Chapter Six - A Question of Faith -independence

"For the first time in my life I was truly independent --- of the Viet Cong and the village and the government and even our mother and  father --- and I liked the feeling very much (Hayslip 190)." As Le Ly's life changed, she became more independent each time. Her baby son was finally born and she was forced to move out from her sister's apartment. She was initially lost with no where to go but eventually had to find her own apartment. She seemed to like the privacy but it taught her how to be independent, with a baby and without her mother. My inference about the situation, is that being such a young mother would be very hard to handle. Being independent would come with hard responsibilities but it would also be didactic for me to learn how to be on my own.