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Quote #10
I took a step back, seeing near my whole self in the mirror. I pushed back my shoulders and raised my chin, my back straight as an arrow.
This mark stands for Isabel. (44.89-90)
Madam Lockton may have intended the I for insolence to be a mark of shame, but Isabel's newfound empowerment through Thomas Paine's writing inspires her to see things differently. Whether Madam is aware of it or not, what she intended as a painful punishment is actually a proclamation of Isabel's identity. She is not a slave named Sal, but a man's daughter named Isabel, who proudly can wear her mark just as her father did.