for her up until now. Her whole family lived in one room, crowded with no privacy, but Sara was determined to change all of that. She attended night school and worked as an ironer at a laundry shop. She went through many hard times, struggling to try to get her education and pass the exam to get into college. After passing the exam to get into college, Sara moved to an apartment with a door while she attended college. This was a great achievement for her. She finally had a place of her own, with a door and a window. At this point Sara becomes aware of her freedom and the achievements she has accomplished. She thinks back on her days selling herring on the streets to try to bring home money for her family and realizes the accomplishments she was made to fulfill her dream.Sara finally reaches her goal of graduating college and becoming a teacher. At her college graduation, she is awarded one thousand dollars for winning an essay contest by writing an essay titled “What College has done for Me”. As soon as she graduated, she bought a new outfit to wear when she was teaching. When she bought that outfit, for the first time in her life she felt successful and wealthy. She got a job at a school not far from where her family used to live, and she couldn’t help but think of her family and how they were doing. She went to visit her dying mother, who was so excited that she lived to see the day that her very own daughter had graduated college and become a schoolteacher. Sara’s father was not quite as happy to see her. He had disowned his daughter for leaving the family and not supporting him. After the death of Sara’s mother, Reb even wrote a letter to the principal of Sara’s school implying that the school should send part of Sara’s wages to him because she abandoned her father. Sara never did get out of her obligation to serve and take care of her father. The novel ended with Sara offering to let her ...
