Breath, Eyes, Memory: Ou Libere

Sophie's attack on the cane field was only given less than one page but it meant so much that it could not be put into more words.  There was so much emotion involved, too much to even understand no matter how in-depth she went.  The only thing in this section is the physical actions and vocal response from her grandmother and Tante Atie.  No emotion at all is written.  The reader is left to bring about the emotions in themselves.  Her mother is free from suffering and now it is Sophie's time to do the same on the same day as her mother's funeral.  

Her grandmother's response, as she has established, tells the reader that she knows what is happening.  She prevents the priest from stepping in and reacts like she is in the market.  "From where she was standing, my grandmother shouted like the woman form the market place, "Ou libere?" Are you free" (233).  Her grandmother knows what Sophie is doing is right.  How long has she know that this is what she needed to do?