Immigrants in Breath, Eyes, MemoryHaving to move to another country is not an easy task because you are leaving behind everyone you know since you were a little child. Sophie was experiencing this because now she has to drop everything and jump on a plane to find her mother from whom she only heard her voice. Haiti and Tante Atie were all Sophie knew, the freedom she had to run or just play with the children. across the street as the hot sun comes out. Aunt Atie for Sophie was the mother she always wanted; a mother who waited for her outside when she returned from school or a mother who told her stories when she couldn't fall asleep. That will soon change when the day plane tickets arrive and everything that was familiar to him will no longer be there. Sophie was now in a new country with a mother who was also new to her. She now mainly learns English while maintaining fluent Creole. But the hardest part is getting used to New York and your new environment because you can no longer run in the street and your parents work day and night. There is no more freedom until you become American (i.e. more independent and liberal) in your mother's eyes. I can relate a lot to this novel because I came to this country when I was eleven years old and I had to leave my country. my grandparents, my father and my friends left for a new life with my mother. It was a big change because I couldn't go out and play baseball with my friends anymore, I instead stayed home and played Nintendo. I couldn't speak with some people at my school because I didn't speak English and didn't understand the language. I had to work hard to understand and speak English, I always went to McDonalds and ordered food, it was a way for me to practice or volunteer to go to the deans office to drop off or pick something up . At first it was hard but my friends supported me but there were times when people tried to put me down because of my strong accent, at that time I wanted to lose my accent but I learned that my accent makes part of who I am..