. On top of it all, Iris decides to skip school, and get inebriated in a junkyard which scares Chanda so much, especially after the police have found Iris friends dead in a well. Iris now is choosing to get in trouble, and doing whatever she wants to, because she has no reason not to do it now that her mom is gone. Now that Lillian had not come back for weeks, Iris feels as though she is free to do anything, and does not even think about Chanda and Soly, or how they must feel about it all. Iris is in her own world, doing whatever she pleases, because in her own mind, there is nothing that can stop her. Life can be tough, especially for Iris Kabelo, having to watch her family disappear from the humiliation of AIDS. Iris is totally side tracked, and has drifted away from knowing what comes first, family. Embarrassment or not, family comes first. Iris seems to purposely want to separate from her family, because in her eyes, her family is gone, now that her mom is gone. Iris Kabelo expresses her feelings and burdens of her family and HIV/AIDS through her appearance around her community.
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